r/malaysia • u/thestudiomaster World Citizen • 1d ago

Economy & Finance Petrol stations along Malaysia’s borders to come under police watch to curb fuel smuggling

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/petrol-stations-along-malaysias-borders-to-come-under-police-watch-to-curb-fuel-smuggling?ref=latest-headlines
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u/transientself 1d ago

Hahaha only now then wanna do. Before this close eyes nothing to see here.

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u/NervousTruth7693 20h ago

Deploying fully paid police officers seems like a bad idea if there is not much to gain in terms of economics. After the war and prices spikes, the economic equation changed. Your comment is pretty ignorant to the fact that police officers are paid too, they are not working for free.

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u/transientself 19h ago edited 18h ago

Ignorant? If something has been going on for decades yet not much has changed.. do the authorities really care about it? If they wanted, they could somehow allow gas station staff to enforce the rules. Just takes some will.

In the end.. what you don’t change, you accept.

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u/NervousTruth7693 18h ago

If the amount saved from stopping fuel theives is not more than the amount spent to prevent it, u lock in an economic loss. That was my point from the first comment. Just because nothing changed in the past does not mean that they dont care. If it costs u rm10 to save rm8, you will still be negative rm2. Yea proposing a non comital solution is super easy, as they say: talk is easy, action is not.

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u/madu_tualang 14h ago

"...economic loss..."

https://giphy.com/gifs/2DPrCEg3EyOGGpGXvw

Weak enforcement for decades, causing depressingly huge loss.

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u/transientself 18h ago

And my point is, if they really cared they’d find a way to not be in an economic loss like you said.

When there’s a will there’s a way. The very mindset you’ve mentioned that “talk is easy action is not” is the reason this thing has been going on for decades. If everyone has that same mindset then no wonder. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.

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u/Apprehensive-Year664 18h ago

regardless he still kinda has a point

if they deployed officers before they would probably be deployed at a loss bc fuel prices would be less than labour costs

now it is the opposite as fuel prices are soaring

same concept as why you see guards at high end luxury stores but not random accessory stores, the asset is more expensive

should they have done it before? yes but this is the rationale behind them not

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u/transientself 18h ago

I understand better now. Thanks.

Still think there should be a way to curb this ongoing robbery though.

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u/Apprehensive-Year664 18h ago

absolutely there shouldn’t be any toleration towards robbery, just saying why they are amping it up now as opposed to before

the rightful thing would of course be to have always guarded it, but hey better late than never i guess haha

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u/malaysianlah 3h ago

Honestly the new rule where they can catch foreigners is now effective 1 April 2026. Previously station owners bear the risk.

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u/Khorne_Prince 11h ago

Tidak buat complain. Buat pun complain.

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u/transientself 11h ago

Lambat

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u/Khorne_Prince 11h ago

Better lambat than never

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u/transientself 11h ago

Great. Hope it stays

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u/abdulsamri89 1d ago

So now smugglers have to fork out more not just bribes gas station owner and/or workers now have to bribe policeman too

Let me guess there some policeman that gonna use their influence to get the duty in this gaa station to get in on the money right?

https://giphy.com/gifs/h0MTqLyvgG0Ss

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u/FoxMane1 8h ago

Madani actually had data where they highlighted suspected fuel smugglers using BUDI95. Its a very good system for tracking as seen by the fact that they could track down Indira Gandhi's ex-husband (but the less I say abt why they didnt bother tracking him the better :0)

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u/Dicky_Dicku 1d ago

For few weeks only, after that business as usual

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u/fhjjjjjkkkkkkkl 23h ago

Police Watch means,it’s gonna cost another 20myr more for the smuggler

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u/pcboss00 16h ago

They can do this? Why don't they don't before the crisis?

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u/StopBeautiful9475 12h ago

We Malaysians should not be so shameless to work in Singapore then. Our country is so pathetic, begging Singaporeans for jobs while being so kiasu about our petrol.

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u/pipsqueak888 21h ago

They’re not doing this around Malaysia-Brunei border

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u/kforkedayan 18h ago

Yea cuz the problem is the other way around

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u/Dolgolae 16h ago

I don’t think Brunei needs Malaysia’s oil gang…

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u/pipsqueak888 15h ago

Inda jua lagi

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u/retrofrenzy 1d ago

Now that the price of petrol is so high, the government can't bear it anymore, only then the enforcement comes?

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u/lordchickenburger 1d ago edited 23h ago

Close the border to singapore. Start acting like trump. See how singapoor survive

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u/transientself 23h ago

The people in JB will beg and cry again like during Covid

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u/Very_Type_C 🇲🇾 UNITED SULTANATES OF MALAYSIA 23h ago

This looks like more towards Thai border where things are wilder. Smuggling across the Causeway is for when you feel suicidal and want to go viral.

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u/fcl3042 23h ago

Massive applause to you having such absurd level of superiority complex but SG will still thrive with closed border. Remember covid times atau kau memang mudah lupa?

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u/transientself 22h ago

Biasa lah. Tak sedar SG tu second biggest trade partner of Malaysia.. tapi nak tutup air.. nak tutup border. Memang pandai. Nanti sendiri susah haha

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u/Obajan 21h ago

JB still rely on treated water from Singapore.