Malaysia
Brief Introduction Malaysia
Government Type
Monarchy Constitutional
Executive Branch
Chief of State : King Tuanku Abdul Halim Prime Minister : Mohamed Najib
Legislative Branch
Bicameral Parliament House of Representative
Judicial Branch
Federal Court
Political Parties
National Front ( Ruling Coalition) People’s Alliance (Opposition Coalition)
Eligibility Criteria
Fiscal Transparency Access to Information Asset Disclosure Citizen Engagement
FISCAL TRANSPARENCY
Open Budget Index 2012
Score 39 Document Availability and Adequacy
Score
4
ACCESS TO INFORMATION Score
3 Freedom of Information Bill 2011
Freedom of Information Enactment 2010
ASSET DISCLOSURE Score
2 Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and his state Executive Councilors (EXCO)
Selangor government led by PKR’s Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim
Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009 (694) verse. 36 Powers to obtain information
CITIZEN LIBERTIES Score
3 Malaysia
Score 5.88 Rank 64/167
RESULT
Total Score
12/16 ELIGIBLE to join OGP
• Executive budget documents are widely published. However, improvement in level of comprehensiveness and availability is crucial. • One-Portal services and data archives have been established. In spite of national law ensuring access to information is unavailable. • Openness of asset gains trust and simultaneously rises CPI score. MACC as assigned commission should make it public. • Malaysia has strong platform in building open government. There almost sufficient provisions to support open government , yet public participation pertaining to government need to be increased. • Satu Malaysia Policy should actively promoted and be put into real actions
Rationalised Fact
“Broadening public role and participation (are required) in development, to the extent of opening wide access for the public to participate in monitoring development. This is the essence of Open Government “. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
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