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The main mission of Op BENTENG is duty for 24 hours to observe and guard
to strengthen the country's border the country's borders. NTF has also
from being further breached by illegal faced a lot of challenges in achieving
immigrants either by land, sea or air. its mission. Malaysia's vast geography
Op BENTENG focuses on six (6) main in land border areas as well as open
borders as follows: maritime areas have become the
• Northern Waters of the Straits of main route for illegal immigrants to
penetrate our borders.
Malacca
• West Coast Waters of the Since its establishment in May until
13 December 2020, a total of 10,859
Peninsular illegal entries have been successfully
• Southeast Johor Waters addressed involving a total of 831
• Land Borders in the North, West Tekong (boat captain), 9,654 illegal
immigrants and 374 smugglers. Apart
Coast and part of Southeast Johor from that, NTF has also managed
• Tanjung Datu Waters to successfully seize assets worth
• Sabah and Sarawak Land millions of ringgit.

Boundary with Kalimantan, West NTF pledges that it will continue to
Coast and East Coast of Sabah work to identify those involved with
illegal cross-border activities to
Throughout the execution of Op ensure the national border is guarded,
BENTENG, about 500 hotspot routes strengthened and protected from
used by PATI to cross the country's being further breached by illegal
borders have been identified. For immigrants either by land or sea.
the maritime routes, the identified Indirectly, stopping the spread of the
locations are Langkawi Island, COVID-19 pandemic brought in by
Kedah, Kuala Selangor, Tanjung Piai illegal immigrants has become the
and Southeast Johor. The overall main mission of NTF.
personnel strength for this operation
is approximately 10,000 personnel
involving all agencies which are on

TABUNG PAHLAWAN 2020
COLLECTION ACHIEVED
RM10 MILLION TARGET

O314 FFICIAL YEAR BOOK 2020 The Tabung Pahlawan 2020 collection Yang Amat Berbahagia Puan Sri Datin Paduka
has successfully achieved its target Hajah Noorainee binti Haji Abdul Rahman who is
of RM10 million. The purpose of this the Patron of Tabung Pahlawan 2020 launch the
collection isto supportthe government’s Tabung Pahlawan Campaign 2020.
effort in ensuring the well-being of
Malaysian Armed Forces veterans
especially those who are disabled, their
widows along with the families and
veterans under the ASNAF category.
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