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Wong, some of my family members also have some mistake in our mykad. What we did was we went to NRD, fill in a form, and got it corrected. However, there is a charge of RM10.

If NRD made the mistake in the FIRST place, why should WE pay RM10 to get it corrected?!?! This is daylight robberY!!

NRD has made errors in the past at the expense and inconvinience of the rakyat. Remember the Gender issue whereby the last digit denotes whether you are a male/female with the use of odd/even number? Well, for Mykad application, when a friend of mine who is well aware of his problem went to NRD to apply for his Mykad but the staff didnt notice any odd thing abt his IC number. Everything went on as usual. When he collected his card, to his horror he saw the word PEREMPUAN in front of his Mykad right smack underneath his male-ly photo. All in it took him 3 trips to get his Mykad corrected. First of cos u hv the usual Pegawai not in/ on leave crap. During that time the nude squatgate scandal was hot and my friend was jokingly telling them whether he needed to strip nude to prove his manlyhood. Having said this, it is the onus for applicants to check their details before leaving the counter as they do hv the reader at the collection centre, at least the centre where i took mine. This is what we call the 1st world infrastructure but 3rd world mentality workers. They just dont gv a darn abt their work quality. If it is wrong, then they expect YOU to be inconvinienced. IRIS shares are hot these few days. Any idea why? Anything got to do with the blunders these ppl are making in the issuance of Mykad?

That Bunny Suicides book sure looks hilarious enough! And it's in stock over @ Kino, am gonna swing by there tomorrow to get it! :) And sorry laa Jeff, won't be sending it to any Minister, it'll be my copy and mine alone, no $$, changing lifestyle lah!

/// Wong, some of my family members also have some mistake in our mykad. What we did was we went to NRD, fill in a form, and got it corrected. However, there is a charge of RM10. ///

streetz, what you said about the RM10 charge is interesting. Given the numerous errors that have been discovered, and the many more that have not been found, could these be deliberate errors so that such fees can be made?

If not, I have a business proposition for you. Let's take over the administration of MyKad. Deliberately foul up all the details. With millions of cards and RM10 per correction, just think how much money we can make from this.

And this is just for starters. These are genuine cards. How about some extra income by producing clones?

Any JV partners out there?

Wong,
They can be forgiven if your surname is 'Phua' coz they might be confused by watching too much of that across-the-causeway sitcom Phua Chu Kang. Afterall in reality, they knew that the funny guy is Gurmit Singh. But a Wong... hmmm do you wear a turban?

Jules, you are right its daylight robbery to charge RM10 for their mistakes, but stretch a little further.. its not about RM10, its denial of their own mistakes. When you pay the RM10, its like a penalty, it goes down on record like its your mistake... Perhaps, wide media coverage would force these incompetant civil servants to admit their mistakes.

Damn, now I regret not photocopying the form where you put down all your details. If I have such records, I would show this to them.

As if ONE mistake done in one family is not enough that they need to do THREE mistakes! All under Sikhism religion when the surname clearly states a chinese one. In one, even stated race as CHINESE. So how can a chinese has sikhism religion!

RM10 charge for correction is even more FRUSTRATING! Who made the bloody mistake in the first place. It is not that we keyed in the information ourselves.

TheWrathOfGrapes;

One blunder will result in one additional chip card sales for the supplier. Thay is why IRIS share price is on hot ;-)

Exactly Jules, we did not make copy of the original form. So, couldn't prove it's their mistake. Furthermore, that time this "flaw" is not that widely spread.

Maybe another "Little Napoleons" job.

Very scary, this will change racial composition in Malaysia very easily.
Do they "change" the race and religion info in purpose?

The mistake could probably because of the sino-native race. The "si" is common to "Sikhism" to these clueless workers in NRD.

My religion is listed as BUDDHA instead of Buddhism in mykad.I wonder if the data entry of these cards are privatised?

to be honest when my friend detected the mistake and was told to return another day to collect his card, he was all ready to gv them hell shld he be charged any fees. But luckily they amended it without any costs.

