Some 93,600 students all over Malaysia are riding motorcycles to school without a licence, daily, according to Road Transport Department (JPJ) deputy director general, Datuk Yusoff Ayub, The Star reports.
These unlicensed students make up about 80% of some 117,000 students in Malaysia who currently ride a motorcycle to school, he disclosed. According to him, most of these students ride without a licence because they had no one to send them to school as there is a lack of a school bus service in their area.
He urged parents to have their teenagers (aged 16 and above) enrolled in the MyLesen programme. “Every day, these students are exposed to danger as they have no proper knowledge about handling their machines, road safety and traffic regulations,” Yusoff stated.
Said programme will see participants learn to ride a motorcycle and allow them to have their B2 class licence (motorcycles under 250cc) for RM299. The normal cost for obtaining the licence – without going through the MyLesen programme – would be RM350.
Elsewhere, 186 senior citizens in Gelang Patah, Johor received their first B2 licence through the 1JPJ 1Community programme, which started in February and has now concluded.
Most of them Mat Rempits… but lousy ministry kuuuunan still let them race in closed kl street.
He can easily spend foreign donation, why not the students to ride without license?
Malaysia Boleh spirit man~~~
those caught without license, kasi sebat them 10 kali.
The figure is a lot higher than what is reported. Come to places like Tasik Prima and wow everyone rides without licenses and helmets with babies on the bike
because your area is a kampung area. cannot expect much such an ulu place.
Their parent should be held responsible. It is their child, and it is their motorbike.
As the head of JPJ you cannot go soft on this. Humanitarian grounds?
What is JPJ for ?
To maintain road safety amd ensure rules & regulations are abided.
Yes you can suggest these measures but in the meantime please enforce the rules and make sure you come down hard on these youngsters without licence.
They are endangering the lives of other road users too.
We don’t need fatalities to justify swift action.
Bad idea….so scared every time i saw student riding motorbike to school. The govt shud look at alternative (a better school transport option?) instead of allowing the young student to ride motorbikes to school…so heartless & dangerous to those young children!
Must revamp the curriculum for beginner bikers. A good example should be the UK own Compulsory Basic Training (abbreviated to CBT)
We could see that they also gives license to young rider as low as 16 as we do. Given that passing the basic test (equivalent to L here) they only allowed to ride 50cc bikes. Then when their reach 17 years old, then can go up to 125cc (restricted of course) after attending more advance classes and passing additional test
nowadays in bolehland, the initial license cost is high, the lax attitude of driving school operators in teaching proper riding etiquette also need to be questioned as well.. Bad parenting who lets kids ride around in tamans n kampongs also not good IMHO
The keyword here is education…. here’s hoping the profit from selling the F n V plates can be use by JPJ for the greater good of educating beginner riders to ride responsibly
Haha!! Spot on !!
no enforcement….PRDM knows about this all….
especially in rural areas… no insurance, just ride on…
Give a getski license to them (with a proper test).
Age qualiication 12 years old and above.
Getski 70cc MAX.
Follow similar to Japan
Bullshit Excuse. No licence? I used to cycle 5km to school everyday when I was 16. Took me only about 15 mins at a relaxed pace. 10 mins if I woke up late and peddled fast.
Ppl nowadays are so fat and lazy to exercise.
Because no penalty systems ….
Just give them free licence lah.Then start charging them to renew after finish school.Either ban totally motorbike,let them start using bicycle first.
Let these license-less riders crash-and-burn-rot-in-hell.