Driving license in Malaysia

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Peter_Al Member

Member since 23 June 2020

Peter_AlMember23 June 2020 07:05:37

I have MM2H pass can I change my local driving license to Malaysia license?

Thank you

Loïc ViP

Member since 14 January 2019

LoïcViP23 June 2020 11:49:10

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Hello Peter_Al and welcome to expat.com !

We have an interesting article about Driving in Malaysia and there is a whole paragraph about Driving licence conversion

I'm sure you will find an answer in there

Wishing you a great day.

Regards.

Loïc
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Member since 10 June 2014

cvcoMalaysia expert07 July 2020 00:15:58

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Having MM2H wont matter, most anyone can have a local licence, but do you NEED one? If you have an international licence from an approved source like AAA in USA, thats enough. Others who cant convert can take the courses for a licence but they are only in the Malay language. Ive been using my international AAA licence for the past 20 years with no problems and see no advantage to having a local licence unless a person has a keen desire to feed the govt hard earned money because what, its fun to do?

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