The police are looking to include environmental legislation as another method of dealing with Mat Rempit, according to a report by NST. This is in addition to laws on dangerous driving and drugs that are currently being used to tackle the issue.
Police deputy director, Superintendent Mustafa Bakri Salleh, said the department would engage the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry to hold Mat Rempit liable for noise pollution. Under the law, generated noise beyond 75 decibels (dB) is considered as pollution.
He also stated more spot checks will be done under Op Samseng Jalanan, where the authorities would check for modified machines with exhaust pipes that are deliberately altered to induce loud noises.
A technical team from the ministry, which would be part of the enforcement team, would carry out on-the-spot tests for action to be taken under Section 23 of the Environmental Quality Act 1974. Under the act, offenders can be slapped with a maximum fine of RM100,000 or jailed not more than five years, or both.
However, Mustafa noted there was a loophole in the law which allowed Mat Rempit to reclaim their modified motorcycles once the legal process was concluded. “Seized modified motorcycles are usually returned to the offenders’ families. We usually advise the offenders’ family members to restore the bikes to the original specifications,” he said, adding that there are no plans to review the Road Transport Act 1987.
Offences under Section 42(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987 carry up to five years’ mandatory jail and fines between RM5,000 and RM15,000. Mustafa also added the police relied on Section 279 of the Penal Code when dealing with Mat Rempit, which carries a maximum jail term of six months, a RM2,000 fine, or both.
The Mat Rempit issue was reinvigorated when Sultan of Johor Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar voiced his disapproval with motorcyclists who used the stretch in Jalan Pantai Lido in Johor Baru as their race track. He said the actions of these individuals caused patients at the nearby Sultanah Aminah Hospital to suffer sleepless nights due to the loud noises from the modified motorcycles.
“The Mat Rempit culture will continue as long as parents don’t play their vital roles in monitoring their children. The culture has been passed on from generation to generation. They do what they do for cheap thrills and to show off their skills doing wheelies, superman (lying on the stomach while riding) and scorpion (the rider stands on one foot during a wheelie),” said Mustafa.
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Pdrm talk a lot. Even motorbikes using car lanes on federal highway also they cannot control. Yes even before bike lane repair works
Even daily hundreds of thousands motobikes beat the red light in front of the polis officer also they cannot control.
See who the majority of rempits are. They need education.
We must educate this young people to work hard in life and not go racing in kesas at night
Come on. U cannot tangkap rempits… U need their votes
What are you talking about education? How about better parenting? That’s where it all starts.
How to parent when there are so many kids?
Msia need bigger population & foreign workers + family.
If cant control too many kids in the family, then plan your family dont have too many kids!
To me road safety starts at home and how you as parent educate your kids and monitor them.
root cause of the problem is broken family and families with 6 to 12 children. Father and mother both working. How to attend to 12 kids?
https://paultan.org/2017/02/13/najib-approves-rm30-million-allocation-to-build-new-race-track-in-kedah/
Motorsports not illegal racing.
Work is not on the agenda , for them everything must be Pree…
Bro Rajoo..
Those bikers have no choice but to danger their life sharing with car on Federal Highway because the bike lanes is now undergo some upgrading. The next time when you and others users drive on Federal highway please be more care full. Please don’t blame the bikers ya… Go F*&# the Federal Government.
Thank you
saman them but they got money to pay or not?
That’s what the jail is for, and black mark for employment if background check.
should curb this problem from the root cause. One man can only marry one woman.
The problem is, one man marry so many wives and each wife got few kids from the same man. So, where the father can look after like 20 kids?
Parents must pay own kids crime so no problem.
start phasing out/ban all underbone motorcycles asap, replacing it with electric moped which has max speed of 20 km/h.
hahaha, it won’t work. They will just change to bicycle
change to basikal lajak………
Many pipu love watching them doin their wheelie and “wikang” skills @ Raja Laut. Once rempits pulled off the tricks, the crowd cheered and roared. But other unlucky motorists got caught between revving kapcais and fearless riders.
and in Singapore, the students and youths there are studying hard.
Lol are u kidding? 100k? U fork out their whole fortune will be less than 1k
Deliberately altered, means harley, Indian bike or other manufacturers that comes stock exhaust would not be penalised right.
Any loud annoying machine, including expensive but irritatingly loud low-class scumbag rides such as big bikes and fast modified cars (doesn’t matter if it’s an Iswara with Wai Heng exhaust or Nissan GTR with Akrapovic exhaust), should be affected by this law. But, instead of just returning these machines for rectification works, the machines should be seized for destruction as scrap metal.
If the police thinks that RM 100k fine would scare mat rempits, they are sadly mistaken. Mat rempit is a social ill, same like baby dumping and drug abuse. It needs to be dealt with from the root of the cause: broken family.
The problem lies in good education. Or in this scenario, severe lack of it. Kurang belajar.
What about akcrapovic exhaust or other brand which is ‘legal’ and its sound is bombastic. Gerard Lye.
Any loud exhaust system, whether from Cheras exhaust shops or from Akrapovic, should be penalized.. because people who drive and ride with loud exhaust systems are 100% guaranteed to be inconsiderate a-holes and should be equally penalized by the law whether they’re a mat rempit on a stolen bike with straight-pipe exhaust or a millionaire in a BMW with an excessively loud branded exhaust system.
Catching mat rempit also big problem want to talk like superman
The problem can be solved easily with maximum effect: burn the motorcycles, jail them for 20 years. Difficult?
Just amend the Road Transport Act
Hearing the same thing every 5 years.
What about Proton Saga potato launcher exhaust edition? That car is unnecessarily loud? Maybe fine Proton for producing such noisy car, per car RM100k?
These mat rempit problems started more than a decade ago. Caused numerous accidents. Life lost. broken family. Damaged properties.
Now only PDRM wanna deal with such problem?? hello…..
The Mat and Minah Rempits do not fear the law for they have “special” status in the name of their religion and race.
Do remember to properly enforce the law.
Yeah saman all those noisy lorry mostly with kelantan stickers all over. Seriously, they are noisy as hell
Include the tortoise in fast lane
Some superbike and sport cars also produce super crazy noise..
The difference is that superbikes and supercars are actually fast. While rempits are obnoxious ricer sounding fart cans that are slow.
The Mat Rempit culture will continue as long as instill correct moral values.
Mat Rempit are wasted resources, how to utilise?
It supposed to be dealt with ages ago !!
Stop giving out such nonsense statements every 5years!
It doesnt need fine , jail and education.. everytime when mat rempit get caught just SITA & SCRAP the motor, motor is the main issue here, without the object (motor) the human do nothing!
they should stop motor shop from selling those noisy exhausts. and banned all import of such exhaust.
stop selling those bikes below 250cc, encourage public transports usage and it’ll lower accident rates
it wont end until first action taken
heavy fine on the jumping red light motorist first before do the talking. majority of them ride motorcycle like their granparent owned the road!
100k fine?? Good luck getting a single cent of that if this actually gets enforced. BS if you ask me.
Ban all the motorcycle, no motorcycle no mat rempit
Draw up a few city areas and restrict them with entry of electric motorcycles only. Give 2 yrs of time so that people can slowly change their petrol bike to electric. Less noise and air pollution. Less or even no rempits will be in town make the city cleaner and more peaceful.
That’s just cruel!!! How the he** do you expect they gonna pay that huge sum of money. I know mat rempit is hated but once I hv an accident the only guys that helped me was the mat rempits ,other tengok jer. After that incident i never judged people by their appearance or first impression.