East Malaysians can now shop and save by using MyKad

Shop and save by using MyKad- this program also called *Mykad Smart shopper

by Chok Sim Yee. Posted on July 6, 2011, Wednesday

KOTA KINABALU: East Malaysians now can enjoy savings rewards on their daily shopping by only swiping their MyKad under the MyKad Smart Shopper Programme.

The programme offers a comprehensive affiliated marketing platform for retailers and affiliates to form mutually rewarding collaboration, where retailers offer retail privileges to members, and referral commission to affiliates for referring members to buy from retailers.

Consumers will be able to enjoy special privileges, instant cash rebate and reward points when they shop at participating merchant outlets.

Founder of Affiliate Junction, Lawrence Teo, said the programme had acquired over 30,000 affiliates and members, with close to 200 participating outlets.

“Among them, around 10 per cent of merchants and five per cent of affiliates and members are from East Malaysia markets,” he said during the official launch in East Malaysia by Affiliate Junction which is jointly supported by the National Registration Department (NRD) and Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) here yesterday.

Affiliate Junction is an online and offline affiliate programme network developed and managed by I Synergy Universal Sdn Bhd, an integrated retail performance marketing solution provider in Malaysia.

There are currently more than 20 participating merchants from East Malaysia, including Sutera Sanctuary Lodges, Rumours Bistro, Lava Restor Bar, Heatwave, Airworld, Hua Hing and Survivor Paintball.

Teo, who is also the chief executive officer of the IS Group, is confident that the programme would attract more participating merchants, affiliates and consumers in East Malaysia, especially Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan and Kuching in the next few months.

The programme was officially launched earlier in Kuala Lumpur on November 4, last year. Affiliate Junction aims to acquire at least 10,000 affiliates and members from East Malaysia over the next 12 months.

“We have our targets set to expand Affiliate Junction both on the local online market as well as outside of Malaysia, and continue to make Malaysia proud.”

On the other hand, chief marketing officer of IS Group, Y E Leong, assured consumers that their private and confidential (P&C) information will not be extracted from their MyKad.

Leong explained that the MyKad will only be used as a membership card in the programme, and only information necessary for the programme such as name, identification card number, and transaction history at participating merchants will be captured for programme tracking, reporting and incentives.

“For retailers, they will not be able to view a user’s transaction history with other retailers; they can only view the history in their own outlets.

Meanwhile, director of the Government Multipurpose Card Project from NRD, Siti Rohani Muhamad Yusup, encouraged more organizations to utilize MyKad for cost saving and efficiency purpose, as the initiative done by Affiliate Junction.

She pointed out that MyKad has enabled Malaysians around the world to benefit from more than 50 applications ranging from health services to transportation under the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) initiative.

Rohani added that other initiatives introduced on the MyKad platform include e-pasartani and MyKasih programme, which aimed to alleviate the socioeconomic status of low income earners.

“The initiative by Affiliate Junction that leverages upon the innovative use of MyKad, which links retailers, affiliates and consumers on a rewarding platform for all parties is made feasible through this MyKad Smart Shopper Programme.

“It is a programme that I personally feel will help Malaysians at large to gain benefits from the strategic alliance of retailers under Affiliate Junction,” Rohani said.

In conjunction with the East Malaysia launch, Affiliate Junction is offering 12-month free trial to a minimum of 200 potential retailers in East Malaysia as case study partners.

Also present at the launch were Affiliate Junction Programme patron Dato’ Ir Wan Zahari Hassan, Systemic M&E Sdn Bhd managing director Haji Uda Haji Sulai and Kemawang Enterprise Sdn Bhd managing director Haji Mohd Kamaruddin Yap.

For more information on how to register as a consumer, affiliate or merchant, visit Affiliate Junction wesbite on www.aj.my or MyKad Smart Shopper Program microsite on www.mykad.aj.my.

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Disclamer for  found in the Affiliate junction website: 

AJ’s flagship affiliate program, MyKad Smart Shopper Program, is a privately managed retail program and is wholly owned by I Synergy Universal Sdn Bhd (ISU).

