Mat Rempit

Let's see what I can find from Wikipedia about the definition of "Mat Rempit"

According to wikipedia.org, A Mat Rempit is a Malaysian term for 'illegal street racer/racing' who rides a underbone motorcycle (Kapcai) or scooter. Mat Rempits usually race in a bustling city centre during weekend nights until wee hours in the morning. They are usually Malay age from 16 to 30 years old. But there also small number of Chinese & Indian also involve in this illegal street racing. Most of them in groups and usually no rewards waiting them.

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Well, usually I do not want to be called a racist (cos I am not). But what has the society done to the country? Now wikipedia is labelling our biggest population as the largest fleet of Mat Rempit 'racers'?

Let's see below the government has done to tackle the problem. They called it "Smart Community"

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Adapted from The Star
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/12/12/nation/20061212172504&sec=nation

Ministry hopes smart community programme will tame mat rempit

KUCHING: The Information Ministry wants its komuniti bestari (smart community) programme to reach out to the mat rempit (street racers) and engage them in more useful activities.

“All this while we have seen the mat rempit in a negative light. I hope the komuniti bestari can look at their positive side and come up with activities for them,” said deputy Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

He said the programme, started by the Information department to touch base with rural communities, could provide an opportunity to young street racers to take part in more positive activities.

Ahmad Zahid was speaking to reporters after a meeting with Information department officers here yesterday.

“If there are any mat rempit in any area, the komuniti bestari organisers must make efforts to bring them in so that they won’t be neglected by society,” he said, suggesting that they could hold legal motorcycle races for local youths albeit in the daytime.

“Then they won’t have to do it illegally at night,” he added.

Ahmad Zahid said he had directed the state Information department to set up three komuniti bestari projects in each of Sarawak’s 71 state constituencies to create a total of 213 such communities. There are 30 such communities at present.

He added that the ministry intends to have a total of 1,153 komuniti bestari programmes throughout the country by the end of next year. Currently, there are 457.

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Let's see what is the outcome from this project lah...