Transport Minister Anthony Loke had just announced that starting today, Malaysians will no longer need to carry around a physical copy of their driver’s licence nor do they need a physical copy of their road tax for their own personal vehicle. Instead, motorists can simply download the MyJPJ mobile app to obtain digital copies of their road tax and driver’s licence.
This has perhaps lead to a wave of drivers downloading the MyJPJ app onto their smartphones and trying to to sign up for the platform. However, it seems that there may be one too many Malaysians trying to access the MyJPJ app. Here in the SoyaCincau office, a number of us are unable to get pass the signup screen, with many of our readers also relaying the same experience.
We’ve contacted Anthony Loke’s office for comment on the matter already, and we were informed that the MyJPJ app is actually being handled by the Road Transport Department (JPJ) rather than the Transport Ministry themselves. Indeed, when you first open the app, on the loading screen it says Jabatan Pengakutan Jalan Malaysia on the bottom of the loading page. Similarly, the FAQ section in the app also says that the app was developed by JPJ.
Besides, it seems that they sort of expected this anyway. During the press conference, the Transport Minister noted that he expects plenty of Malaysians to download the MyJPJ app and sign up for it, leading to technical issues. He wants the public to remain calm, and that they won’t get summoned for not having their digital copies ready anyway. Instead, just take your time to download and use the app whenever it’s available.
Nevertheless, in the meantime we’d probably recommend you continue to keep your road tax stuck on your car instead of ripping it off, as well as to keep your driver’s licence with you until you can actually access the MyJPJ app. Loke had also mentioned earlier that for those of you who don’t want to make the shift to a digital copy just yet, it’s perfectly fine to keep your physical road tax and driver’s licence with you for now. If you do want to check out the MyJPJ app though, you can download it from the Google PlayStore, Apple App Store and the Huawei AppGallery.
It’s worth noting that if your vehicle is company-owned or registered under a non-citizen by the way you will still need to display its road tax. If you have a learners driver’s licence, a vocational driver’s licence or you’re a foreigner with either a Malaysian driver’s licence or a foreign driver’s licence, you’re still required to carry around your physical driver’s licence. For more about the move towards a digital copy of your road tax and driver’s licence, you can read our article on it here.
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- Anthony Loke: JPJ no longer requires physical road tax and driver’s licence for private vehicles
