Lim Guan Eng urges Anwar to scrap TuJu, call open tender for new navigation app for civil servants

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 29 — Bagan MP Lim Guan Eng has called on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to abandon the TuJu navigation app and instead hold an open tender for a new road navigation application designed by young Malaysians. Lim's comments come in response to the government's ban on Waze, which was supposed to be replaced by TuJu.

TuJu, developed by the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) and Prosignal Consortium Sdn Bhd, has reportedly failed to meet expectations and caused confusion among the 1.7 million civil servants instructed to switch to it. Lim criticized the LLM chairman and Simpang Renggam MP, Datuk Seri Hasni Mohammad, for further complicating the situation by acknowledging that TuJu was primarily designed to enhance services along tolled highways, not to compete with Waze.

He also pointed out that Hasni had suggested that TuJu could potentially be expanded to cover federal, municipal, and village roads in the next decade. Lim noted that TuJu is not yet ready to serve as a replacement for 1.7 million civil servants and questioned how they were expected to navigate without Waze or TuJu, which has since been disabled.

Lim urged Anwar to rectify the situation by finding an alternative to Waze, discontinuing TuJu, and initiating an open tender for young Malaysians to develop a more effective road navigation application.