malaysia eligibility overview in joining open government partnership
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Presenting the eligibility study upon certain country is on of the selection process of Model Open Government Partnership 2013. During this process, I presented Malaysia eligibility study based on eligibility criteria defined by Open Government Partnership (opengovpartnership.org).TRANSCRIPT
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