The canings were filmed in Seremban Prison near the national capital, Kuala Lumpur. In the 1960s, Soviet visitors to western schools expressed shock at the canings there. Its record on canings came to the attention of STOPP during the 1970s and 1980s. Canings are also administered in Drug Rehabilitation Centres. Canings were also phased out and the school embraced instead a new era of technology.