The government has elaborated on its plan to reimpose an international travel blacklist on National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) loan defaulters.
The Budget 2026 touchpoints document stated that the blacklist will target two categories of borrowers.
The first is borrowers with an outstanding exceeding five years and earning more than RM6,000 per month.
The second group are borrowers who work abroad.
Parliament data showed that as of the end of 2024, the amount owed by borrowers who have not made a single repayment or are not doing so consistently exceeded RM11 billion.
This includes more than RM5 billion owed by those who have not paid a single sen to the fund.
Pakatan Harapan, as part of its 14th general election manifesto, had pledged to defer PTPTN loan repayments for borrowers earning less than RM4,000 a month and to abolish the policy of blacklisting defaulters.
The travel ban on PTPTN loan defaulters was subsequently lifted in June 2018 after Harapan assumed power in Putrajaya, with around 420,000 names removed from the blacklist.
However, at the time, it was unable to implement the RM4,000 salary threshold for borrowers to begin repayments, citing the country’s fiscal state. - Mkini
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