The official support and endorsement given by the National Registration Department (a.k.a. Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara, JPN) and Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) is to recognize and encourage the initiative to promote usage of MyKad’s multi-usage functionality within private commercial sector.

The support and endorsement DO NOT warrant any commercial partnership and business collaboration between JPN & MDeC and ISU. JPN & MDeC do not hold any stake in the business or receive any incentive or profit from the program and ISU’s business revenue.

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PENAFIAN:

Program Mykad Smart Shopper merupakan satu program rangkaian runcit affiliate persendirian yang dimiliki dan diuruskan sepenuhnya oleh I Synergy Universal Sdn Bhd (ISU).

Sokongan rasmi yang diberikan oleh Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara (JPN) dan Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) adalah untuk mengiktiraf serta menggalakkan inisiatif dan promosi dalam penggunaan kad pintar di kalangan sektor komersial swasta.

Sokongan rasmi ini tidak terikat dengan sebarang perkongsian perdagangan serta kerjasama perniagaan di antara pihak JPN dan MDeC dengan ISU.

Pihak JPN dan MDeC juga tidak memegang syer atau menerima apa-apa insentif, keuntungan dan hasil dari perniagaan syarikat kami.

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*Mykad smart shopper program is designed to leverage on Malaysian national identity smart card in promoting local retail industry. Using MyKad as the program ID, registered cardholder (i.e. program members who have been referred by affiliates) can enjoy retail privileges at participating merchants’ outlets using their MyKad, while the referral affiliates will be incentivized through the program system.

Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/07/06/shop-and-save-by-using-mykad/#ixzz1iET6rVaV
source of news:
http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/07/06/shop-and-save-by-using-mykad/
http://aj.my/our-solutions/mykad-smart-shopper/

Senior citizens are require to bring their original Mykad and a photocopy mykad in order to completing the RapidKL Senior Citizen Card registration

Red tokens for senior citizens using RapidKL

KUALA LUMPUR: RapidKL is introducing red-coloured tokens for senior citizens that will allow them to enjoy a concession fare or 50% discount tickets on the LRT.

Syarikat Prasarana Negara Berhad group director for rail division Khairani Mohamed said commuters aged 60 and above could also travel with a 50% discount on the KL Monorail from tomorrow.

“These single-journey red tokens can also be bought and used by the disabled. The purchase can only be made at our ticketing counters at the LRT stations.

“Similarly, for the monorail service, the 50% discount tickets are to be bought at the ticket counters,” he said in a statement.

The ticket vending machines at the LRT stations will only issue normal tickets, which are blue.

Senior citizens are advised to use their RapidKL Senior Citizen Card for more convenience in their travelling, skipping the need to queue to buy the token each time they want to take the LRT or Monorail.

“Those who have yet to get a card can go to the Pasar Seni LRT station to apply for free card,” said Khairani.

“They need to bring their MyKad and a photocopy of it, and also a complete registration form to the counter at the Pasar Seni station.

“As for the disabled, they need to show OKU cards issued by the Welfare Services Department.”

Khairani said the concession fare was in line with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s an­­nouncement on Budget Day in October that senior citizens would be accorded a 50% discount on the LRT and monorail tickets and the concession fare also extended to the disabled. — Bernama

Source of news : Bernama and NST

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/12/31/nation/10184159&sec=nation 

It is illegal to use or owning others Mykad

Man with another person’s MyKad jailed

Posted on December 2, 2011, Friday

LAHAD DATU: The Magistrates’ Court here yesterday jailed an Indonesian for 15 months for using another person’s Mykad.

Mohammad Ali Sandir Bin Laena, 34, pleaded guilty to committing the offence before Sessions Court Judge, M. Rajalingam, who sat as magistrate.

The accused was charged under Section 25 (1) (o) of the National Registration Regulations 1990.

Prosecuting officer Inspector Mohamad Zaidi told the court that the accused was arrested during an operation after the police personnel found he was using a Mykad belonging to a man named Dharma Nazrul Bin Marali.

