Showing posts with label Malaysia Corruption Ranking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malaysia Corruption Ranking. Show all posts
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Malaysia drops one spot in latest Corruption Perceptions Index
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's ranking on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) dropped by one place in 2016, with the country now ranked 55th out of 176 countries.
Malaysia also dropped one point in the index, scoring 49 out of 100, said a report by global graft monitor Transparency International.
Denmark and New Zealand came in as joint first places as "clean" countries, while Somalia with a score of 10 came in last, preceded by South Sudan which scored 11.
According to the report, 69 per cent of the 176 countries on CPI 2016 scored below 50, adding that this year, more countries declined in the index, not improved.
The CPI scale indicates that zero is perceived to be highly corrupted while 100 is perceived to be very clean.
Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) president Datuk Akhbar Satar, at a press conference today, explained why Malaysia's CPI index dropped despite the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) aggressive war against corruption.
More on New Straits Times
Monday, December 17, 2012
Malaysia Does Better in Corruption Index
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
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
World Champion of Corruption
For so long, Malaysia has been in the domestic and international limelight as far as corruption is concerned.
However, it has never been humiliated and shamed by the international community wholesale like today.
Transparency International, ANI Washington, Hindustan Times and WSJ Live, to name a few, have all bestowed Malaysia the dubious honour of Champion of Corruption.
Much have been written, reported and more than 100 financial scandals exposed since 1983, beginning with the then world’s biggest banking financial loan scandal – the Bumiputera Malaysia Finance (BMF) which came with a murder suspense.
BMF’s internal auditor Jalil Ibrahim was found dead in a banana grove in Hong Kong in July 1983 when he was sent there to probe the scandal.
The federal government had to bailout BMF three times to a tune of RM2.5 billion to keep it afloat.
After 29 years, no one has been punished for the financial scandal and no one has been convicted for the murder.
That was 1983. What about today?
It is still the same as reflected by the murder of Mongolian interpreter Altantuya Shaariibuu who is linked to alleged corrupt financial practices over Malaysia’s Defence Ministry’s purchase of two French-made second hand Scorpene submarines at an inflated price of RM6.7 billion.
What is confirmed is that Altantuya was murdered by two police security officers who served Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor.
Although the two policemen have been convicted for the murder and their case is pending appeal, what we amazingly still don’t know are these:
Malaysia is a country blessed with vast and rich natural resources, including oil and gas. But, after 55 years of BN-Umno rule, the country’s federal debt is at more than RM620 billion (including RM118 billion in off-budget liabilities or sovereign guarantees for private corporations like the Port Klang Free Zone and government-linked company loans ending 2011) against a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of RM881 billion or 70.4% of GDP.
This means the BN government is operating way above the legislated federal debt ceiling of 55% of GDP.
Although I have mentioned this many times over, there is surely a need to keep on reminding all Malaysians so that, when they go to the next general election, they can make an informed decision on what they must do to save Malaysia from an economic disaster of a bankrupt nation.
Congratulations Najib. The whole world now knows you are leading the most corrupt nation on earth.
Source : FreeMalaysiaToday
However, it has never been humiliated and shamed by the international community wholesale like today.
Transparency International, ANI Washington, Hindustan Times and WSJ Live, to name a few, have all bestowed Malaysia the dubious honour of Champion of Corruption.
Much have been written, reported and more than 100 financial scandals exposed since 1983, beginning with the then world’s biggest banking financial loan scandal – the Bumiputera Malaysia Finance (BMF) which came with a murder suspense.
BMF’s internal auditor Jalil Ibrahim was found dead in a banana grove in Hong Kong in July 1983 when he was sent there to probe the scandal.
The federal government had to bailout BMF three times to a tune of RM2.5 billion to keep it afloat.
After 29 years, no one has been punished for the financial scandal and no one has been convicted for the murder.
That was 1983. What about today?
It is still the same as reflected by the murder of Mongolian interpreter Altantuya Shaariibuu who is linked to alleged corrupt financial practices over Malaysia’s Defence Ministry’s purchase of two French-made second hand Scorpene submarines at an inflated price of RM6.7 billion.
