Event organisers have been told to abide by entertainment guidelines issued by the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim), after public outcry over a viral video of South Korean K-pop band B1A4 members hugging and kissing tudung-clad female fans during a recent concert.

Its director-general Datuk Othman Mustapha said the incident had "shamed Malaysia and the Muslim community" and urged concert organisers to weigh both the positive and negative implications before organising an event.

Jakim had issued an Islamic guideline on entertainment in 2007 to be referenced by event organisers and agencies before conducting their programmes.

Othman said Jakim had not been informed of this concert and had no knowledge of it.

He also questioned if the organisers were diligent in following these guidelines.

"The concert organiser must bear responsibility and not indemnify themselves.
"Any event that contravenes Islamic morals and the cultural decencies of Malaysi
ans should not be allowed to take place," Othman said in a statement on Monday.
He said the Federal Territory Religious Department (Jawi) had been instructed to take necessary action as the concert was held in Kuala Lumpur.

He said that Jakim was ready to cooperate with the Foreign Artists' Film Screening and Performance central agency (Puspal) when it summons the concert organiser to explain the incident.
Othman also advised the younger generation preserve their self-respect and not allow themselves to be taken advantage of by their idols.

"There is no such thing as personal right or freedom in doing something that violates Islamic principles.

They should have a sense of shame, and covering themselves with the proper attire is a way to hide that shame," he added.

A three-minute video clip of the South Korean band's members hugging and kissing female Malay fans on stage went viral on social media on Sunday, prompting criticism from Internet users.

The concert organiser, TGM events, has since apologised for the incident and said in a statement that the female fans had gone on stage willingly.

The company also said it had never nor would it ever condone any form of sexual harassment or molestation during its events.

Indonesian navy divers on Monday retrieved the black box flight data recorder from an AirAsia airliner that crashed two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board, a government official said.
Flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control in bad weather on Dec. 28, less than halfway into a two-hour flight from Indonesia's second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore.

"At 7:11, we succeeded in lifting the part of the black box known as the flight data recorder," Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, the head of the National Search and Rescue Agency, told reporters at a news conference.

The second black box with the cockpit voice recorder has been located, based on pings from its emergency transmitter, but not yet retrieved, Madjono Siswosuwarno, the main investigator at the National Transportation Safety Committee, told Reuters.

Officials hope the black boxes, found near the wrecked wing of the plane, will reveal the cause of the crash. The national weather bureau has said seasonal storms were likely a factor.

The recorders are expected to be taken to the capital, Jakarta, for analysis and it could take up to a month to get a complete reading of the data. Officials did not provide details of the condition of the black boxes.

"The download is easy, probably one day. But the reading is more difficult ... could take two weeks to one month," Siswosuwarno said.

Over the weekend, three vessels detected "pings" that were believed to be from the black boxes, but strong winds, powerful currents and high waves hampered search efforts.

Dozens of Indonesian navy divers took advantage of calmer weather in the Java Sea on Monday to retrieve the flight recorder and search for the fuselage of the Airbus A320-200.

Forty-eight bodies have been retrieved from the Java Sea and searchers believe more will be found in the plane's fuselage.

Relatives of the victims have urged authorities to make finding the remains of their loved ones the priority.

"All the ships, including the ships from our friends, will be deployed with the main task of searching for bodies that are still or suspected to still be trapped underwater," Soelistyo said, referring the multinational force helping with the search and recovery effort.

Indonesia AirAsia, 49 percent owned by the Malaysia-based AirAsia budget group, has come under pressure from authorities in Jakarta since the crash.

The transport ministry has suspended the carrier's Surabaya-Singapore licence for flying on a Sunday, for which it did not have permission. However, the ministry has said this had no bearing on the crash of Flight QZ8501.

President Joko Widodo said the crash exposed widespread problems in the management of air travel in Indonesia.

Separately on Sunday, a DHC-6 Twin Otter operated by Indonesia's Trigana Air crashed on landing at Enarotali Airport in Paniai, Papua.

Strong winds caused the aircraft to roll over, domestic news website Detik.com reported, with no injuries to the three crew members on board. The plane was not carrying any passengers.