An all-out effort will be made to eradicate the menace of motorcycle hooligans, colloquially known as mat rempit, from streets and highways in Selangor. Measures will include locating all unauthorised exits and narrow roads leading from housing estates to highways, commonly used by mat rempit as escape routes during police operations.
Damaged fencing along toll highways has also been used by these road recalcitrants as escape routes, and police are aware of this, calling all such exit points “rat holes.” This was said by Selangor traffic chief Supt Kamaludin Mohamad in a The Star report, with motorcyclists wanting to avoid confrontation with the law knowing where to run.
“We have informed the highway concessionaires – Besraya and Kesas – to repair damaged fences along the highway,” he said, in reference to locations where mat rempit commonly held their illegal races. According to Supt Kamaludin, mat rempit mainly comprised of youth – school-leavers, the unemployed or part-time workers.
“The police have ongoing campaigns and talks at schools and public universities, called Gempak Mufor, to educate youths about the dangers of street racing,” said Supt Kamaludin. He added parents should be aware of their children’s whereabouts and activities, especially late at night and in the early hours.
A zero tolerance campaign on road infractions in all 15 districts in Selangor has been ongoing since October 14 last year, Supt Kamaludin said. “The police are planning to use a new technology to catch the culprits during the next raid,” he warned.
From the beginning of the campaign to February 6 of this year, police issued summonses to 171,619 motorcyclists for not having a licence (54,507), no road tax (10,751), not wearing helmet (7,688), and for causing obstruction (98,673). In addition, the Road Transport department (JPJ) issued summonses to 533 motorcyclists over the last two weeks of the Chinese New Year break in three separate operations.
The police and JPJ will be collaborating in an effort to remove the mat rempit menace through regular raids, joint roadblocks as well as awareness programmes. “I believe that with educating the youths through our programmes, it will stop these mat rempit from racing on the road, endangering themselves and other motorists,” said Selangor JPJ director Nazli Md Taib.
“We try to rehabilitate those caught by educating them through various programmes to change them to be better citizens,” he said. What do you think? Are the authorities doing enough to curb illegal racing – both four- and two-wheeled – on the roads, or are stricter measures required?
Only way is to send parents to jail for the misdemour of their kids. If still continue, then send the kid to same jail as the parents. Then the parents have all the time to disiplin their kids.
One thing that turns on rempits is rempit-themed movies. So to catch them, produce and screen say, “Rempit Evo” starring some macho dude and cun awek(s). If the ticket is free, they will show up by the hordes. Setup roadblocks just before the midnight premier about to end. Then the question is whether polis has enough blackmarias and lockup space.
Can you educate gambler not to gambling?
Yes please, burn his house, beat his mother!
How about other states in the country?? This should be a nationwide initiative not just Selangor. Mat rempit is such a nuisance to the community and country. It must be stopped!
shoot on sight?
They did, but Choco BAR came to interfere and won the case. So how?
All these methods may not work. What needs to happen is to amend the Road Transport Act giving the police the power to confiscate and burn(destroy) the motorcycles. Also, imprison the motorcyclists under the penal code for a minimum period of 10 years.
Talk easy.
They have been talking about this for years. Nothing can be done until the root of the problem is sorted. And what is the root of the problem? It is corruption.
Currently all the rempit, when they are caught, they are happily released once the pdrm get their ang pau. This has been going on for years.
This is the reason why there are 3 million motorist in Malaysia with NO LESEN considering there are just 10 million motorist. This means 1 in every 3 motorist is ILLEGAL.
Do you know how the figure bloated to 3 million? Well 20 yrs ago it was few thousand only. Every year, polis catch and take ang pau. They release and the problem gets bigger and bigger and every year it grows. Until 3 million!
Until corruption is sorted out in pdrm and JPJ, nothing much can be done.
Principle of broken windows, re: NY in the 1980s. A way to tackle serious crimes i.e. armed robbery is to ensure all petty crimes are dealt with immediately with jail time. In Malaysia this would include tinted windows, loud exhausts, unapproved modification, etc etc. The absence of enforcement of law on these petty issues creates the illusion of no police power and leads criminals to be emboldened to try heavier crimes.
The mat rempit menace was not born yesterday, it has existed for such a long time that it has become a culture and worse, the image of our country.
“Tidak apa” attitude at the beginning from the government, parents and parties involved resulted into this uncontrolable scene today.
