M’sian judiciary is 9th least corrupted worldwide

It seems that Malaysians have a better opinion of their judiciary than citizens of most industrialised nations, and this has befuddled Transparency International (TI) Malaysia and the Bar Council.
According to those surveyed, we have a world-class judiciary.
Ranked No 9, Malaysia is far ahead of Hong Kong (11), United Kingdom (21) and United States (33) in a survey on perceived judicial corruption of 62 countries carried out by TI last year.
Malaysia is however behind nations which have traditionally rank high in TI's annual Corruption Perception Index, including Denmark (1), Singapore (2), Sweden (3) and Finland (4).
Malaysia also fared better than Japan (16), South Korea (29) and Taiwan (44), and most of other Asian countries. The survey was revealed in the recently released TI’s Global Corruption Report 2007. [See chart below]
When respondents are asked to rank their judiciary system between 1 to 5, only 19 percent of respondents described Malaysia’s judiciary system as corrupt.
TI Malaysia chairperson Ramon Navaratnam was unable make sense of the results. At a public forum on the report today, he shared his ambivalent views with Bar Council president Ambiga Sreenevasan and Institut Integriti Malaysia (IIM) president Dr Mohd Tap Salleh.
Ramon said the methods used by TI was not revealed. “It would not have been wise to identify who they surveyed because it is known that security forces of some nations would abuse that information.”
“And I must reiterate that the survey (perceived judicial corruption) is not to be confused with Corruption Perception Index,” he said.
Malaysia ranks 44 out of 163 countries in the corruption index, which was released late last year.
According to the judicial corruption report, 59,661 people from all the countries were surveyed between June and September last year. TI did not indicate the number of respondents per country.
“We also don’t know who these people are. Are they foreign investors in other countries or are they residing in Malaysia? What is the ratio of foreigners versus locals?” said Ramon.
Ramon said that he would be contacting TI's Berlin headquarters to ask for a "proper explanation" on the survey.
A system that works fairly
Ambiga said the results of the survey might lead people “to rest their laurels” despite recent campaigns by the Bar Council to reform the country’s legal system.
“We want to be first class. We want to have first-world judiciary, whenever we suggest improvement, it’s not to be perceived as nuisance. We want the system to work fairly,” she said.
Mohd Tap insisted that the ranking system be dropped. “When there’s a ranking system, people would think that we are better than certain countries ... we should stick to the fact that 19 percent of people thought that the judicial system is corrupt.”
Ramon proposed that the Bar Council and TI-Malaysia undertake a local survey to “find out the level of faith and confidence” in the judiciary and prosecution services.
During a press conference, Mohd Tap said IIM would coordinate with the council for the coming survey on public perception on corruption in general. He did not reveal when the survey would be carried out.
“It’s a good guide for us to know what other people think. The perception survey reflects reality,” said Ramon.
“However, the methods must be systematic. If you get a bunch of crooks and ask them: Are you good? They’ll say yes,” he added.

tunku : ask the opposition, see what they says.for sure they'll say that this survey is "rubbish" because not favouring them especially anwar.