Malaysian economy very good, sales of luxury goods improving every year, nowadays plenty can afford to travel overseas, not once, not twice, but every month or so.

How much your salary? what are your job prospects? what's your education background and skillsets?

ok this is difficult so after rent uncle only has like < 1500 to survive for the whole month
what are your expenses?

drive or motor?
how much spent on food?
if you smoke, better to stop.
how much saving per month?

Has uncle considered freelance gigs, upwork, freelance on carousell etc.

Uncle has some really useful skills: indesign, illustrator, photoshop, some artificial intelligent like face swapping, stable diffusion

also, I think Uncle better apply job elsewhere to get salary increment, no point staying with same company if no increment.

also if uncle has time on weekend, try to apply for promoter kind of part time job extra RM800 - RM1000 also can, just as long as can create additional income