Solution To Curb Fuel Hike Price and Illegal Immigrant Issues.

Jaudah Abd Rani, Mohd Syazwan Jaafar, Siti Nurulhuda Razali, Mohamad Sabri Kamal, Muhammad Aaqhimullah A Rahman, Mohamad Syakir Mohamed Yusuf
Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
Abstract This paper shows the study of the fuel hike prices problem and illegal immigrants issue in Malaysia. The aim is to reduce the burden of consume on fuel hike price and reduce number of illegal immigrants in Malaysia. Since previous years, these issues had become some of the major problems in Malaysia. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors and effects of these issues towards the said country, and thus comes out with solutions to overcome the problems. Both of the issues affect mostly the sectors of agriculture, construction, manufacturing and transportation. After doing this research, we are able to study the day to day problems and their respective effects on market price completion, and then apply the understanding of the subject in a real situation. Keywords Illegal immigrants, fuel price, shocks, oil, price

Myanmar/Burma, India, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Pakistan. The illegal immigrants has caused the citizens to loss the job opportunities. They tend to take odd jobs unpalatable to the local populace such as working in construction sites and agricultural sectors.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW

i. Effects of Oil Price Shocks on the Economic Sectors in Malaysia. The journal aims to examine the effects of oil price shocks on economic sectors in Malaysia. After doing some research, they realize that there are some long-term effects of oil prices on the agriculture, construction, manufacturing and transportation sectors. The oil price instability can influence the performance of the said sectors because these sectors depend on oil to produce output. Several issues have emerged due to higher oil price. A common issue is people have to spend more than before for their daily use of oil. The prices increased because oil plays an important role in determining other prices. The cost of production also becomes higher due to higher petrol price. Therefore, a higher petrol price affects the productivity of a country, and a lower productivity can adversely impact economy growth. Rising price also can influence the construction sector as it pushes up the cost of raw materials. Suppliers inevitably increase raw material prices for contractors to cover higher transportation costs. The higher prices also cause higher shipping costs. Although Malaysia is an oil-producing country, an oil price hike in 2008 put the Malaysian economy under pressure. The Malaysian government needs to

I. INTRODUCTION

Starting from the past few years, market hike price of fuel and illegal immigrants had become two major issues reported by the media. The two conflicting issues had become major problem to many sectors such as construction, industrial, oil and gas. Malaysia is known for its high quality crude oil. One of the end product of the crude oil is fuel. However, for local market we didnt sell our oil yet we export them with a high price due to its quality and we import a cheaper oil for the local market. This form of trade cause Malaysian fuel price highly dependable on the global price of fuel. Furthermore, illegal immigrants is a big issue for Malaysia and has caused many devastating problem for our country. Most of them are from nearby Southeast Asia countries such as Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam and others. In 2005, the Malaysia government confirmed that around 1.8 million are legal immigrants while around 5 million are the illegal immigrants. The nations home to the highest percentages of the illegal immigrant population were Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal,