What is confirmed is that Altantuya was murdered by two police security officers who served Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor.
Although the two policemen have been convicted for the murder and their case is pending appeal, what we amazingly still don’t know are these:
- What’s the motive for the murder. The presiding judge had the audacity to rule that the motive for the murder is irrelevant. Can any court in the world beat that?;
- Why did the murderers, after shooting Altantuya point blank on the head, need to use exclusive military grade C4 explosives to blow up her body. The plausible explanation for this is to destroy all DNA evidence as she was reported to be pregnant when she was killed. This begs the question: Whose child was Altantuya carrying?; and
- Why is the Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) government so fearful of the ongoing French court’s probe on alleged corrupt financial practices over the Scorpene purchases, to the ridiculous extent of barring French lawyers from entering the country to brief parliamentarians and Malaysians on the development of the case.
Malaysia is a country blessed with vast and rich natural resources, including oil and gas. But, after 55 years of BN-Umno rule, the country’s federal debt is at more than RM620 billion (including RM118 billion in off-budget liabilities or sovereign guarantees for private corporations like the Port Klang Free Zone and government-linked company loans ending 2011) against a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of RM881 billion or 70.4% of GDP.
This means the BN government is operating way above the legislated federal debt ceiling of 55% of GDP.
Although I have mentioned this many times over, there is surely a need to keep on reminding all Malaysians so that, when they go to the next general election, they can make an informed decision on what they must do to save Malaysia from an economic disaster of a bankrupt nation.
Congratulations Najib. The whole world now knows you are leading the most corrupt nation on earth.
Source : FreeMalaysiaToday
Friday, December 14, 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Malaysian Firms Lose Deals Due To Bribery
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 5 – Malaysia tops the list in a
Transparency International (TI) survey of 30 countries where companies
felt they had lost deals because they did not pay bribes.
The Bribery Payers Survey was carried out locally by pollsters Gallup among 101 companies that deal with the private and public sector.
“Fifty per cent say ‘yes’, which is very high,” Datuk Paul Low, the president of TI’s Malaysian chapter, said at a press conference today.
“I think this should be a cause of concern for us,” he said, adding that it suggests corruption is deeply entrenched in the country’s system and institutions.
The question asked was: “During the last 12 months, do you think that your company has failed to win a contract or gain new business because a competitor has paid a bribe?”
Malaysia has the highest score at 50 per cent, followed by Mexico and Indonesia at 48 and 47 per cent respectively.
Japan had the lowest number of companies that believed they had lost business due to bribery at two per cent, while Singapore and South Korea scored nine and 11 per cent respectively.
In the same survey, Malaysia received a rating of 4.1 when the respondents were asked for their opinion on how common it is for public officials to demand or accept bribes.
Malaysia also scored a rating of 4.3 when those polled were asked: “How common is the misuse of public funds by high-ranking public officials and politicians?”
For these two questions, the rating is on a scale of one to five, with one indicating ‘never’ and five indicating ‘very common’.
When asked to rate the Putrajaya’s effectiveness in the fight against corruption in the private sector, 75 per cent felt the government was ineffective, while six per cent said it was effective.
According to Low, TI had chose the 30 countries because of the high level of international trade and investment in their countries.
Source : The Malaysian Insider
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Malaysia's Corruption Barometer Up From 48 to 49 Percent
Based on Transparency International (TI) surveys, Malaysia's Corruption Barometer (CB) improved from 48 percent last year to 49 percent this year, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz.
Nazri, who is also minister in charge of the National Key Result Area (NKRA) on Corruption said TI's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) on Malaysia, however, dropped from 4.4 last year to 4.3 this year."This mixed result shows that more work on corruption needs to be done," he said in a statement issued by the Performance Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu), here, today.
He said the CB independently surveyed the Malaysian public's views or experiences of corruption and the results were encouraging, with 49 per cent of the people perceiving the government's fight against corruption as being effective.
He said this was an improvement over last year's score of 48 per cent.
"This proves that the building blocks that have been put in place in 2009 and 2010 are beginning to address the issue of petty corruption, which is what affects the public in their daily lives.
