In this Cafe Latte chat, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Paul Low Seng Kuan, Performance Management and Delivery Unit's (Pemandu) anti-corruption director Ravindran Devagunam, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) investigations director Datuk Mustafar Ali, and Deputy Education Minister P. Kamalanathan to discuss the topic of combating corruption in Malaysia. The chat was curated by The Star Online news editor Martin Vengadesan.
Begging the panel's pardon, but as long as public perception of selective prosecution on high profile cases is not addressed, the people will always be cynical despite genuine attempts to combat the corruption scourge. A very painful thorn stabbing the public's sentiments is the perceived gross injustice on a past very high profile case of the death of the political aide,that has yet to see closure for the family and the public, even if past grievances can be forgiven n we can move on.
The people may just be able begrudgingly, to forgive and forget money politics, misuse of public funds,abuse of power and bribery in the past and may be anxious enough to give the Goverment the benefit of doubt and get on with it in a clean slate but the one thing on everyone's conscience is the death of a innocent young man. That is the one challenge to those with a sense of decency which has been very hard to overcome.
Much less forgive and forget...people need to know what really happened , to pacify their outrage!
This feeling of moral indignation still lingers powerfully in the psyche of the people. An emotion that needs addressing and exorcising and not ignored nor underestimated.
How can there be any redress if this powerful emotionally scarring feeling is allowed to fester?
But this video below is funny and thought provoking on corruption in Malaysia , have to view it to have laugh and be contemplative of the state of corruption in Malaysia
The 5 panelists at the Global Issues Forum III, which was held at the Civic Centre in Petaling Jaya on 9th January 2009, offered some pertinent solutions to corruption in Malaysia.
Panelist were:
1. Ramon Navaratnam (former President of Transparency International Malaysia
2. Ambiga Sreenevasan (former Bar Council President)
3. Zaid Ibrahim (former Law Minister, Malaysia)
4. Megat Najmuddin (MACC Advisor)
5. Samsul Iskandar (Anti-corruption Activist)
Some of the solutions put forward by the Panelists were
1. Using the ballot box to weed out those who are corrupt
2. Transparency by amending the Official Secrets Act
3. A Freedom of Information Act
4. Transparency in the political funding process
5. Independent public prosecutors
5. A Whistleblowers Act
6 Anti-corruption Courts
7. Amnesty considerations
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