control the price to ensure that unstable price will prices, even while production levels remains not harm the agriculture, manufacturing, and constant. construction sectors. Forth, the production of the oil. The location of reserve, amount of the oil founded, the geological III. FUEL HIKE PRICE formation in which the oil is founded and the cost to extract the oil are determined by the physical cost. The price of gas affects a variety of goods and Oil is a non-renewable source, thus the physical services because many economic activities use oil factors are significantly affect the cost of the as an energy source. No one likes to pay higher supplying oil from particular reserve. Moreover, prices, but the global oil market is more substantial investment is required to continuously complicated than most people realize, and the price discover new reservoirs and to develop them. of oil is dependent upon many different factors. Malaysia fuel price dependent on the global oil Lastly was the Non-OECD demand. Oil market. consumption in developing countries that are not part of the OECD (Organization of Economic The first factor the affect the price of the oil was the Cooperation and Development) has risen sharply in OPEC (The Organization of Petroleum Exporting recent years. While oil consumption in the OECD Countries). OPEC consist of 13 countries which is countries declined between 2000 and 2010, nonAlgeria, Angola, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, OECD oil consumption has increased more than 40 Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the percent. China, India, and Saudi Arabia have had United Arab Emirates and Venezuela is the single the largest growth in oil consumption among nonlargest entity impacting the worlds oil supplies. OECD countries during this period. OPEC played an important role for the price of the crude oil because they can increase and reducing IV. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS production among countries. The 2007 and 2008 increase in oil prices was due to reductions in OPEC production allocations in 2006. The strategic location of Malaysia at the South-East Asia attract illegal immigrant to come and work Secondly, the global oil supply and demand. If here. Malaysia is located around other South-East production exceeds demand, excess supplies can be Asia country such as Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, stored. When consumption exceeds demand, Philippines, and others. They can easily across the inventories can be tapped to meet the incremental Strait of Malacca and South China Sea illegally. demand, and the relationship between oil prices and There are many cases in Malaysia that illegal oil inventories allows for corrections in either direction. Non-OPEC suppliers produce 60% of the immigrants came across the Strait of Malacca easily worlds oil, they dont have sufficient reserves to be because of the marine police did not notice their able to control price and can only respond to market appearance. Even though the Strait of Malacca is fluctuations. OPEC, however can directly influence not too big, but the police failed to secure the strait market pricing, especially when the supply of oil from being easy entrance to them. produced by non-OPEC nations decreases. Secondly, the economical factor also attract them, Third, political unrest. If the area that contains oil is this is because the money exchange between under political unstable, the supplier market react Malaysia to their country is differ and the value is by bidding up the price of the oil so that the supply high. For example, the change value between that still available to the highest bidder. Only the Ringgit Malaysian (RM) and Indonesian Rupiah is perception of a shortage in supply can increase very high and this will encourage the immigrants to work in Malaysia.

Malaysia also need a lot or worker because of the increasing development of this country contrary to the other South-East Asia country and all these illegal immigrant usually work for the construction site as a labor. Usually Malaysian do not prefer to work as a labor because of the lower payment, so the employer take the illegal immigrant for a cheaper payment to have the beneficial profit.

V. INITIATIVE TO SOLVE FUEL HIKE PRICE AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ISSUES

This project is to find solution curbing fuel hike price and illegal immigrant issues in Malaysia. As the task assigned, we will design the project using Project Management Technique. The objective set to solve this problem are:

a. Reduce the public and industry burden on hike fuel price in Malaysia. Thirdly, our politic are stable and it make them b. Optimizing the employments vacancy in the want to work in Malaysia. The Malaysia politic industry sector in Malaysia. practice democracy, so that all the Malaysian can c. Reduce the number of illegal immigrants in live in a peace. Some of the immigrants come to Malaysia. Malaysia to avoid from the war happening in their Before proceeding with the plan, a huge reading on country. They will use variety of ways to work in the materials regarding both issues had been done. Malaysia, thus they work in Malaysia either in legal As in the previous part, we illustrated the situation way or illegal. The stable politic will gives peace of fuel hike price and illegal immigrant issues and secure surrounding for them to work and the clearly. Such task was performed to provide economy of the country will stable and getting knowledge on members of the project on the issues we are facing to help planning strategically the increases from time to time. solution to curb the issues. We manage to obtain Malaysia is a country which doesnt sit on the solution to solve the issue of hike fuel price. pacific ring of fire, it differ from Indonesia a lot in terms of earthquake and volcano activities. The Ways to Overcome the Increases of the Fuel Prices little number of natural disasters occurred in i. Efforts From People Malaysia give the immigrants comfort and safe working environment to prosper their life. High price oil is consider as a burden to citizen of a Last but not least, law enforcement by the Malaysia country. Therefore, there is a way to deal with the government was not tight, for this can easily enter increasing of oil price. Firstly, when we want to Malaysia using fake passport or using other illegal travel to somewhere that is short in distance, we can methods. Besides that, in Malaysia fraud getting either walk or use a bicycle to get there, this method can reduce the consumption of oil and also save our terrible for last 10 years. The Malaysia authorities environment from air pollution. Besides that, we too lenient with the illegal immigrants. They should can use public transportation facilities and black list their name once they have been caught, encourage to carpooling with other people when we but illegal immigrants got arrested by the police and want to get to same destination. Citizen can also send back to their country. They will come back to stop using vehicle for showing status and can work because they not been sentenced. They illegal consider to put off engine when there is red signal immigrants give very bad reputation to Malaysia, traffic lights. Lastly, we should focus on developing because today the use Malaysia as the transition of biotechnology and solar energy sources. the drug activities which can gives a risk. ii. Efforts From The Government Side There is some ways to reduce the consumption of oil which in turn will automatically tends to reduce the oil prices. Firstly, the government should reduce the rate of taxes. Each time we refill the gas its

