Corruption in Malaysia

There are different levels of corruption in Malaysia. I will be talking about government, national, and tourist corruptions. First, the government is introducing many new plans that deal with trying to make Malaysia corruption free. They have the National Integrity Plan (NIP), which takes a preventive approach. It tries to put an emphasis on honesty, integrity, and ethics. They have made a plan to develop eight new strategies, and is called the Integrity Agenda. This list includes:

• Family Institution
• Community
• Civil Society
• Socio-Cultural Institutions
• Religious Institutions
• Economic Institutions
• Political Institutions
• Administrative Institutions

There are also corruption issues towards tourists and initiated by tourists that have harsh penalities. In the past there have been attacks on foreingers including Americans. the United States Government has qualified two groups as terrorists groups inside Malaysia. They are the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). JI is a branch of al-Qaeda and both of these organizations have multiple groups operating in Southeast Asia. The last known attack on Americans was in 2000 and another attack in 2003 involved other foreigners. Most of the crime on tourists is purse snatching, pick-pocketing, automobile theft, and credit card fraud. They take drug trafficing very seriously in Malaysia. It is a mandatory death penalty if you are found with 15 grams (1/2 oz) of heroin or 200 grams (7 oz) of marijuana. Another serious crime is distributing religious books of a different faith to Malaysian Muslims.