"Some of the initiatives were the Name and Shame Database, to act as a deterrent to corruption offenders, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and the establishment of compliance units within the five key enforcement agencies."
As for the CPI on Malaysia which decreased from 4.4 to 4.3 this year, Nazri said this put Malaysia in 60th position compared to 56th in the previous year.
"It used data from 12 surveys with the Political Risk Services Country Guide, the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index and Transparency International's Bribe Payer Index (TI-BPI) being included as new sources in 2011," he said.
Nazri said TI's BPI was conducted in 28 countries only and this was the first time it had been introduced into the CPI.
The BPI is a new survey conducted to measure the propensity of Malaysians paying bribes to other parties outside Malaysia.
"If this was not taken into account, Malaysia's score would jump to 4.5 and the country's ranking would remain at 56," Nazri said.
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Datuk Seri Abu Kassim Mohamed in the same statement said efforts had already been initiated to combat grand corruption, with the MACC putting in place a transformation programme which, among other things, aimed to strengthen its forensic investigative capability.
"MACC has in fact begun a transformation programme that is beginning to be implemented in phases throughout the institution.
"One of the aims is to improve forensics in order to tackle the complex systemic cases.
"The MACC has to work in tandem with all other enforcement agencies as well as prosecuting bodies in order to tackle the issue of grand corruption from an enforcement angle," he said. -- BERNAMA
Monday, November 26, 2012
Perception of Corruption Does Not Reflect Reality of Malaysia’s Growth
The "overwhelmed" perception of corruption does not reflect the
reality of Malaysia as its socio-economy has been growing steadily.
Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) senior fellow, Anis Yusal Yusoff said the country had performed well in receiving investment from foreign and local entrepreneurs, generating good economic growth and good human development rate.
He said despite Malaysia's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) score of 4.3 in the Transparency International Report 2011, Malaysia's growth rates had been consistently healthy over the past 12 years, averaging 4.8 percent year on year growth.
"Our brief survey in this study shows that Malaysia's investment rate, growth rate, as well as human development rate are not going the way it should if Malaysia is truly as corrupt as perceived," he said in his paper titled "Combating Corruption: Understanding Anti-Corruption Initiatives in Malaysia".
The 72-page paper was delivered at the "Eradicating Corruption: How Successful Have We Been?" Forum which was closed by former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Academy, here, on Monday.
Anis Yusal said Malaysia experienced a very quick recovery in 2010 with the second quarter growth reaching above 10 percent.
He said Malaysia also attracted high levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) at a sustained level.
"Investment rates are more strongly associated with perceived corruption than other economic indicators and usually one would expect that higher corruption would deter FDI."
He said the CPI score indicated that a heightened attention could have triggered among members of the public as well as their awareness of the negative impact of corruption on society and the economy.
"In one sense, this trend is positive. It is encouraging to see the public exercise more oversight on this important issue and for them to make the government more accountable," he said.
He added that there was possibility that the increased public perception on corruption was caused by concerted campaigns by politicians to accuse the other party as more corrupt than they really were. - Bernama
Source : The Star
Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) senior fellow, Anis Yusal Yusoff said the country had performed well in receiving investment from foreign and local entrepreneurs, generating good economic growth and good human development rate.
He said despite Malaysia's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) score of 4.3 in the Transparency International Report 2011, Malaysia's growth rates had been consistently healthy over the past 12 years, averaging 4.8 percent year on year growth.
"Our brief survey in this study shows that Malaysia's investment rate, growth rate, as well as human development rate are not going the way it should if Malaysia is truly as corrupt as perceived," he said in his paper titled "Combating Corruption: Understanding Anti-Corruption Initiatives in Malaysia".
The 72-page paper was delivered at the "Eradicating Corruption: How Successful Have We Been?" Forum which was closed by former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Academy, here, on Monday.
Anis Yusal said Malaysia experienced a very quick recovery in 2010 with the second quarter growth reaching above 10 percent.
He said Malaysia also attracted high levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) at a sustained level.
"Investment rates are more strongly associated with perceived corruption than other economic indicators and usually one would expect that higher corruption would deter FDI."
