By BERNAMA
The Institute of Integrity Malaysia (IIM) today tabled the National Integrity Plan’s five-year progress report to evaluate the position and level of the country’s integrity.
The Integrity Commitment Report (2009-2013) is the second report published by the institute after the plan was launched in 2004.
The tabling of the report to the government will create better understanding among Malaysians that Malaysia has progressed in improving the integrity level as a practice in life.
IIM president Tap Mohd Salleh tabled the report before minister in the prime minister’s department senator Paul Low at the tabling and presentation of the report at the institute here.
Tap, in his preface in the report, said the Integrity Commitment Report 2009-2013, which took into account the relevant inputs, as well as views and suggestions by interested parties, is hoped to serve as the key reference in evaluating the position and level of integrity in Malaysia.
The five-year report covers the progress in Malaysia on issues pertaining to governance, integrity, corruption, service delivery, family institution and quality of life throughout the second phase of the National Integrity Plan (PIN).
The first phase of the plan covers 2004 to 2008. IIM had tabled the first five-year report on the plan in 2009 to Najib Tun Razak, who was then deputy prime minister.
PIN is an idea mooted by former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. It is a master plan aimed at providing direction and guidance to the society and the country.
The Integrity Commitment Report focuses on five key targets, namely to fight corruption, misappropriation and power abuse in a holistic and effective manner, increase efficiency in the public service delivery system and address bureaucratic red-tapes, enhance corporate governance, business ethic and corporate social responsibility, strengthen family institution and community and improve the quality of life and the people’s well-being.
The report also includes suggestions to enhance the momentum of integrity.
Among the gist in the report are on the achievements in the initiative made to fight corruption, misappropriation and power abuse which showed positive development based on indicators in the country and globally.
This is reflected through, among others, improvement in the National Integrity Perception Index (IPIN) score, to 6.8 in 2013 from 6.5 in 2009, the results of the Perception of Corruption and Effectiveness of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) Efforts Survey 2012 which revealed the confidence level of the public on MACC’s efforts rose to 64 per cent in 2012 from 42.5 per cent in 2011.
At the global level, Malaysia has improved its position, with the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) score showing Malaysia at the score index of 4.3 (2011) to 50/100 last year, while the ‘Doing Business 2009-2014’ report by the World Bank showed Malaysia is now ranked sixth (2014), from 21 in 2009.
On the target to increase efficiency in the public service delivery system and address bureaucratic red-tapes, the report, among others, focuses on the increase in disciplinary action against civil servants, from 3,344 (2009) to 5,018 (2012).
“Although the number comprises only 0.3% of the civil servants, totalling about 1.46 million people, it does not mean we allow cases of indiscipline to happen,” said the report.
An analysis by the Public Service Department found the offence committed by civil servants involving cases of indiscipline, among others, are absent from work, misconduct, drug abuse, court case and serious debts.
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