CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION

The review of efforts that have been made in Malaysia to combat

corruption is encouraging but it is also clear that some of the major

issues discussed above need to be addressed if Malaysia hopes to

succeed in its attempt to reduce corruption.

Matters like access to information, a free press, an independent judiciary

and the establishment of an ombudsman are not difficult to achieve.

The steps that need to be taken are clear. All that is required is political

will. The Prime Minister has clearly expressed the wish to reduce

corruption in Malaysia. The people are right behind him and can be

counted on for support. All that needs to be done is to weed out the

corrupt elements in our society by stepping up prosecutions. Then, by

inculcating integrity in every individual, we can achieve our goal of a

corruption free Malaysia.

SOLUTION TO ERADICATE CORRUPTION

Headline: More bite in corruption fight

Publication: NST
Date of publication: Aug 16, 2010
Section heading: Main Section
Page number: 010

COMBATING corruption is one of the six National Key Results Area (NKRA) identified in the GovernmentTransformation Programme (GTP). The NKRA focuses on three key areas that are most prone to corruption, which are regulatory and enforcement agencies, government procurement and grand corruption.

One of the key initiatives for regulatory and enforcement agencies is to strengthen and empower compliance units.

This will reduce corruption by ensuring that there are checks and balances within the enforcement agencies, preventing opportunities for misconduct to go undetected.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is the lead agency overseeing delivery under the NKRA. Currently, the police, Customs Department, Road Transport Department (RTD) and Immigration Department have established their own compliance units.

MACC is now focusing on ways to enhance the compliance units of these agencies.

"I have met with the heads of the law enforcement agencies and we are currently conducting training for officers of compliance units at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Academy (MACA)," said MACC chief commissioner Datuk Seri Abu Kassim Mohamed.

The police, Customs Department, RTD and the Immigration Department are the four agencies perceived as having the lowest integrity in the 2007 Malaysian Transparency Perception Survey. These four also recorded the most number of corruption cases brought to court by the MACC in 2005 and last year.

This focus on compliance units is the latest NKRA initiative being implemented to restore public confidence and increase the Corruption Perception Index score, which saw Malaysia dropping from 23 in 1995 to 56 last year.

While it may take months before any positive results are seen, this initiatives will deliver lasting and direct impact to the rakyat, who deal with enforcement officers on a daily basis.

Compliance monitoring is crucial in areas like the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Commercial Crimes Investigations Department (CCID), Narcotics Department, and the Internal Security and Public Order Department in the police force; enforcement and customs divisions of Customs Department; enforcement, foreign workers, visa, pass, permit, security and passport divisions of the Immigration Department; and the enforcement division of RTD.

Apart from the compliance units, the government is looking at implementing several other initiatives that are designed to stop corrupt practices in other key areas of public service, including institutionalising job rotations to prevent any linkage between enforcement officers and criminal organisations and creating a performance league chart for local authorities.

Other initiatives include defining the parameters of "support letters", publishing details on governmentprocurement, and conducting studies to revamp political funding.

A "zero-tolerance" policy has been formulated to protect whistle-blowers. The Whistle-blower Protection Law act was passed in Dewan Rakyat on April 20 and in Dewan Negara on May 6.

The government also aims to solve corruption cases within one year while stiffer punishment have been introduced, including a "name and shame" database that publishes the names of corrupt officers.

EFFECT OF CORUPPTION


Corruption produces a very bad effect on the society. It destroys the ethics and the values of the society. Corruption makes the people to do every type of bad thing. Due to corruption people do not perform their duty well. There are many examples of corruptions lying in our society. We often see, when a common citizen

violate a law, police arrest him. But as he offers bribe to the officer, he immediately release him after taking the bribe from him. This shows that the police officer is corrupt and he not performing his duty well. Like wise our courts are not fulfilling their duty in a well manner. If you have money, you can make the judge take decision in your favor. In this way the innocent is punished and the culprit released. Our politicians, doctors, engineers, journalists, teacher etc are doing corruption in their fields. In these circumstances what do you expect with our society? The answer is “just corruption”. When a common man sees corruption in every field of life, he also makes himself a corrupt man.

Others effect of corruption in Malaysia is reduced public trust in government increase vulnerability of the poor.Corruption that reduces governance capacity also may inflict critical collateral damage: reduced public trust in government institutions. A declines, research has shown that vulnerability of the poor increases as their economic productivity is affected. The concept of social capital refers to social structures that enable people to work collectively for the good of the group.20 One of the most important and widely discussed elements of social capital is trust, both interpersonal trust and trust in institutions of governments trust an important element of social capital --Recent research on social capital suggests that there is a relationship between corruption, trust and poverty. The proposition is that corruption destroys people’s trust in government and other institutions. This effect is most salient for the lowest income groups and low social capital affects people’s willingness and ability to engage in productive activity.