He said the CPI score indicated that a heightened attention could have triggered among members of the public as well as their awareness of the negative impact of corruption on society and the economy.
"In one sense, this trend is positive. It is encouraging to see the public exercise more oversight on this important issue and for them to make the government more accountable," he said.
He added that there was possibility that the increased public perception on corruption was caused by concerted campaigns by politicians to accuse the other party as more corrupt than they really were. - Bernama
Source : The Star
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Malaysia improves significantly in global bribe survey
Though Malaysian companies performed below the global average in the Bribe Payers Index (BPI) released by Transparency International Malaysia (TI), it has improved significantly from the last time it was rated in 2006.
Malaysia scored 7.6 out of 10, below the 7.8 average global score measuring the likelihood of companies giving bribes in overseas deals.
Malaysia scored 5.6 out of 10 the last time.
The survey, conducted from May 5 to July 8, measured countries whose companies were more likely to give bribes closer to zero points while those that were less inclined to giving bribes scored closer to 10.
TI president Datuk Paul Low said Malaysia’s score had improved significantly from the last time it was rated but stressed that the current score indicated that more needed to be done.
“Malaysia seems to hover just over or below the average every time. It just shows that there is still room to improve,” he said when launching the BPI yesterday.
Low said the sectors worst affected by corruption were construction, forestry and defence procurements while the worst sectors globally were oil and gas, manufacturing and public works, contracts and construction.
He acknowledged that local companies had made a move to fight graft but pointed out that this needed Government support in formulating strict laws.
The BPI findings are expected to be tabled at a roundtable integrity meeting scheduled for next month between the nation’s various business players and enforcement authorities.
Source : The Star
Malaysia scored 7.6 out of 10, below the 7.8 average global score measuring the likelihood of companies giving bribes in overseas deals.
Malaysia scored 5.6 out of 10 the last time.
The survey, conducted from May 5 to July 8, measured countries whose companies were more likely to give bribes closer to zero points while those that were less inclined to giving bribes scored closer to 10.
TI president Datuk Paul Low said Malaysia’s score had improved significantly from the last time it was rated but stressed that the current score indicated that more needed to be done.
“Malaysia seems to hover just over or below the average every time. It just shows that there is still room to improve,” he said when launching the BPI yesterday.
Low said the sectors worst affected by corruption were construction, forestry and defence procurements while the worst sectors globally were oil and gas, manufacturing and public works, contracts and construction.
He acknowledged that local companies had made a move to fight graft but pointed out that this needed Government support in formulating strict laws.
The BPI findings are expected to be tabled at a roundtable integrity meeting scheduled for next month between the nation’s various business players and enforcement authorities.
Source : The Star
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
No improvements on Malaysia’s Corruption Ranking
After last year’s worse ever ranking for Malaysia in the CPI (Corruption Perception Index) by TI (Transparency International), this year sees Malaysia dropping slightly where TI announced that Malaysia has dropped from 4.5 out of 10 to 4.4 this year. In the index, 10 is the least corrupt and Malaysia remains at 56 among 178 countries, the same position as last year. The least corrupt countries in the list are Denmark, followed by New Zealand and Singapore who are all tied at the top. Read more..
Monday, January 10, 2011
Malaysia is the worst country in Asia-Pacific in Transparency International Corruption
Malaysia is the worst country in Asia-Pacific in Transparency International Corruption Perception Index in past 16 years since the start of the annual ranking in 1995.
Despite the “1Malaysia People First Performance Now” slogan and the alphabet soup of GTP, NKRA, MKRA, SRIs, ETP etc and one Roadmap after another of Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the National Integrity Plan of former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad BadawiAbdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysia is the worst country in the Asia-Pacific in Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in past 16 years since the start of the annual ranking in 1995. Read More.......
Despite the “1Malaysia People First Performance Now” slogan and the alphabet soup of GTP, NKRA, MKRA, SRIs, ETP etc and one Roadmap after another of Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the National Integrity Plan of former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad BadawiAbdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysia is the worst country in the Asia-Pacific in Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in past 16 years since the start of the annual ranking in 1995. Read More.......
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