That's strange. How come race is not Malaysian?

so it is wise to buy IRIS now? What are the BUY factor we shld consider? More errors = BUY?

We need to ask the MOH/DG whether the NRD is adopting any ISO. If yes what happened to it? There should be a trace back to who are all the staffs involved in the process chain pertaining to the problem MyKad and investigate what was the problem and how they ratify the problem? Otherwise someone is sleeping on the job.

Or probably no ISO. Maybe have but for show only!

There must be quality check along the chain.

what about your passports? They too ahve chips, right? Wonder if the details there are correct.

Hmm....looking back....the ol blue ICs were the best!!

so singapore was right after all...we have idiots working in the NRD keying wrong info on our IC...so that is why our IC is rejected as entry pass.

despite all the many instances highlighted in the press about wrong info on our IC..it is still happening..why?

Well, not only because the word SINO is the cause of mistake, but even when race is stated as CINA, the religion is set as SIKHISM.

I'm only glad that they did not put it as ISLAM as many other non-Muslim has faced. And they need to go through a lot of trouble amending it like to clarify with Islamic department that they are not Muslim.

As for passports, wondering what kind of information is in there and whether they are correct too.

Maybe this is why Singapore is worried that they may be reading the wrong information. Perhaps even your name and IC number and address can be wrong!

Apparently, if you go back to the JPN center where you applied for MyKad, JPN will not charge you RM10.

BUT, if you go to a different JPN center, you will be slapped a RM10 "service" charge.

muahahaha they are rolling of the floor, laughing off their ars*

It should be renamed to MYFOOT. Somewhere someone is alreayd counting his money. What's MYCUT?

i think hedonism is right. We applied the kad in perak. got the mistakes corrected in putrajaya. damned! what a way to make money!

Hey, don't you guys get it? The UMNO led government needs a lot more Sikhs so that statistically Hindus will show a lower figure and they can then tell Samy to F Off because MIC does not necessarily represent all Indians and Indians therefore are only a negligible number. So you MCA guys can play ball or not?

Hokchiu or Hockchew is real. There are a lot of hokchiu in Sarawak, Sabah and Brunei. Sibu is hokchiu town. Fu-Chou in mandarin.

Well u r not the only one with wrong info. A pastor from a church in PJ decided to check his info on a reader and his religion was Muslim! Boy was he shocked!! The irony of it..

The whole idea of putting religion into identities card is STUPID in the fisrt. It whoever think of putting religion inside is a joker that NEVER USE THEIR BRAIN. What is the purpose? Anti-Terrorism?

Honestly, I don't blame the NRD stuff, because the idea is ultimate sutpidity. The more NON-ESSENTIAL,NON-IDENTICAL data entry, you will get more error. And slapping a RM10 administration, that is BOLEH!

correction, the 1st line should read as
The whole idea of putting religion into identities card is STUPID in the first place. Whoever think of putting religion inside the card is a joker

and Mykad also can act as ur license, debit card, etc. more input more errors. more job opportunities for graduates. in msia it takes 5 fellas to do 1 person's job. that's why we hv low unemployment rate.

Now, how do I know when my driving license expires?

I think, one day we may be required to carry a card reader ourselves, just to prove to the traffic polis that your driving license is valid when you are stopped. Another good business for selling the card reader.

I think, if I'm not mistaken, the gov intend to deploy card readers to the police officers.

Currently only selected areas the police have the portable card readers.

each policemen hv aeader? wow, i also wanna sell readers. got jln?

Recently I went to the NRD office in PJ with my wife to verify the data in our MyCard chips and to my horror this appeared on the card reader as far as my card was concerned - Marital status: Bujang and Religion: Buddha. I immediately objected to the data shown on the screen and the first thing the kind lady officer asked me whether I was truly married. The only thing I could do was to point to my wife seated next to me as someone married to me. Then I told her as far as Religion is concerned, there were two errors. First, I am not "Buddha" but a Roman Catholic, and secondly, Buddha is not a religion but referred to the Enlightened One (the one and only one). It should read "Buddhist" instead. I further told the officer that there can only be one Buddha and I didn't know I was annointed as another Buddha by NRD. What blunder?!

looks like a lot more issues will surface with the implementation of MYCARD nationwide for different purpose! BUY IRIS!!! It will shoot up the roof tomorrow!

