For the past 2-3 weeks, I’ve been adamant and kept on mentioning to my colleagues and siblings that I noticed seeing more foreign plate cars here. It made me so curious especially with the current suspension of cross-border activities. This was before the issue about jalan tikus blew up. What are they doing here and importantly how the heck do they get here?? Well yeah…there are exceptions for transport operators, runners and “transitors”, but the increase in the number of these foreign plate cars is unsettling to me and I’m not ready to just assume that these are all people with cross-border permits.

Even the transport operators and runners who are “granted approval” to enter the country “strictly” to just deliver the things they need to deliver then go back, no one can assure for sure that none of them made any detour for the toilet, the market, the side gerai or the kedai runcit. The same goes to the transitors. That blue and red foreign vehicle pass sticker thingy not only look like they are easily replicable, but also won’t do much to ensure that they make no stops while being here. Recently, the JPD informed about the issuance of 16 compound fines for offences related to the stickers, stopping short of specifying what the offences are.