The " Balik Kampung" Phenomenon

ESSAY
01/08/13

                                              THE " BALIK KAMPUNG" PHENOMENON

         In fact, the phenomenon of " Balik Kampung" is a common phenomenon that happen regularly almost every year in Malaysia which always strikes a lot of negative effects such as increasing the rate of accidents on the road, rising the number of deaths, jammed which lead to the wasting time, as well as the increasing rate of pollution to our environment.
          Generally, we can find thousands of vehicles on the road during festivals in Malaysia which annually causes the high rate of accidents. In this modern era, many people work outside of their kampung or village and when the festival is just around the corner, they will driving back to their hometown either with their own cars or the public transport. Driving their own car usually increase the amount of car on the road which ultimately lead to high rate of accident as the more number of cars can increase the probability of rate of accident.
          Besides that, the rising of death also make people in worry when they are driving their vehicles back to their hometown during festival. Generally, festival should be something that is very happy and it is very bitter if the scene in a festival is being added with sad moment such as the death of our family members. As I have mentioned just now, more cars on the road will lead to the drastic increasing of rate of accident. Some unlucky accident usually will lead to death and it happens regularly and frequently rather than only finding out injured victims. This is because people nowadays like to drive very fast as they are always in hurry and sometimes they are being selfish.
          Apart from that, jammed will be the most famous and popular event on the "balik kampung" phenomenon. It is not a real phenomenon if there are only few cars found on the road because only from this phenomenon, we can see a lot of cars especially on the highway. However, this phenomenon is frequently leading to the long period of driving time and it always wasting the drivers time and turn them into a bad mood as they need to wait for very log time.
          Finally, this phenomenon is more likely to contribute to the increasing pollution especially air pollution. As we know, the rate of pollution in Malaysia has become worsen nowadays. In addition to the big amount of harmful gases and soot being released from vehicle exhaust, it again increase the pollution which lead to the spreading of various disease as well as the poor condition of environment. These poor condition of environment such as poor visibility can cause uncomfortably to the citizens in our country.
          In conclusion, the " balik kampung" event truly brings out a lot of bad implication. Related people need to take action immediately in order to solve this problem.