Looks like IRIS has the sole monopoly into this business... buy buy buy

Hey people, if you happen to pop ur MyKAd into a reader and find out that u're Muslim then don't get all pissed off and rush off to get it changed. Instead, calm down, go apply for a housing loan before interest rates go up again, then walk into a housing developer office and book yourself a new home and get it for 7% off the list price...why get worked up for no reason, instead, work the system...:)

Thanks to the internet and thanks to Screenshots, we have the opportunity to share info and shoot those who blunder.

Previously, we relied largely on the mainstream media – newspapers, magazines, TV. Sometimes, they spinned you until you went groggy and fuzzy. And, it was difficult to identify the truths and investigate the wrongs.

There was a time when the media glorified the “Know Who” for connecting the right people together in business and industry. Who connected the various parties in the MyKad business? Can they or can they not do the job?

I wanted to say that Sikhism is a religion, like Islam, Christianity or Buddhism, and it is not the preserve of any ethnic group. Yes, it was founded by a Punjabi man in 16th century India and the majority of its adherents are Punjabis but increasingly there are many conversions from white and black communities. And there have been Chinese converts to Sikhism. I read here that, according to a recent census done in the UK, there are a total of 79 Chinese Sikhs in that country.

Although everyone within Sikhism is meant to be equal, hence the use of the surname 'Singh' to remove all indicators of caste (within the context of traditional Indian society), many Sikhs have kept their jati (sub-caste) surnames and instead accord Singh a kind of middle name status, e.g. Gurbax Singh Malhi, member of the Canadian House of Commons. So yes, a Chinese man with the surname Wong could still ostensibly be a Sikh.

By the way, I am not saying the NRD did not mess up in this case - I have absolutely no doubt that they did, seeing as how it the rest of Mr Wong's name probably did not contain anything remotely Sikh. I am just saying that everyone should chill out when it comes to this whole 'Chinese cannot be Sikh' business.

JEFF OOI says: You are barking up the wrong tree so I have to set the record straight. Reader Wong, in this specific case, is NOT a Sikh by birth or rebirth. I have stated clearly in my blog that I was shown proof. So, go sermon elsewhere.

Buddhist in English. Buddha or penuntut Buddha in Bahasa. Does that explain it? What the hell is penuntut anyway? Help Jeff!

after reading this blog, i did a check of 7 family members and neighbour. out of 7 chinese (buddhist), we have 2 religion stated as sikhism. we are no where near kota kinabalu. wonder how wide spread isthe problem?

JEFF OOI says: I am going to ask you do what I asked reader Wong did. Capture the Chinese Buddhists categorised as Sikhs on the TV image, and have the images sent to me. I will mask your critical info (IC Numbers & full names) to protect your privacy.

Same thing happened to my family members too. We all filled out the forms correctly, and we are very sure about it.

Don't they have a selection or drop down list to choose from (for religion) ? But again, they could have simply pick anything that they like. There's no accountability in them anyway.

the sickism has crept into NRD. Quick put these ppl under quarantine b4 they spread to other depts.

I just think that NRD do not double check details on the form as well as on the computer before they write it into the MyKad. Therefore, in other words, no quality control/assurance to ensure data is correctly entered. I would like to find out their Client Charter and see what they say about accuracy of information.

I've suggested to Jeff before, perhaps he can do a poll out of 10 Malaysians MyKads, how many mistakes are there? I'm assuming at least 5 or 6 out of 10 MyKads have mistakes.

I think its not only the information in MYKAD. When I registered the birth of my son, my husband (at that time) did not have his MYKAD. While the NRD officer was filling up the information into the system for my son's registration, she checked our race. We were shocked as much as the NRD officer when it showed my husband's race was listed as SIAM. My husband is not 'keturunan' SIAM and this was not even MYKAD yet. At least she made the correction because we brought our birth certificates. If not, my son would be listed as Siamese as well.

