The move to allow public caning in Kelantan is meant to educate society against crime, PAS information chief Nasrudin Hassan said.

The PAS-led Kelantan government on Tuesday pushed through amendments to a syariah enactment, which among others, allowed public caning of syariah offenders in the state.

"People are more comfortable seeing wrongdoing committed openly than caning in syariah terms in public. They are worried tourists and investors will flee Kelantan. It's a strange way of thinking...