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

Open Budget Index 2012

Score 39

FISCAL TRANSPARENCY

Document Availability and Adequacy

Score

4

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

Freedom of Information

Enactment 2010

Freedom of Information Bill

2011

Score

3

ASSET DISCLOSURE

Selangor government led

by PKR’s Tan Sri Abdul

Khalid Ibrahim

Penang Chief Minister

Lim Guan Eng and his

state Executive

Councilors (EXCO)

Malaysia Anti-Corruption

Commission (MACC) Act

2009 (694)

verse. 36

Powers to obtain

information

Score

2

Malaysia

Score 5.88

Rank 64/167

CITIZEN LIBERTIES

Score

3

RESULT

12/16

Total Score

ELIGIBLE to join

OGP

Rationalised Fact

• 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

The End

“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