Road safety is a safety measure to minimize the risk of road accidents and roadside damage

due to people's mistakes when on the road especially when it involves riding a bike. We cannot
count everyday road accidents and people's deaths due to driving errors and lack of
compliance with road traffic regulations. There is a risk of injury or death for everyone on the
street. Everyone must be well aware of the rules governing road traffic, especially children and
young people who are at great risk of road accidents. Everyone should learn the road traffic
and safety rules at a very early age to perform safer behaviors in later life. There are a few
factors that need to be considered in ‘basikal lajak’ or riding bike. One of the main concerns is
that this activity can bring danger to the public. Most of the kids like to play their bicycles on
the main road which indirectly can bring danger to them as well as vehicle users. Cars,
motorcycle, or even heavy vehicles sometimes moves at a high speed and sudden changes
in the motion of the vehicle or even unexpected obstacles can cause an accident and even
bring fatal to them or people surround them. Therefore, when on the road, extra care is needed
to reduce the chance of an accident.
Besides, a moral issue also needs to be considered. Lack of attention from parents or
guardian caused a kid to focus their attention to other kids of their age. This becomes a
problem whereby other kids bring bad influence on their friends. One of the bad influences is
‘basikal lajak’. When this happens, they focus on their friends and trust them more than their
parents. Some vehicle has its blind spot in which not all road user knows and only the driver
or rider would detect the blind spot. The lack of knowledge about the blind spot of a vehicle
would greatly increase the risk or getting an accident. When a rider or even driver neglects
the safety system that has been implemented by the government. One of the few negligences
is playing phones while driving. When a driver plays their phones, they shift their attention
from the road to the phone on their hands. This act will increase the probability to get accident
especially when vehicles that do not have safety equipment installed on it such as bicycles.
When kids play their bicycles on the road, that directly violates traffic regulations. This
is because the bicycles that they use are not suitable on the main road. Some may even
modify their bikes to match up with their friends. Modified bikes often not because of improving
it but merely for a better design. Sometimes modifying bikes without proper guidance or
modification steps will lead to dysfunctional of some parts. Such parts are tires or even the
most crucial ones are the brakes. They prefer to remove the brakes and use their own foot as
a replacement for the brakes. Without the brakes on their bike, they cannot break properly.
This becomes troublesome when they go at high speed and need to use the brake to reduce
the speed. Often, they just use gear installed on their bikes but the main difference between
brake and gear is that gear will permanently stop the bikes rather than reduce the speed.
When this happens at high speed, they would lose control over their bikes and lead to
accidents. This is the main reason why this action violates traffic regulations.
 There are 2 strategies suggested in the above statement. The first one is through
‘bimbingan’ or guidance. Parents can guide their children to focus on what they love to do and
turn it into something that would be beneficial to them in the long run rather than punish them.
This is called tap in their potential. By knowing what their children like to do, parents can
support their children to increase their potential. When this happens, children will have a
medium to express their favorite hobby by practice it in a safe environment rather than do it
without proper guidance. Society should play their role instead of blaming others with no
solutions offered and even parents should always monitor their children’s movements and
remind them about road safety to avoid any untoward incidents. They should alert with their
surroundings to see what is happen around them especially when it involves kids play their
bicycles dangerously on the road. By using available facilities throughout the nation, parents
or even adults can help kids to develop their potential in becoming an athlete in the future.
This is because they are considered a valuable asset to the country.
Other than that, programs should be conducted to change the behavior of involved
kids. Such a program is knowledge of aerodynamic, bicycle race engineering and even the
awareness of risk towards the dangerous activity of ‘basikal lajak’. Upon learning those
programs, they will know more and gain insight knowledge about things that involve bicycles.
This type of program is essentials especially to kids because they can develop their potential
based on their hobby which is riding a bike. From there, they can learn more and focus on
their objectives in the long run about what should they do next, which school should they go
or even what course should they take and what kind of decision will deeply affect their grades
in school.
