No students or teachers were involved in a dinner held at a school hall recently, where some attendees were “drunk”, and ended with over a dozen arrests, said Pekan Nanas assemblyperson Tan Eng Meng.

He told Malaysiakini that he was present last Friday to officiate the event, which was a fundraiser for a temple, and where alcohol was served and also auctioned off.

“It is common in a new village to have...