Malaysia has moved up six notches to 54th place in the Corruption
Perception Index (CPI) 2012 which is conducted by Transparency
International (TI).
The announcement made by Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M)
ranked Malaysia third among Asean countries, behind Singapore (5th) and
Brunei (46th).
"Malaysia's position has improved slightly, staying in the mid-range
average, indicating that many steps undertaken by Prime Minister Datuk
Seri Najib Tun Razak through the
Government Transformation Programme
(GTP) to fight corruption have shown results," said TI-M president Datuk
Paul Low when announcing the CPI 2012.
This year, a total of 176 countries were assessed using an upgraded methodology.
Moving away from the old scoring system of one to 10, the new CPI
scores range from zero to 100 with zero being most corrupt and 100 being
corruption-free.
Malaysia scored 49 while Singapore scored 87 and Brunei, 55.
TI also stated that while none of the 176 countries in the list
obtained a perfect score, two thirds of the countries scored below 50,
indicating a serious corruption problem.
Low commended Malaysia for its commitment to fighting corruption as
Malaysia was the only country assessed that included the CPI as part of
its Key Performance Index (KPI) in fighting corruption.
He also warned that institutional corruption would harm and stunt the emerging Asean economy.
"The Asean economic community as a group must tackle corruption and
if Malaysia aims to be a high income economy, we must resolve
institutionalised corruption," he said.
The CPI measures the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist
in a country through 13 different surveys and country assessments by
independent institutions.
These assessments are conducted among experienced observers such as businessmen and country analysts.
Fighting Corruption National Key Results Area (NKRA) director D.
Ravindran, who is from the Performance Management and Delivery Unit
(Pemandu), stated that the Malaysian
Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)
and the Attorney-General's Chambers would conduct anti-corruption
training for lawmakers next year.
Asli Centre for Public Policy Studies chairman Tan Sri Ramon
Navaratnam wished for more government efforts to improve perception on
corruption.
Source : AsiaOne
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