There are a few factors that need to be considered when implementing this program.
One of the factors is the cost of implementing the program. This cost varies from the fee of
rental for the program to the food required throughout the program. When we talk about cost,
we need to see the outcome of the programs. Is the cost is equal to the program or is the cost
is more than the program itself. Sometimes, there is an insufficient cost to conduct a certain
program. When this happens, we just have to make do with what we have. However, the
quality of the program would be reduced which indirectly leads to the reduction of the result or
objectives that the program conducted. When the program does not reach its objectives, kids
would go back to doing the same dangerous activity again and have a high tendency to get
an accident. This issue would not be resolved and raise more public concern about what will
happen to the future generation if this dangerous activity is not to stop or prevent it immediately.
 Next is the quality of the speaker who conducts the programs. The speaker that has
high experience would certainly give a better result when compared to an inexperienced
speaker but, the cost would be greater. The person who is responsible for hiring the speaker
would have to make a tough decision when it comes to this. When we talk about achieving the
objectives of the program, some sacrifices should be made to achieve it. Such sacrifice
includes the increase in cost to hire a more effective or more experienced speaker. The highly
qualified speakers will certainly help to achieve the objective of the programs and reduce the
number of programs conducted yearly. The impact will also increase as the speaker can attract
the participant’s attention and help them to understand why they need to undergo these
programs.
In my opinion, this type of program does not bring a positive effect on the kids which
involved in dangerous activities such as riding a bike at the main road or highways. This is
because it all depends on the readiness of the participant to accept the program and instill the
knowledge in their mind and heart. Most of the time, they would simply attend the program
and follow the flow. Not much impact would have been done to the participant because they
do not accept the knowledge in their hearts. Originally, they do not want to study in school and
that is one of the main reasons why they would follow their friends riding a bike on the main
road. When this happens, we need to consider the root cause of why this thing happens in the
first place. It may be from the parents who do not give much attention to their kids or even the
family is broken which is why their kids look for their friends to focus their attention. It may be
also from the school in which they have some problems at school. Other than that, it might be
from their friends. We all know how friends of the same age can deeply affect the decision of
other members of the group. Without proper supervision from parents or even teachers, the
kid simply follows their friends doing dangerous activities rather than focus on the safer one
and character building.
Moreover, the reason why I think this program will not give positive feedback towards
its participants is that the programs offered are irrelevant to the participants. Programs that
are above the participant's age will not be effective due to a lack of understanding. Kids that
do not understand a single thing in the syllabus will only end up dozing off in class just to waste
time and resources of the programs. Cost also needs to be taken into considerations. Most of
the time, the budget allocated for such programs is insufficient. When cost is reduced,
automatically the quality of the programs will be reduced. Quality can be listed from the quality
of the place, food, condition of the place or even the quality of the speaker itself. Poor quality
often leads to poor results which is why programs like this need moral support and financial
support from communities as well. Most of the cost offered required in-depth knowledge
regarding to safety and regulations especially course related to engineering. Such course only
suitable for students after high school due to the complicity of the content. It is not wrong to
introduce them to a new course but just an introduction does not guarantee they know
everything about the intended course that they attend.
Lastly, the reason why I think this program will not give positive feedback to the
participants is due to the fact that it all depends on the society. The mentality of society usually
thinks about how programs like this only used to brainwash their children instead of
transforming their children into a better person. Often, we hear a case of miscommunication,
now this is the time where the word miscommunication must not present. When people miss
understanding the objective of the program, they will try to reject the help that has been offered
by the government. Worst case scenario, they themselves will brainwash their own children
that already go to the programs. Kids trust their parents or guardians more than outsiders, this
is where their parents or guardians use those trust to manipulate them into thinking that this
type of program is not suitable for them. When this situation happens, the objective of the
programs does not achieve which means to say that the programs fail and waste government
resources and time.