consist of the 72% of the crude oil, 12% the refining, 5% the distribution and marketing and lastly 11% for the taxes from the prices of the gas. By reducing the taxes it will help to reduce the prices of the gas. Secondly, the government should increase the number of the public transport vehicles with high security. By using public transport such as bus, MRT and others it will help reduce the usage of the gas. Thus the citizen does not feel burden if the price of fuel increasing. Third, government should maintain the roads good and safe for vehicles. If the road is not in good condition the usage of the gas will be increase. For an example, if we drive the car at 100 km per hour suddenly there is a holes we reduce the speed the car after we passed the hole we need to increase the speed which the usage will increase the gas. If the road is in good condition without holes the speed will constant and usage of gas will constant. Fourth, the government should promote the usage biodiesel.

Secondly, the prevention process, this process is more to the implement an anti-trafficking public awareness campaign. For example, the Womens Ministry continues to produce pamphlets about indicators of trafficking, which are distributed at border checkpoints. After that, the government has been taking some action by doing an International Cooperation such as negotiating with Indonesian government to amend the 2006 MOU which allows employers to dispossess passport form migrant workers. Besides that, the government has been accepting a recommendation from whole world in order to overcome the problem of illegal immigrants. For example, apply strict law criminal penalties to those involved in dishonest labour recruitment or forced labour.

The government also had come up with an initiative they call Overseas Employment Program which the program was an additional and a new initiative Bio-diesel is the latest technology that replace the along with other action plans that existed under the usage of the diesel. Bio-diesel produced from non- key policies and strategies the ministry embarked petroleum, renewable resources. Besides that, the on to address shortage of manpower. bio-diesel are less air pollutants and less greenhouse gas emissions. Lastly, the government should Moreover, the government also has been come up promote companies which make low petrol with the Comprehensive Settlement of Foreign consuming vehicles. By promoting the vehicles that Worker Program an Illegal Immigrants (6P) that consuming low petrol will help the government to consist of six (6) implementation stage. The first reduce the subsidy that need to been covered. stage is registration process, will be implemented Hence, if the usage is of gas is reduce therefore the for the purpose of registering illegal foreign government only the subsidy that been cover is immigrants in Malaysia and through this method, getting smaller. government got the opportunity to obtain information of the illegal employer. Ways to Deal with Illegal Immigrants Secondly, whitening immigrants, at this stage the There are several initiatives had been come up by whitening process is a process where immigrants government in order to overcome the problem will be evaluated on qualifications to be considered regarding of illegal immigrants. Firstly, the to be hired based on the current needs of employer prosecution process which Malaysian law prohibit which will be determined by the ministry / all forms of human trafficking through Anti- regulatory agencies. Trafficking in Person Act. Secondly, the protection process which victim protection efforts remain Thirdly, amnesty session will take place where the inadequate in Malaysia under a protection order unlisted to be whitened immigrants, or PATI who that can be defined as shelter or protection in voluntarily choose to return to their home countries government facilities. will be forgiven and allowed to return home on their own cost without any action. However, this is

only limited amnesty to illegal immigrants who commit immigration offenses. After that, monitoring session will take place. At this stage, the inspection to the employer's premises throughout the country will be provide to give advice to employers, at the same time explain the implications of legal action if they are protecting the status of illegal workers who are not registered with 6P. Next, enforcement session where at this stage, integrated enforcement will be implemented on a large scale and moved in order to detect and arrest illegal immigrants and employers who are identified immigration offense.
Figure 2 : Project Management VI. APPLICATION OF THE PURPOSED MODEL

Figure 3 : Responsibility Matrix

Figure 1 : Solutions on Fuel Hike Price Figure 4 : Gantt Chart

Period Planned (%) Actual (%)

1 10 10

2 70 60

3 90 75

4 100 95

Figure 5 : Percent Completion Reporting

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