Thai cabinet approves new rules to ban students from ‘indecency’ and ‘inappropriate’ displays of affection

[webfact]

New rules ban students from ‘indecency’ and ‘inappropriate’ displays of affection

By Kornrawee Panyasuppakun 
The Nation

 

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The Cabinet has approved the Education Ministry’s new regulations banning students from holding public gatherings, “inappropriate” displays of affection and causing public nuisance.
 

The new regulations, which will be implemented after being published in the Royal Gazette, is a revamp of the 2005 regulation on students’ conduct that warned students against public displays of affection and causing a public nuisance at night.

 

The new regulation now also forbids public assembly likely to disturb order or go against morality, inappropriate acts of affection and obscenity in private and public places, and causing a nuisance. 

 

Education Ministry spokesperson Chalam Attatham said the 2005 regulation had to be revised in line with modern society and to close some loopholes.

 

 It aims to better protect students and promote acts that are appropriate and socially responsible. He said that though student behaviour seems to be improving, with fewer cases of them engaging in brawls, “[the new regulations] will give schools and authorities a tool to oversee their students”.

 

Meanwhile, Montri Sintawichai, director of the Child Protection Foundation, said: “What students need is not punishment, they need help. 

 

“If a student is at risk of or is engaged in acts of sexual intimacy, apart from alerting the school or parents, we will also need good measures to help [them] continue their education and prevent such acts in the future,” he said. 

 

Montri said a public assembly that may cause indecency and public nuisance is too broadly defined, as it could include singing or playing the guitar loudly.

 

Warat Phrueksakulnan, the director of Bureau of Scout Movement, Red Cross Youth and Student Affairs, said in an interview with Kom Chad Luek, that kissing the cheeks of a member of the opposite sex or embracing them is “inappropriate”. 

 

Warat added that authorities overseeing student conduct should deter students from such acts by conducting random patrols at risk-prone areas every month and keeping a close watch during events such as Valentine’s Day. 

 

Some students, however, find the regulations too intrusive. 

 

Piyamanida Tumcha from Chulalongkorn University said the regulation infringed on her rights. “What if I like skateboarding, but people in my neighbourhood say it causes a public annoyance, am I banned from it?” she said. 

 

She also questioned how the regulation could be enforced effectively, especially the ban on physical affection in public and private places. “If it is done in private, I wonder how it harms the public? Also, if it is done in private places, how can they know and enforce the regulation?” she asked.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30352327

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-08-17

[Thailand]

Oh dear, how sad.

[darksidedog]

Ye Gods! Just when I thought the depth of stupidity couldn't be plumbed any deeper.

If the kids follow it through to the letter, there will be no Thai people in a  couple of generations.

[robblok]

2 minutes ago, Thailand said:

Oh dear, how sad.

This is a few steps back in the wrong direction. That is what you get when got dinosaurs in charge. 

[ThreeEyedRaven]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Warat Phrueksakulnan, the director of Bureau of Scout Movement, Red Cross Youth and Student Affairs, said in an interview with Kom Chad Luek, that kissing the cheeks of a member of the opposite sex or embracing them is “inappropriate”. 

Another clown from a bygone era failing to understand what year we are living in.

[Samui Bodoh]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Warat added that authorities overseeing student conduct should deter students from such acts by conducting random patrols at risk-prone areas every month and keeping a close watch during events such as Valentine’s Day. 

Sanctioned, legal, morality police.

 

What could go wrong?

 

Shouldn't we also be talking about caning as a punishment?

 

Jesus wept...

 

[Eligius]

'Causing a public nuisance' ...

 

Well, the biggest, most mammoth 'public nuisance' in Thailand at the moment (and for the foreseeable future) - is the 'government' itself!

 

Edited August 17, 2018 by Eligius

[madmitch]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

Education Ministry spokesperson Chalam Attatham said the 2005 regulation had to be revised in line with modern society

Modern society? Sounds more Victorian to me, though perhaps that is modern to those in charge!

[Bluespunk]

This is some massive prank, yes?

 

They cannot seriously mean this moralistic BS.

Edited August 17, 2018 by Bluespunk

[Eligius]

2 minutes ago, madmitch said:

Modern society? Sounds more Victorian to me, though perhaps that is modern to those in charge!

Indeed. Even mediaeval notions are - in the junta's minds (and I use the word 'minds' loosely) - positively cutting-edge, futuristically modern!

 

Edited August 17, 2018 by Eligius

[PatOngo]

Divide and conquer...……….would seem someone missed out big time when they were a youngster!

 

[Darcula]

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

The new regulation now also forbids public assembly likely to disturb order or go against morality, inappropriate acts of affection and obscenity in private and public places, and causing a nuisance. 

In the words of the Buddha "all those things are haram".