In the investigation the accused admitted to having bought the Mykad from an unknown man for RM50.

In passing sentence, Rajalingam also ordered the accused to be referred to the Immigration Department after serving his sentence.




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Foreigner jailed for MyKad offence

Posted on May 6, 2011, Friday

SANDAKAN: The magistrates’ court here yesterday jailed a 30-year-old foreigner for possessing someone else’s MyKad.

Noraimah Seddala Sarahento pleaded guilty before magistrate Mohd Izuddin Mohd Shukri to a charge under Rule 25 (1)(o) of the National Registration Rule 1990.

The accused was arrested at the arrival hall of Sandakan Airport on April 28 after arriving from Kuala Lumpur.

Immigration personnel detained her after being suspected of possessing a MyKad belonging to another person.

Investigation revealed that the accused was given a Mykad with someone else’s name on it after she had paid RM150 to an unknown man.

She then bought a ticket from Kuala Lumpur to Sandakan using the MyKad as she was desperate to return to her country of origin.

The National Registration Department verified the MyKad and found that it was not the accused’s MyKad.

Source of news:
Bernama 
1. http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/12/02/man-with-another-persons-mykad-jailed/#ixzz1iEJcsG6m
2. http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/05/06/foreigner-jailed-for-mykad-offence/#ixzz1iEKkCx7m

Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara (JPN) akan mengeluarkan “MyKad dengan strukur baru” pada 3 Januari yang dipertingkatkan ciri keselamatan dan dapat menangani pemalsuan mykad

‘Imej maya’ dalam MyKad baru dapat elak kad dipalsu, kata JPN

Oleh Shannon Teoh

Dec 30, 2011

PUTRAJAYA, 30 Dis — Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara (JPN) akan mengeluarkan “MyKad  dengan strukur baru” pada 3 Januari yang dipertingkatkan ciri keselamatan dan dapat menangani pemalsuan kad itu.

Ketua Pengarahnya Datuk Jariah Moh Said berkata agensi itu menggunakan “teknologi laser terbaru” untuk mencetak MyKad baru yang mempunyai “imej maya” pemegang kad yang tidak boleh dibuang.

“Biasanya mereka akan mengubah warna foto. Tetapi jika anda mencuba untuk ubah imej maya ia akan memusnahkan keseluruhan kad,” katanya kepada pemberita sambil menambah imej itu akan dicetak di bawah lapisan permukaan kad.

Wakil rakyat pembangkang telah mendakwa Barisan Nasional (BN) telah memberi MyKad kepada sekurang-kurangnya 1,600 warga asing antara Mac hingga Jun untuk mengundi pemerintah pada pilihan raya umum akan datang.

Pakatan Rakyhat juga mendakwa pada Ogos lalu seramai 1,108 pemastautin tetap di Lembah Klang telah diberikan status kewarganegaraan dalam satu hari sahaja.

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak telah menubuhkan  jawatankuasa pilihan khas Parlimen untuk mengkaji transformasi pilihan raya negara.

Jariah juga berkata kad baru itu dibuat daripada polikarbonat yang lebih kuat dan dilengkapi mikrocip berkualiti tinggi yang boleh mencapai kapasiti 80 kilobait (kb) berbanding 64 kb yang digunakan sekarang.

Beliau menambah langkah itu diambil berikutan aduan-aduan yang dikemukakan terhadap MyKad yang mula dikeluarkan pada 2000 tidak tahan lama dan mikrocip sering tidak boleh dibaca mesin pengimbas.

Walaupun enggan mendedahkan jumlah aduan yang dikemukakan kepada JPN namun beliau berkata kos untuk mengeluarkan setiap MyKad hanya RM24.50 berbanding RM27.20 sebelum ini.

Semasa dilancarkan, MyKad asal dikatakan berkebolehan mencapai fungsi tambahan seperti maklumat lesen memandu dan perdagangan elektronik.

Tetapi kebanyakan fungsi-fungsi itu tidak berjaya disebbakan kekurangan sambutan pasaran dan kad pintar tidak boleh dikesan.

