Malaysia In The `Premier League' Of CPI

KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 (Bernama) -- Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz said although the preception on corruption in this country is considered to be unfavourable, Malaysia is still included in the `premier league' comprising 50 countries with the least corruption.
"When we have reached (the group of) 50, how can we go up further? We are already in the premier league, it is not easy to improve," he said in the Dewan Rakyat when responding to a question from Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (Keadilan-Permatang Pauh) who wanted to know the measures taken by the government in view of the decline in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for Malaysia prepared by Transparency International compared to countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore.
Malaysia's position dropped five rungs to 33 last year from the 39th spot in 2005.
Nazri said although the CPI was a study based on foreign perception or opinion, which did not reflect the real situation in the country, the negative perception must be accepted as a reminder to all strata of society to work harder to eliminate corruption.
He said the government would redouble efforts to check corruption through various approaches perticularly in terms of the legal aspects, counselling and social education and thus improve Malaysia's position from the CPI perspective.
"Efforts will also be made to improve the government's delivery system for services particularly those involving the economic sector, forging closer cooperation with the GLCs (government-linked companies) and the private sector in the context of the prevention of corrupt practices and strengthening integrity, and to seek the cooperation of the various sectors within and outside the country to assist in changing the preception," said Mohamed Nazri.
Replying to a supplementary question from Dr Wan Azizah, he said the freedom enjoyed by the media which were less controlled now compared to previously had also contributed to the decline in the CPI.
"Today, the press enjoy freedom and can say anything, which may not necessarily be correct. In the past, there was tighter control, and at that time Malaysia's CPI was good," he added.

tunku : nazri did it again, every time answering anything he'll relate it to the past administration where most of them are there too.so i guess nazri is happy with our achievement. for him it's good enough but he don't realize that there are many countries that are better than us.what interesting here is he tried to relate this to tun when he said "Today, the press enjoy freedom and can say anything, which may not necessarily be correct. In the past, there was tighter control, and at that time Malaysia's CPI was good," but earlier this moron said "although the CPI was a study based on foreign perception or opinion, which did not reflect the real situation in the country, the negative perception must be accepted as a reminder to all strata of society to work harder to eliminate corruption".so why relate it to past administration when the study is not done by local people, it's done by outsiders which the previous administration had no control of them. may be nazri is having tumor in his brain so he can think well what he is saying.just admit it the corruption/crimes under pak lah is the worst in our history, i don't know about the future.
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