These rempits not only speed, they take drugs, they rob, they hurt people and they feel like king of the world.The “naughtiness” that they hv shown makes me want to chain them onto their bikes permanently, and naked, and slap them 1000 times everyday. How i wish..
But above is only my (and many people’s)imagination because I am not the law.
It is always GOOD NEWS when the police want to tackle this issue, in this case , to ERADICADE them.
I feel that educating students in schools etc is imparative, but this will take a long long time and we will not see results if the punishment side is insignificant. Walking a few kilometres with their bikes to police station, revoke licence, jail for one week etc are NOTHING to rempits.
From now on the police must instill FEAR into rempits, ammend existing law, or even create new laws specified for rempits such as make them listen to bike revving for 5 hous daily, make them sit, eat, sleep on their bikes daily for one year. These will REHABILITATE them more effectively than “talking to them”. Oh, please let the ARMY taking part of the enforcement because the police might be “out numbered”
Last but now least, mat rempits’ parents caretakers shall be educated, warned, punished (case by case) consistantly.
All these take time but let’s hope the NEW attitude and aim of the enforcement will sustain and stronger and stronger.
Two words – Yea, right
If they are serious, implement a shoot on sight during their operation against the mat rempits.
These mat rempit will return again once the effort stops. What we need is an ongoing law enforcement 365 day a year.
And what is the current punishment for mat rempits? No punishment? Caught merempit and then what? Release? This is the reason why mat rempit are like rats. They just won’t go away because there is no long term solution being imposed.
They need to be punished. License hold for 6 months, RM300 fine and serving 3 months of community service cleaning the streets while wearing a placard saying “I am caught for being a stupid mat rempit.” Hefty punishment and public humiliation is necessary for these scumbags.
These sampah masyarakat are like boys in highschool, don’t expect positive change without proper fear and punishment. They have no brains, period.
“Police to eradicate mat rempit menace once and for all”…just like government agencies gonna eradicate kedai Judi haram, massage parlour, illegal car plate, pot holes and corruption. YEAH RIGHT !
Is like teaching pigs how to climb treee
took a trip to Taiping last weekend and in the slow moving traffic around the Lake Gardens there’s still rempits doing wheelies. I just wished the BMW in front of me missed his brakes and knocked them down. Would’ve opened the window, took a picture & laugh.
I wonder if the summons that the police issued to these rempit-ers ever get paid by them. Do they even bother?
Perhaps the motorbike should be compounded until the saman is paid… or maybe their handphone. Some people value their handphone more than their lives :p
Talk only lah. Say want to eradicate mat rempit to pancing undi. After that, some youth leader will come out to defend the mat rempit because they are the “pelapis kepimpinan negara”.
At the end, people talk less about the petrol price.
– put a ban on kapchais using highways after all they don’t pay toll.
– Kapchais to have factory setting speed limit of 50km max.
Its difficult to see any real tough action will be taken. The mat rempits have family and friends who are voters, many of the mat rempits are of voting age too, although cannot imagine that they are responsible enough to exercise that duty. So at the end of the day what will be done is what is most popular to the most number of voters. The status quo will be maintained with just minor token actions.
IF they police can help eradicate these mat rempits and education can change them, then I say syabas and thank you! But don’t just stop in Selangor. These rempits are everywhere and they are a danger to the society. Heck, they can be dangerous to our fellow policemen also as they can be violent just to escape the law. However, in reality, I think the police has allowed them to grow out of control after all these years and it’ll take a big effort to stop for good.
Why only in Selangor and not natiowide? We have mat rempits in Penang too and just too many riding without helmet in Balik Pulau.
Mat Rempits are an unfortunate part of Malaysian culture. Even if you put them all in jail, their little brothers will be doing the same thing in two years time.
very old news. Heard this from pdrm about 8 years ago.
I see providing race track is the solution…. lots of it. Race anytime, open 24hrs a day. Track for rempit, dirt bike, gocart…
i dont think we can put a stop to it but surely we can move it to better safer location
Let’s do something radical. Amend the law so that any motorist who ran down a Mat Rempit won’t be charged and the onus must be on the Mat Rempit to prove his innocence.
Reason why they are kept these activities is
1- Lack of parents attention, parents kept on working 24/7 so no time for them. Parent provide moto to these kids and thought guna moto untuk study kat rumah kawan, senang pergi sekolah but their children guna moto untuk rempit. Parent also have to strict no moto, give basikal cukup. Now days kids as early as 10 years old ride kapcai like pelesit around kampung, residential area. Entah-entah parents dulu mat rempit also?