MyKad baru yang akan diperkenalkan di Shah Alam dan Putrajaya pada 3 Januari ini akan dikeluarkan di seluruh negara dalam tempoh enam minggu selepas itu.

Source of news: 
Malaysian insider
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/bahasa/article/imej-maya-dalam-mykad-baru-dapat-elak-kad-dipalsu-kata-jpn/

MyKad With New Security Feature available from Jan 3 2012

date of post this blog : 2 Jan 2012

MyKad With New Security Feature available from Jan 3 2012, begin at the National Registration Department office at Putrajaya and Shah Alam office in first stages

PUTRAJAYA: The National Registration Department (NRD) will be issuing the new MyKad with the latest security features in stages from Jan 3, said NRD director-general Datuk Jariah Mohd Said.

She said the issuing of the new MyKad would begin at the NRD offices in Putrajaya and Shah Alam on Tuesday and would be extended to other branch offices throughout country after Feb 15.

“The new MyKad is more durable as it is made of tougher polycarbonate material as well as a new and longer lasting chip.

“Apart from that, the MyKad has a “ghost image” which uses a new laser technology on the surface to prevent forgery,” she told reporters at a media conference here yesterday.

Jariah said NRD was confident the new MyKad would meet international standards as it had improvements over the existing version.

“Members of the public are encouraged to change to the new MyKad but it is not compulsory,” she said.

Jariah said NRD branches in other states such as Kluang and Ipoh would be issuing the new MyKad on Jan 10, Johor Bahru (Jan 14), Kuantan (Jan 15), Melaka (Jan 17), Kuching and Kota Bharu (Jan 20), Kuala Terengganu and Penang (Jan 29).

Apart from that, she said the NRD office in Alor Setar would also issue the new MyKad on Feb 2, Miri (Feb 6), Kota Kinabalu and other branches on Feb 7 and branches in the Federal Territory on Feb 15.

“NRD will take one day to issue the latest MyKad in the NRD branches stated.

“Other NRD branches will take 10 working days in the peninsula and a maximum of 30 days in Sabah and Sarawak,” she said.

NEW MYKAD: National Registration Department (NRD)  director-general Datuk Jariah Mohd Said showing the new MyKad at the press conference in Putrajaya. — Bernama photo . 
source of photo - copy from http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/12/31/new-mykad-available-from-jan-3/

A comparison of the new MyKad (right) and the old one. The new MyKad contains a laser-engraved ghost image of its holder and the Prime Minister’s Office Building Complex can be seen in the background when it is placed under UV light. Pic by Effendy Rashid

THE new MyKad with its laser-engraved ghost image and other security features will be tougher to forge.

National Registration Department (NRD) director-general Datuk Jariah Mohd Said said the new MyKad would bear two  photographs of the holder instead of one.  The smaller photograph would be a ghost image imprinted on the top left of the normal photograph.

And, unlike the old MyKad, which does not have any laser engraving, the identity card (IC) number of the new version will also be engraved in small lettering below the normal photograph.

"In case of any attempt to tamper with the normal photograph, there is another image which is more difficult to remove as it is burned using laser into the MyKad. "Also, the small IC number under the normal photograph will help in verifying the numbers and it has a tamper-proof 80k chip compared with the 64k in the old MyKad.

 

"The new chip is better than the old one which can be easily become faulty. It also has more storage capacity," she said, adding that the card was made using tougher polycarbonate with stronger adhesive on the cover.

Other non-visible new features were art screen, line width modulation, background screens and patterns, variable microprint, Ultraviolet (UV) pre-printed guilloche pattern, UV pre-printed multicolour and UV pre-printed image.

"The current MyKad is still valid. However,  I encourage the public to switch to the new MyKad."

Remarks: Ghost image = also called Image Maya by public

 Source of news and photo: 
Bernama
 http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/12/31/new-mykad-available-from-jan-3/#ixzz1iE4EnzEY 
NST
http://www.nst.com.my/top-news/dept-to-roll-out-new-mykad-from-next-week-1.25965#ixzz1iEGH5wyd