Public Service Department (JPA) Archives

13 February 2026

FeaturesMy

Time To Phase Out Colonial-Era PTD Scheme From Malaysia’s Civil Service

Malaysia's elite PTD scheme in the civil service is an anachronism from colonial days; the UK has already transitioned from a generalist cadre. The Galen Centre says the PTD scheme should be phased out, but a PTD asserts that PTDs are still relevant today.

5 September 2025

Opinion

Parliament Inquiry Shows Bureaucratic Inertia Blocking Health Reform

A PSSC inquiry into a Health Service Commission proposal showed little willpower to solve issues of an overworked, underpaid and understaffed health service, as bureaucrats shifted blame across agencies and politicians acquiesced to maintaining status quo.

3 September 2025

Malaysia

MOH, JPA, SPA Play Blame Game Over Health Worker Shortages

In a Health PSSC inquiry, MOH, JPA, and SPA bureaucrats traded blame for health worker shortages. MOH cites a lack of new positions for old hospitals despite rapid service expansion. JPA and SPA say MOH is their priority; MOH gets new positions every year.

2 September 2025

Malaysia

JPA Estimates RM4 Billion Cost Of 51,000 New Health Worker Positions Approved Since 2019

The approval of 51,354 new positions in MOH from 2019 to 2024 – including medical, dental, and pharmacy officers; nurses; AMOs; others – was estimated to incur financial implications of under RM4 billion, according to JPA data presented to the Health PSSC.

11 August 2025

Malaysia

Health Minister Welcomes JPA Study On Importing Indonesian Nurses

Health Minister Dr Dzul has instructed MOH to work with JPA on a study about the possibility of recruiting Indonesian nurses for work in government hospitals, admitting that Malaysia's dire nursing shortage was "self-inflicted".

24 January 2024

Malaysia

Contract Doctors’ Future Now Questionable, Civil Service Permanent Appointments Halted From February

The future of contract doctors is now in question, as Cabinet has decided to suspend permanent appointments in the civil service from Feb 1, 2024 (all new appointments will be contract), pending a "new" recruitment method to curb the rising pensions cost.

22 August 2023

Malaysia

Compulsory Thursday Batik Attire For Civil Servants Upsets Some Doctors

An Aug 21 circular by JPA compels all federal civil servants to wear Malaysian batik at work on Thursdays, except uniformed staff and for official events with set dress codes. A senior MO slams the mandate as "impractical" for doctors in clinical work.

22 June 2023

Malaysia

Zaliha: Public Services Commission Transparent, Effective In Health Human Resources

Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa says the recruitment process by the Public Services Commission (SPA) for MOH staff is "organised, transparent, and effective", discounting the need for a separate services commission to manage health human resources.

10 December 2020

Malaysia

MP Bemoans JPA Scholars Skipping To Australia For Medical Training

Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali responds that medical grads are encouraged to carry out their housemanship abroad before returning to Malaysia to do their two years’ compulsory service.

Tag: Public Service Department (JPA)

Time To Phase Out Colonial-Era PTD Scheme From Malaysia’s Civil Service

Parliament Inquiry Shows Bureaucratic Inertia Blocking Health Reform

MOH, JPA, SPA Play Blame Game Over Health Worker Shortages

JPA Estimates RM4 Billion Cost Of 51,000 New Health Worker Positions Approved Since 2019

Health Minister Welcomes JPA Study On Importing Indonesian Nurses

Contract Doctors’ Future Now Questionable, Civil Service Permanent Appointments Halted From February

Compulsory Thursday Batik Attire For Civil Servants Upsets Some Doctors

Zaliha: Public Services Commission Transparent, Effective In Health Human Resources

MP Bemoans JPA Scholars Skipping To Australia For Medical Training

Pork Importers Back Pig Farming Ban In Selangor

Time To Phase Out Colonial-Era PTD Scheme From Malaysia’s Civil Service

Sultan Sharafuddin Wants Total Pig Farming Ban In Selangor

Half Of EPF Members Have Under RM50,000, KWAP Warns Of ‘Optimism Bias’

Critical Manpower Shortage, Unsafe Working Conditions At HTAR Klang — Medical Officer