What do you think of corruption level in Malaysia?

Answer 1

When you speak of corruption levels in Malaysia, my Singaporean friends can provide many examples of traffic police stopping them and trying to get some money. Once I was driving a Singapore registered car and it was stopped at a checkpoint. They claimed that I was speeding and wanted money before they let me go. At the same time, Malaysian registered cars were whizzing past at high speed and they did not even bat an eye.

Another example - look at the number of bars, karaoke lounges and massage parlours that abound in any major Malaysian town. Many are just fronts for brothels and it's well known among the locals. Once in a long while, a "raid" is conducted and some are arrested. A few days later everything is back to normal.

Answer 2

Well, according to the survey Malaysia are 44th out of 163 countries on the list, so there are 119 more corrupt countries than Malaysia in the world.

I think that the present prime minister is doing a whole lot better than his predecessor for stamping out corruption.

One example is Dr M (the previous prime minister) who was an 'adviser' to Proton cars and had 19 Proton cars given to him and his family for 'test driving' until Mr Badawi put a stop to that.

So things could be a whole lot worse, but of course there is still room for improvement and things can only get better.

Answer 3

Malaysia’s plunge of seven places from 37th to 44th position in the last three years during the Current Abdullah premiership from 2003 to 2006 in the Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI). This is despite the fact that when the five-year National Integrity Plan launched by Abdullah in April 2004 had targeted improvement to at least 30th position in 2008?

Malaysia will become an international laughing-stock if the government is serious in trying to reduce Abdullah’s anti-corruption campaign into a mere P.R problem when everybody knows that the root cause is the lack of political will to create a society with zero-tolerance for corruption.

This is why the 18 “high-profile” corruption cases involving “big fishes” had been allowed to escape into the South China Sea although there was a lot of fanfare in the early months of the Abdullah premiership that they would be caught and be brought to justice to demonstrate the seriousness of the anti-corruption campaign of the new Prime Minister.

Early this month, the newly-appointed Perak ACA director Samsiah Abu Bakar opened fire against heads of government departments who had ignored corruption among staff.
She said that she would seek clarification from those who had not taken action against such staff.

She said she was shocked when she went through the records as there are some 21 cases dating back to 2001 which had not been attended to, including warnings and suspension of salary. She said these are cases which could not be prosecuted in court due to a lack of evidence but there were elements of corruption involved. The ACA subsequently recommended departmental action against the staff concerned.

Samsiah made the statement some two weeks after it was revealed that the Chief Secretary to the Government, Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan had issued a directive to all heads of departments giving them six months to take disciplinary action against corrupt civil servants.

At a meeting of the Chief Secretary with all directors-general, ACA officials tabled a report on 585 civil servants allegedly on the take between 2002 and 2006. However, due to lack of evidence, they could not be produced in court. ACA had recommended that disciplinary action, including demotion, transfer and salary freeze, be taken against those implicated in the cases.

Parliament expects a full report on the actions taken against the 585 civil servants (including the 21 cases referred to by Samsiah) for corrupt practices, though there was not enough evidence to sustain court actions.

Judging from this selective case I managed to highlight here – in my opinion corruption level in Malaysia may not be too bad as compared to some countries. The most important issue is that Government is trying to do something about it. I don’t know whether that would answer your question – since you ‘re asking for opinion – that’s my opinion – there is no right or wrong.

Answer 4

highly corrupted. 5 year ago, it was published in a germany magazine (independent magazine) that malaysia is top 5 in the rank most corrupted in the world.
even malaysia dont need media to tell them that malaysia is corrupted. Malaysian can see clearly it self. i ll give a example.
Where else can you see policemens is mostly overweight? 2 fat guys ride a 110cc motorcycle. sigh... i pity that motorcycle

Answer 5

as high as petronas twin towers