1. Introduction
Economic and technological developments have brought great influence on the socio-cultural and Malaysian
society. However, these changes affect the community through the increased of social problems, including
truancy in schools. Truancy has been a common problem faced by most rural or urban schools in Malaysia.
According to the Ministry of Education, Malaysia 2012 reports, out of 111,484 discipline problem cases 19,545
cases involved truancy. In 2011, from the 108,650 discipline problem cases, 18,550 involved truanting behavior
do the task and achieve a level of objectivity.