Policy Proposal to the Malaysian Government: The Procurement Act
Government procurement has long been considered one of, if not the biggest source of wastage of public funds across governments around the world, and remains the area of governance most susceptible to corruption. Malaysia is no stranger to such occurrences, with some of nation’s biggest corruption scandals being procurement-related. Previous and successive Malaysian governments have […]
PAC findings expose massive misgovernance issue at the heart of migrant labour recruitment, police investigations must ensue
6 JULY 2024 PRESS STATEMENT On 3 July 2024, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) led by Mas Ermieyati reported that the migrant labour recruitment system under the supervision of the Ministry of Home Affairs had been operating for six years without having been formalised in a contract. The Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4 […]
The Taman Rimba Kiara Land Grab and the Web of Conflict of Interest
A serious conflict of interest and complex web of connections between former FT Minister, Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan and property tycoon, Tan Sri Desmond Lim Siew Choon (developer and owner of Pavilion Shopping Mall). KuNan was also linked to the Pavilion Genting Highlands project through a series of amazing coincidences, despite his denials of any […]
Conflict of Interest: Preventing Political Patronage and Corruption in Malaysia
Conflict of interest (COI) and political patronage have dominated our country’s economic and political landscape for decades, permeating every level of government and society. While practices such as government procurement, award of contracts and appointments to certain position are legal due to public policies and laws, they are by no means ethical. The task to […]
Felda Diperah / The Felda Crisis: Factsheet & Booklet downloads
Lembaran Fakta FELDA DIPERAH Muat Turun Di Sini (Bahasa Melayu sahaja) (5.0mb, jpg) LAPORAN RINGKAS C4 CENTER: Felda Diperah muat turun di sini (BM) (2.2mb, 16 mukasurat A5 PDF) C4 EXECUTIVE REPORT: The Felda Crisisdownload here (English) (2.2mb, 16 A5 pages PDF) The Felda Crisis – PDF powerpoint presentation during Press Conference, April 2018. download here (English)(1.1mb, landscape slides PDF) The Felda […]
Langkawi: Good Governance, The Pillar to a Successful Tourism Industry
In 2017, C4 Center was invited to Langkawi by a handful of local organisations to study the issues afflicting governance and the sustainability of Langkawi. C4 Center conducted three field trips across the year, interviewing members of civil society, lay people, business stakeholders and government agencies as an independent assessment of the litany of complaints […]
Political Financing and Cross Border Corruptions
In the first part of our initiative, we focus on regulating political financing. We were part of a coalition to produce a guideline entitled “Pengubahsuaian Untuk Kewangan Politik yang Telus and Bertanggungjawab di Malaysia. In the second phase of our work, we produce a report entitled Understanding Cross Border Corruption and Money Laundering: The 1MDB […]
An Insight to the Kelantan Timber Industry
“The story of illegal timber trade is a story of violence, killings, corruption and money-laundering.” -Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The Great Flood of 2014 in Kelantan caused around 21 deaths and displaced over 200,000 people. Massive logging, or more precisely, the illegal timber trade activities in […]
Political Financing Reforms
Download the report here (19 pages, 7.2mb). Alternative Powerpoint Format download here.