2- I am a biker so I also really irritate that this rempit acting like king blocking road riding in groups in highway at 130kmh++ fly like superman. I always wishing to see them to accident berterabur on the right lane.
3- I also have some friends who rempit at Bagan Ajam RnR every weekend and their answer why they don’t want to go to track? This is their answer : ” Masuk trek mahal bro, dah la trek pon x banyak, jauh lagi tu, kitorang x nk pon susah, bayar mahal. Pemimpin bukan dengar cakap kami, rembat duit kami lagi la. Buat la 1 negeri 1 racing trek pon cukup.” I believe less than 10 official racing track in Malaysia. Come on la make 1 track for each state. Can spend million for bola, badminton, how cannot spare sikit to provide place for them to lepas gian, show talent. I know that young voice like us will never be heard because our leaders always busy to rempit our money. Apa aku kisah pasal rakyat janji anak bini kroni senang.
Correct bro. Some of my friends who used to be mat rempit now are married and having child. Wonder what kind of person will they be.
Reason why they are kept these activities is
1- Lack of parents attention, parents kept on working 24/7 so no time for them. Parent provide moto to these kids and thought guna moto untuk study kat rumah kawan, senang pergi sekolah but their children guna moto untuk rempit. Parent also have to strict no moto, give basikal cukup. Now days kids as early as 10 years old ride kapcai like pelesit around kampung, residential area. Entah-entah parents dulu mat rempit also?
2- I am a biker so I also really irritate that this rempit acting like king blocking road riding in groups in highway at 130kmh++ fly like superman. I always wishing to see them to accident berterabur on the right lane.
3- I also have some friends who rempit at Bagan Ajam RnR every weekend and their answer why they don’t want to go to track? This is their answer : ” Masuk trek mahal bro, dah la trek pon x banyak, jauh lagi tu, kitorang x nk pon susah, bayar mahal. Pemimpin bukan dengar cakap kami, rembat duit kami lagi la. Buat la 1 negeri 1 racing trek pon cukup.” I believe less than 10 official racing track in Malaysia. Come on la make 1 track for each state. Can spend million for bola, badminton, how cannot spare sikit to provide place for them to lepas gian, show talent. I know that young voice like us will never be heard because our leaders always busy to rempit our money. Apa aku kisah pasal rakyat janji anak bini kroni senang
Bro. Its not like Gov dun wanna do. But even at proposal stage, them Oppolitikuses & their RBA macais start bashing like no tomolo.
Dun belip, go search the articles here in PT about the tracks in northern region & johor. Hentam’ed kaukau, bro. So deswai Gov is wary to come out something like this.
What abt those rats that run red lights, stop their vehicles on yellow boxes and pedestrian crossing. These happened any minutes of the day while mat rempits activities are not. Look at the jpj actions on emergency lane violaters. It is showing positive results. Enforcements must be carried on these areas of violation. Of course there are still some rats that chose to ignore the traffic law. Some of you readers MAYBE one of them.
There is a tried and tested method overseas. Confiscate and CRUSH! . Especially if caught illegal racing cars are confiscated and destroyed
About time the concerned authorities act on these vermins who are a menace to street users and society in general. They must come down hard on these good for nothing beings and then sentence them to hard labour and community work.
anyone wishes to donate sands and diesel, it’s fun to see all the bikers spin somersault flung from their bikes
No one can stop or hold human beings in their journey to break new records… What is being said and done in this article is only one side of the coin. The other side of the coin is that the government should better take care of the youth and in the issue of mat rempit, is to provide places where they can go and conduct their races. If caught racing on public road, Heavy fine or even those mototcycles should be withheld/seized for a period of time. But can the authorities really do it or will it be a case of” tak pe la..” Remains to be seen indeed…
PDRM…….cakap, cakap, cakap, cakap, cakap,….. so many years oredi.
So, what is new, anyway???
They should follow how japs almost kill off bosozoku aka japs rempit of the street aka confiscate motorcycles and crush,some heavy jail time and public humiliation
Now all that left are weird softy scooter gang but nowhere as notorious as their “ancestor” way back in the 80s and 90s
Blame HLY for selling 125z, Modenas for Dinamik and Kawi for Ninja RR.