KUALA LUMPUR, June 29 (Bernama) -- About 31 per cent of students in public institutions of higher learning (IPTA) said they would take bribes if they were in a position of power and had the opportunity, Malaysian Integrity Institute (IIM) president Datuk Dr Sulaiman Mahbob said. [The] finding was gathered from a 2002 survey on public perception of corruption done among IPTA students.
Dr Sulaiman said a large number of the complaints received about bribery involved enforcement agencies such as the police, customs, enforcement officers of local authorities, and the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs...only 31 per cent of civil servants were willing to report corruption activities.
However, on the whole, the survey showed that 85.1 per cent of the respondents had never been involved in corruption, and 87 per cent did not agree that bribery was an effective means to get something... 82 per cent of the respondents were willing to give evidence to the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) and 81 per cent were willing to be court witnesses. |