Corruption conditions in Malaysia improving – Idris Jala

The Prime Minister’s Department’s Pemandu (Performance Management and Delivery Unit), led by Datuk Seri Idris Jala has claimed that the country is moving into the right direction and is ‘on the right track’ and is doing better now in its fight against corruption. This came in the light of the recent report by TI (Transparency International) that Malaysia had fallen lower by scoring less in the corruption index.

Pemandu released a statement that “In the past year, Malaysia had bettered its graft score from 5.2 to 6.3 in the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, from 3.6 to 4.6 in the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy’s (PERC) Asian Intelligence Newsletter and from 4.5 to 4.6 in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report. If we take the average score of the four surveys, it is clear that Malaysia’s index has improved from 4.45 in 2009 to 4.975 in 2010. We acknowledge that if one were to look only at Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, there is a slight reduction. We need to do a lot more work.

However, if one were to look at the outcome of the other 3 surveys on corruption in Malaysia by reputable organisations, then the score clearly shows that there are improvements. Hence, Dato Sri Idris Jala said that on corruption efforts, we are the right track. Furthermore, it should be clarified that Transparency International CPI for 2010 takes into account 9 surveys which were conducted between January to December 2009 and January to September 2010. Our NKRA work on corruption only began in January 2010 after the GTP Roadmap launch on 28 January 2010 and therefore, the CPI surveys conducted in 2009 do not reflect the NKRA work which only began in 2010,”



comments

Idris Jala claimed a short back the country will go bankrupt by 2019 , unless subsidies are removed.Was this a ploy?
With the latest Budget proposed by Najib we are on a spending spree.
So this means when you want the rakyat to suffer higher prices for goods and services, then frighten them into accepting subsidy cuts.

Now waste money, indirectly encouraging further corruption, like there is no tomorrow.

Where is this country headed? Into prosperity with all the grandiose plans or into bankruptcy with all this overspending.
Time will tell