The Kejara driving licence demerit points system has been confirmed to receive a major overhaul, and the revamped system will be completed by the first half of next year, and enforcement components are scheduled for roll-out in the second half of 2026, transport minister Anthony Loke has said, according to a report by The Sun.
“Previously, if people didn’t pay their summons, the demerit points were never recorded. That defeats the purpose. You actually end up discouraging people from paying. At the end of the day, bad drivers were still roaming free without being penalised,” Loke told the news daily.
In order to enforce compliance, the revamped Kejara system will be fully integrated with the MySikap platform, and be dircetly linked to driving licence and road tax renewals, according to the report. “People who fail to pay after a certain period will be blacklisted. They won’t be able to renew their licence or road tax. Only then will the demerit system take effect,” Loke said.
The Kejara demerit points system will also be integrated into the MyJPJ mobile app, which will enable motorists to check their demerit points and receive warnings when they are at risk of licence suspension.
Among the biggest breakthroughs, said the transport minister, is the government’s success in securing the agreement from the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) to standardise traffic compound rates, a first in Malaysian enforcement history, according to the report.
From January 1, 2026, rates for traffic summonses will be uniform across agencies; there will no longer be periodic discount campaigns, and early payment of summonses will be rewarded, while late payments will incur the full amount, the report wrote.
“Never before have we had an integrated compound system. PDRM used to have their own rates and their own discounts. This reform has been long overdue. Without consistency, enforcement becomes ineffective,” Loke said.
A strict timeline has been imposed on the transport ministry and the road transport department (JPJ) for the implementation of system upgrades, vendor appointments, and backend integration, according to the report. “These are crucial issues. We cannot take too long. The internal processes are being sped up so that the revamped Kejara system is completed by the first half of next year and rolled out gradually after,” he added.
Regarding criticism of the 50% summons discount, the transport minister stated that it was a practical measure to clear years of outstanding compounds before the new enforcement efforts begin. “This is an amnesty period. We are not encouraging rule-breaking. I’ve already warned, come January, if there are still outstanding summonses, you will be blacklisted, Loke said.
In July, the overhaul of the Kejara demerit points system was confirmed by JPJ director-general Datuk Aedy Fadly Ramli to be in its final review stage, and who stated that the changes will take time to implement as it involves addressing legal aspects and making necessary amendments.
Loke agrees with criticism levelled at the Kejara system for being ineffective, and the transport minister believes the restructured demerit points system will finally deter serial offenders and take dangerous drivers off the road. “We are rebuilding it from the ground up. By next year, Malaysians will see a very different enforcement landscape,” the transport minister said.
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in febuary 2026 sure a lot of people will come in here pautan to write complain that they cant renew roadtax insurance because got outstanding saman
Do they actually care for this if the PMX will just be forgiving and give 70% diskaun on samans?
It’s useless. Many without road tax , insurance nor valid license still on the road. You have to fixed this first and foremost.
Yes. It’s true my honda civic hit by a motorcyclist who don’t have licence and roadtax. Already make report but repaired my civic using own money. I still see this man riding motorbike in my area. His motorcycle should be confiscated. This man says he unable to see the cars on road but still riding motorbike.
Yes. It’s true my honda civic hit by a motorcyclist who don’t have licence and roadtax. Already make report but repaired my civic using own money. I still see this man riding motorbike in my area. His motorcycle should be confiscated. This man says he unable to see the cars on road but still riding motorbike.
Ahlokor first stint as menteri under PH,now Madani…still hasnt implemented Kejora properly.What a joke…just pathetic..he doesnt deserve a pension.
Perhaps,he should quit and go full time selling SYIOK number plates.
When was Kejara launched? Which minister had made a proper implementation before Loke?
kejora wasnt started under Loke, its was some other minister project and now Loke has to finish cleaning someone elses shite
Puiihhh sembang!
To be fair to those who did pay before this and got demerit points, if all is revamped, start from clean slate.
This has been discussed for ages, even my child has grown from a baby to teen…. are we there yet, YB?
By the way, what’s the status of child seat mandatory implementation? Surely don’t need to wait for my teen to turn into working adult
a very good start chief.
good job !
make this plan a reality so that road users will be more careful when using the road.
Make sure those involved in accidents, multiple accident claims in a year get points as well. And better add more points in death accident cases. As well as road bullies. Even wrong parking.
I am pretty sure by end of 2026 half of malaysian drivers would be off the road for all different kind of road violations. Less vehicles mean better traffic flow, lower congestion, easier to find parking and less hectic for the majority people.
The demerit points or blacklist in fact is against our constitution without court judgment. It is forced driver or car owner to admitted committed offence when receive a “notice of offence”.
The notice of offence in fact is informing the driver“JPJ suspected you had committed a traffic offence under section XYZ”. If you admitted the offence you can come to pay a compound to settle the matter. If the driver not admitted the offence，JPJ only choice is to summon the driver to court to let the court to decide whether he had committed a traffic offence or not.
Now, the JPJ try to short cut to act as executive and also the judge by not allow those refused to admitted the offence to black listed them not to allow them to pay driving licence and road tax. This is not allow the citizen to use their own property; the car. This is an offence under Article 13 of the Malaysian Constitution.
It is time for all the drivers to form a defence organisation to sue the JPJ if they refuse the owner to pay road tax without a court judgment. This already having judgement and JPJ had paid large amount of compensation.
For your information.
Thank you.
You got the point. At the apps, there should be an appeal mechanism to reduce the procedure to the court unless it was not satisfied then the case can go on court could be better.
Most of the offends like speeding, not obey the traffic light with machine taken photo, those can be direct. However, we have have some cases, those motorists are using duplicate number plate… The saman will be issued directly to the genuinely car plate owner, the process to deal with this is timing consuming, and if they dont pay, their roadtax and license will be invalid, it is not a fair mechanism.
By the way, how about those company registered vehicles? point deduction to company? or driver? or directors?
Some cases can be interesting and common here, the father of family is the owners of 5 vehicles, wife, son, daughter, in laws all using those cars. in a short period of time, some of the family getting AWAS speeding tickets, will the owner license get backlisted ?
Some sharing for thoughts.
Cheers.
Is this new updates include all traffic offences summons (JPJ, Police & Local Counsels i.e., parking ticket from MBPJ, MPSJ, DBKL, etc.?)
If really include all above, many people that love to illegal park and proudly showing off their stacks of unpaid local counsels parking summons will need to do get their heart health screen right now, before they get a heart attack due to the amount to pay and losing driving license. hahahaha
it’s about time to make things right! kudos Anthony Loke!
Recent news, some supercar owners caught driving around without driver’s license , road tax and insurance. There are also many others with normal cars. Blacklisting will not affect them at all. They obviously don’t care.