I put a dash in the religion section when filling up my Mykad application form. And the NRD used their discretion to choose a religion for me. And so, according to the NRD, I'm a "Buddha" now. While I'm flattered they think I'm a Buddha, I'm quite sure I haven't attained enlightenment, at least not yet. But seriously, does the NRD have a policy of not allowing anyone to go 'religionless' in this country?

did NRD employ data entry clerks to key in our details? Anyway to track which errant clerk took the whole nation for a ride with his/her blatant mistakes? Was it done on purpose? Are these clerks qualified in the first place? I understand that the govt need to tackle unemployment rate in msia but by hiring monkeys wont do. we are putting the whole nation at a security risk by employing these ppl. imagine the error is not just confined to religion or ethnic but something rather more mischievous like a criminal offence etc. cant the NRD track down who was the one who processed these cards? You think they bothered to look into that?

hey chulas, guess what, i checked mine too and like you, did not fill in the 'religion' space. They chose a religion for me. I am now a christian... hahaha... We have morons in JPN. Is it government policy that every person must have a religion?

Like I said, 5 or 6 (maybe even more) will have mistakes out of 10 MyKads.

Looks like its self generating information in your mykad now if you put blank in your form!

Maybe the 'everyone ought to have a religion' stance is a holdover from the Insurgency? After all, if you don't have a religion then you must be a Commie, innit?

Name:Ahmad Hafidz Bin Baharom Alam Shah

Religion: Kristian...

I don't remember converting....

*This was what came up as soon as I checked my MyKad once I got it...*

as long as my religion is not stated as one that'll require a judgement from the syariah court to change, i'm ok.... i better check....

Ayah Pin would be very happy if his I.C. stated his religion as Sikhism. :P

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... oh wait..i better check mine..

RE: Aput83

My goodness! Your name clearly shows that you are a Malay/Muslim, and NRD had put your religion as Kristian!? I wonder if NRD staff really look at what they are typing/selecting the religion and other information.

They are probably half asleep 80% of their time and just simply key in details.

my MyKad is the 1st batch, its got nothing behind it, no touch&go, ATM,driving licence, etc.
I try to check my details on the astro decoder it says the card is not supported.
now i wonder can i sent it in for so call update/upgrade? i wonder if i need to pay the RM10.

Is it possible the errors wre not due to typing error but more on database integrity due to design error (such as database normalization, key design, etc.)? The clerk maybe already typed correctly but during the production/printing of the card, wrong data were fetched.

I think Buddha is correct. In Malay language, Buddhism religion is refer to as "Agama Buddha" which means, religion by Buddha which is correct :D.
By the way, all details of MyKad for mine is correct.

Well,
for those who did not subscribe to ASTRO. You can get a portable MyCard Reader from Pejabat Pendaftaran for only RM25 per unit. Is battery operated, portable and good for you to check on yours and your family, and don't forget your friends too.

or you could go to the pejabat pendaftaran and get it checked for free.

instead of spending 25 bucks on the reader, you could use it to fill up your petrol tank

btw, prices rose to USD75 a barrel, and the government's keeping to their word of no price rise for this year...

wonder if next year's hike will reach 1 ringgit...

Double check on my sister in law's MyKad, there is a "TIADA AGAMA" option as her MyKad religion was tagged as "TIADA AGAMA"

Jeff, I would have it mail to you tomorow. Sorry for the delay.

I have neither a race or a religion!!!

My race = Tiada Maklumat
My Religion = Tiada Maklumat

heh cool!! I am from the Tribe of Tiada Maklumat

I got to find more of my brethen out there :D

hello? somebody? anybody? Is there any member of my tribe out there? or am I the only Tiada Maklumat tribe. I am sure there should be more of my people out there. We might even be a majority :D

Heh I won't be surprised if anyone got entered Beer as their religion :D that would be uber cool