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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 how the MyJPJ app, MyEG and Pos Malaysia differ.
Every Malaysian Public Holiday Left in 2026 — the Official Dates State by State, the Long Weekends Still Bookable, and the 2027 Schedule That Just Landed
Ten gazetted holiday dates remain in 2026 after Maulidur Rasul, and only four of them apply to the whole country. We re-read the Prime Minister's Department's own schedule, the 2026 school calendar and the Holidays Act 1951 on 25 August — and found the 2027 federal list already published on the same portal. Here is what is left, what three days of leave still buys you this week, why Johor is no longer a Friday–Saturday state, and the mid-May 2027 window that turns two days of leave into nine days off.