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KUALA LUMPUR: Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) takes seriously the Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) Asia 2020 Report published by Transparency International (TI), which indicated that 71 percent of Malaysians feel that corruption in government it is a serious problem.
President Wong Kah Woh (pix) said that the PAC would invite TI to give a briefing on the report, as well as the chief commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to provide comments and share the directions of the MACC in its fight against corruption and improvement of the integrity of the country’s public administration.
“PAC believes that this figure shows Malaysians’ lack of confidence in the integrity of the country’s public administration and its staff.
“Factors contributing to this situation must be identified and efforts to combat corruption must be intensified,” he said today in a statement.
He said that the effectiveness of the National Anticorruption Plan (NACP) should also be studied, since the questionnaire for the survey was administered within the implementation period of the NACP.
According to the report, 39 percent of Malaysians felt that corruption has increased in the past 12 months and their satisfaction with the MACC is rated at 74 percent.
Thirty-six percent of Malaysians believe that members of parliament are corrupt, a higher percentage than reported by respondents in seven other Asian countries, namely Bangladesh (18 percent), Taiwan (17 percent) , Myanmar (14 percent), Philippines. (12 percent), China (11 percent), Cambodia, and Vietnam, six percent each. – Called
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