You Must Register For MyDigital ID To Use MyJPJ From Oct 10

The Road Transport Department (JPJ) has announced that starting from October 10, 2024, a MyDigital ID will be required for any users to login to the MYJPJ app.

In a notice on the app’s latest update, JPJ stated that users should be prepared. This is to ensure that they won’t face any issues with logging in after the change has commenced.

JPJ app the only way to access and verify digital road tax

The notice did not say that the MyDigital ID will be the only way to login to the JPJ app. However, it did say that they will be limiting the usage of the JPJeID, which is currently used to login to the app.

Since the digitalisation of the roadtax and driving licence, the MyJPJ app is widely used as a way to verify and review one’s driving licence and road tax information. So safe to say, this change will affect a lot of users of the MyJPJ app.

According to the FAQs on JPJ website, the JPJeID will not be sunsetted, but its uses will be limited to public portal (website) and JPJ kiosk.

Use of MyDigital ID by government agencies

The decision taken by JPJ to adopt the MyDigital ID as their login requirements makes them the  first agency to require the use of the MyDigital ID to access a service.

Previously, the Health Ministry included the digital ID as a way to access the MySejahtera app, but it was an option rather than mandatory.

However, the announcement has already received fire from netizens online. Many have publicly aired  their views that the decision made by JPJ is a bad one.  This is largely due to the unreliability of the digital ID.

One such derision was from former Member of Parliament and Deputy Minister, Ong Kian Ming who detailed his troubles with MyDigital ID in an X thread.