[Bluespunk]

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

Education Ministry spokesperson Chalam Attatham said the 2005 regulation had to be revised in line with modern society 

These rules are about as far from modern society as it possible to get. 

 

Ludicrous behaviour. 

[Eligius]

1 minute ago, Bluespunk said:

These rules are about as far from modern society as it possible to get. 

 

Ludicrous behaviour. 

I know, Bluespunk. It's just incredible, isn't it? I always think surely the junta cannot do anything else to make themselves look ridiculous and jurassic - and then they come out with stuff like this. 

 

Just unbelievable. 

 

I hope the students all over the land will show the Authorities what they think of such 'regulations'!

[jvs]

So lets say a typical 16 year old,is a student.

Another 16 year old who is not going to school anymore.

How to tell the difference between these two?

Different rules for them?

How about making sure teachers do not have sex with their students anymore?

This country needs a serious wake-up call!!!!I hope the people will take advantage of the upcoming election and get rid of this old bunch of rulers.

 

[Eligius]

The more I look at this, the more mind-blowingly ridiculous it becomes. It actually says that even 'inappropriate acts of affection in PRIVATE PLACES' are forbidden!

 

What complete and utter idiots these people are.

[thaiguzzi]

18 minutes ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Sanctioned, legal, morality police.

 

What could go wrong?

 

Shouldn't we also be talking about caning as a punishment?

 

Jesus wept...

 

Siam Arabia?

[Eligius]

'Warat added that authorities overseeing student conduct should deter students from such acts by conducting random patrols at risk-prone areas every month and keeping a close watch during events such as Valentine’s Day.'

 

One really would think that ideas like these must be part of some massive hoax - a leg-pull. My God! 'Random patrols' at 'risk-prone' times such as Valentine's Day?!!

 

And the joke of all jokes is that all this nonsense is emanating from what is (in reality - not in Fantasy Land) the brothel of the world - Thailand. 

 

Talk about an utterly schizoid society. It just goes way, way beyond my comprehension.

[quadperfect]

And yet we are still talking about the sex capital of the world.

Reading the news in thailand is so funny. So much bark and no bite.

Grow up.

[wgdanson]

47 minutes ago, webfact said:

Also, if it is done in private places

I only ever kiss my missis in private places !

[robblok]

I just pity the foreigners with a uni-girl fetish.. just imagine they pick one up at a school girl themed a go go ... the horror... they will be arrested.. deported... This is the end.. the sky is falling. 

[CGW]

I wonder if they are dreaming up these new rules from the 100s of massage places they frequent?

[sammieuk1]

Warat added that authorities overseeing student conduct should deter students from such acts by conducting random patrols at risk-prone areas every month and keeping a close watch during events such as Valentine’s Day. 

 

The trouble is that the generals are so old and corrupted its perfectly normal in their heads to implement absurd rules and laws on an hourly basis . This will end up a pervs charter for the random patrols for sure?

[overherebc]

47 minutes ago, ThreeEyedRaven said:

Another clown from a bygone era failing to understand what year we are living in.

?

Could LBGT members read that as kissing the cheek of a member of the same sex is ok and does it include lower and upper cheeks?

Just askin'

[Get Real]

Seems to me like the story continues. Morons Breed Morons II: Inapropriate Behaviour

[Vacuum]

1 hour ago, darksidedog said:

If the kids follow it through to the letter, there will be no Thai people in a  couple of generations.

Perhaps they just don't want 16 year olds to get pregnant?

[rkidlad]

I actually agree with these laws. The sight of young people being happy and showing affection and love towards each other just reminds me of how miserable, unhappy and lonely I am. And this will not do. I will not be made to deal with my own issues. If I'm unhappy, everyone else should be, too. 

Edited August 17, 2018 by rkidlad

[madmitch]

1 minute ago, Vacuum said:

Perhaps they just don't want 16 year olds to get pregnant?

Many Thais remain students until their mid-twenties. Start at 19 or so, 4 year courses, an extra year or two as they decide one course is too difficult so change to another, then an extra year for an additional subject. What do they get at the end? A piece of paper worthless in most of the world, a nice photo of themselves getting presented with a certificate by a member of the Royal Family to put on the wall, and now all after a sex-free, intimacy-less existence during their formative years ?

 

 

[seajae]

what they need to do is have decent sex education courses in the schools so the kids are more than aware of the consequences of unprotected sex etc. Teaching them to actually think for themselves would also help rather than just accepting what they are told but then when the kids realize what the govts are doing to them they may well stand up for themselves and tell the govts no, better to have kids with no thoughts of their own so the govts can do as they please so they will keep controlling them

[CGW]

5 minutes ago, seajae said:

Teaching them to actually think for themselves

Not going to happen ?

Can you imagine the chaos ?