Aussies stripping down to Jalur Gemilang briefs face stern legal action in KL

He said the police had been asked to look into other law provisions with sterner punishment that could be taken against those men, apart from charging them with public indecency charge.

"(This is because) they didn't do it for fun...there must have been a hidden political agenda.

"In the very basic, they will be charged with public indecency, but as public indecency charge will not put them in jail for long, we are also looking at other laws which they may have broken that can provide for a sterner punishment."

He said this to reporters after attending the International Conference on Financial Crime and Terrorism Financing 2016 here today.

The deputy minister, however, said he was confident that the legal action taken against the Australians would not affect the bilateral ties between Malaysia and Australia.

"The activity of these several individuals will not affect out bilateral ties. This is because 99.99 per cent of Australian visitors to Malaysia did not behave like that.