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The legal bureau of the Penang Gerakan branch is calling on the government to repel and abolish the ISA (Internal Security Act). In its place, the government should use an anti-terrorism legislation just like the one adopted by the United Kingdom. According to Ong Tun Heang, a member of the bureau, “Unlike ISA, which allows indefinite detention without trial, the UK anti-terrorism law only allowed pre-charge detention. Under pre-charge detention, detainees must be either charged or freed unconditionally after the detention period was over.” He added that “Under ISA, the detainees were not only denied a fair chance of trial to prove their innocence against any charges, they were also at the mercy of the executive. The detainees can be detained under the Home Minister's arbitration and the decision cannot be challenged. This is against civil liberty and human rights,"

He was speaking to online news media Malaysiakini on the twentieth anniversary of the infamous Ops Lalang where he also said “Gerakan adopted a resolution at the party national delegates' conference last year calling on the federal government to abolish ISA. However, Gerakan would also welcome an explicit review on the draconian act if the Putrajaya administration does not want to repeal it. We understand there was a need to have laws to prevent threats to national security and eradicate anti-national elements. Thus the party's first choice is for ISA to be repealed and be replaced with the anti-terrorism law implemented in Britain. However, if the government decides to review it, Gerakan wants the human rights principles of the UK law to be adopted under the amended ISA,"