KUALA LUMPUR: Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Idris Jala yesterday urged the corporate sector to voluntarily sign a pledge to battle corruption in their business activities and operations.
By signing the Corporate Integrity Pledge and Anti-Corruption Principles for Corporations in Malaysia, Idris said it would show the companies’ commitment to “encouraging a business environment that controls corruption and promoting values of transparency, accountability and good governance”.
“It is a set-out principles for companies to commit to creating a business environment that is fair, transparent and free from corruption.
“The principles are more than a statement of mere intent, and if they voluntarily sign the pledge it shows that they really want to uphold these princples,” he told reporters after launching the Corporate Integrity Pledge and Anti-Corruption Principles for Corporations, here yesterday.
Also present were Bursa Malaysia Bhd chairman Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah, KPMG managing partner Mohamed Raslan Abdul Rahman and Transparency International Malaysia president Datuk Paul Low.
More than 100 companies joined the two-hour briefing on the pledge, organised by Pemandu, NKRA Corruption Monitoring and Coordination Division, Securities Commission Malaysia and jointly supported by Bursa Malaysia.
Idris, who is also the chief executive officer of the government’s Performance Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu), said the initiative represented yet another opportunity to leverage the synergies between the government and corporate sectors in fighting corruption. — Bernama