Country’s corruption perception index still at 5.1PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s score in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has not improved this year, in a survey conducted by Transparency International.
The country’s ranking declined to 47 out of 180 countries in 2008, compared to 36 out of 91 countries in 2001 and 43 out of 179 countries in 2007.
Transparency International Malaysia said in a statement that this showed that some countries had made much better progress than Malaysia.
“The country’s CPI score remained at 5.1, the same as in 2007. The score for Malaysia for the last eight years since 2001 had been between 4.9 (2002) and 5.1 (2005, 2007, 2008).
“This shows that the trend of the CPI for Malaysia has remained mediocre at mid-point, with no improvement over the last eight years,” said the statement.
In South-East Asia, Malaysia ranked second behind Singapore, which scored 9.1 on the index. Last was Myanmar with a score of 1.3.
The statement said a number of high profile cases had dampened public confidence in the integrity of government institutions, such as the V.K Lingam case, alleged corruption cases in government procurement, abuses in land excision and fraud on land transfer, and corruption in business transfers at the local municipality level.
Transparency International, however, commended Malaysia on the setting up of Pemudah, a Special Task Force to Facilitate Business, and the Prime Minister’s initiative to reform the judiciary and the Anti-Corruption Agency.
“Furthermore, the ratification of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) on Sept 17 has brought Malaysia on par with the international norm of modern economy,” it said.
Transparency International said the best way to combat corruption was to make government decisions and transactions more transparent by revamping the Official Secrets Act, and curbing money politics so that political parties were more accountable in the use of money during elections.
tunku : with all the reforms, we keep increasing our ranking.bravo pak lah.hopefully 2009 we will see the ranking goes down.
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3 comments:
If Dolah had been sincere in fighting corruption he should have made the effort to cleanse himself of the allegations made against him, his family and those closely link to him.
He should have invited the ACA to investigate all those allegations and allow them to make public their finding without fear or favour.
C'mon Dolah if at all you are a leader then you should lead by example.
di negara mana-mana pun ada rasuah.cuma yang membezakan ialah setakat mana rasuah itu diamalkan.ini yang kita lihat yang mana boleh dikatakan indeks selepas zaman pemerintahan Dr.M jadi boleh dikatakan juga rasuah ketika ini ada lagi dari "serpihan" semasa zaman Dr.M dulu.
5 tahun dengan 22 tahun..mana yang lebih lama? :P
the govt had to do something regarding this matter.the ACA have to be more proactive in dealing with corruption.
but the society also have to help the ACA and the govt.the society also must learn to reject corruption.report any corruption that we know of.
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