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#driving licence
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International Driving Permit Malaysia 2026: RM150 at a JPJ Counter, and Why Your MyJPJ Licence Won't Work Abroad
An International Driving Permit from JPJ costs RM150, lasts exactly one year and is issued only to competent licence holders whose licence has more than a year left. Japan will not accept anything but the paper booklet, Thailand fined a Malaysian driver in July for showing only the MyJPJ app, and a RM20 physical licence card fixes most of it. Here is what to bring, where to go and what each destination asks for.
Your First Driving Licence in Malaysia 2026: JPJ Fixes the Price of Exactly One Class, and It Is Not the Car
JPJ publishes a fee for almost everything it touches. A learner licence for a car is RM30 for three months, a probationary licence is RM60 for two years, the theory test is RM27 plus 8% SST and a retake is RM17 plus 8%. Add every government fee a first-time car driver pays and it comes to well under RM200. The bill people actually pay is RM1,477 for a manual and RM1,577 for an automatic at one Melaka institute, because JPJ states plainly that it does not set driving institute prices. There is one exception, and one way to pay nothing at all.
Renewing Your Road Tax and Driving Licence Online in 2026 — and Why an Expired Licence Now Costs You at the Pump
An expired driving licence used to be a problem only if you were stopped. Since BUDI95 started paying RM1.99 a litre for RON95, it is a problem every time you fill up: the subsidy requires a valid licence, and the system checks it against your MyKad. Here is what JPJ actually charges to renew a licence, what road tax renewal requires before you can even start, and which channels still work now that JPJ has suspended MyEG as a collection agent from 5 October 2026.