My license was expired for more than 5 years. I went to the JPJ website and submitted an appeal luckily, I was able to skip the writing test.
Even though my license had expired, I still drove. Once, the police stopped me, checked, and saw it was expired, they just gave me a saman . The only thing you must avoid is being caught by JPJ directly, because that one will go to court.
After that, I spent about 2 weeks at driving school. Even if you already know how to drive, you still have to pass their test.
For me, I had been driving auto cars for years, so switching back to manual during the test was tricky at first.
But when I did the road test, the examiner could tell I knew how to drive. He just stayed chill and straight away gave me a pass.
After I passed the test straight apply 10 years.
I thiught we can choose auto or manual car.