Shop owners help basikal lajak kids stay safe


Diyana Ibrahim

Azrul Affendy Adenan runs community programmes with local basikal lajak riders to educate teenagers on safety. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, November 29, 2019.

EACH week, about 40 teenagers, most of them riders of the notorious basikal lajak, pack a small bicycle repair shop in Kuala Lumpur run by a man who objects to their hobby.

Akmal Asfar Mutalib disagrees with what these adolescents are doing with their bicycles, but he knows that alienating them is not going to sway them away from their dangerous past time.


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