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Malaysia crypto event drops Ms Pui Yi as DJ after backlash over adult-content past

The influencer and DJ was removed from the line-up after questions were raised over government branding associated with the event

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Siew Pui Yi DJing at a nightclub event in June. Photo: Instagram / ms_puiyi
Iman Muttaqin Yusof
A major Malaysian blockchain conference has dropped Siew Pui Yi, an influencer previously known for adult content, as the headline DJ for its official after-party after the country’s digital economy agency withdrew support.
The uproar tapped into a familiar cultural fault line in Muslim-majority Malaysia, putting the country’s push to promote itself as a regional technology and crypto hub in tension with conservative scrutiny of sexualised entertainment and provocative imagery.

Malaysia Blockchain Week announced on Monday that Siew, better known as Ms Pui Yi, would no longer perform at the event’s after-party on Thursday night.

“Following an update to our event arrangements, there has been a change to our Afterparty DJ line-up,” organisers said in a social media post. “MsPuiyi will no longer be performing as our headline DJ at the MYBW26 Official Afterparty.”

The announcement came after the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) said it had withdrawn its support for the event and ordered organisers to remove all materials bearing the name, logo or image of the agency, the Ministry of Digital and Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo.

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Neither MDEC nor the ministry had been involved in planning, approving or promoting the party, including choosing its guests, the agency said.

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