TEST centres for driving licences are widely known as hives of corruption. The so-called lesen terbang is bought and sold with impunity between those who want a driver’s licence without going through the rigorous tests, on the one hand, and middlemen who can bend the system, on the other. A problem long identified by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), it resulted in the e-testing system to be introduced in 2004, part of which is the theory testing on computers. Nonetheless, there have been many cases of fraud involving middlemen mainly from driving institutes and schools. It has been revealed that learner drivers will pay for someone in these driving learning centres to sit the test on their behalf. With computerisation came also the e-testing system that rely on sensors, cameras and other components for the physical test. According to inside information, the e-testing system is not fully implemented because of the prohibitive cost of putting it in place.
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