Ten-Point Consensus at the
Round Table on Corruption &
Assembly of Voices

Petaling Jaya 13th July 1997
  1. Public and Periodic Declaration of Assets and Liabilities by all members of Parliament and State Assemblies.

  2. Amendment of the law to provide for confiscation of ill-gotten gains of the corrupt.

  3. Amendment of the law to provide for a statutory presumption that a public officer having extraordinary wealth or leading a lifestyle disproportionate to his known sources of income should be deemed to have committed an offence of corruption unless he can give a satisfactory explanation.

  4. Greater transparency in funding of political parties.

  5. Restructuring of the Anti-Corruption Agency as an autonomous body independent of Executive control and which is directly responsible to Parliament.
  6. Restoration of an independent and impartial Judiciary.

  7. A Free and Investigative Press.

  8. Greater accountability and transparency in the whole machinery of government and the privatisation process.

  9. Amendment or repeal of laws which inhibit a climate of openness, accountability, equity and justice, such as the Official Secrets Act, the Internal Security Act, the Printing Presses and Publications Act and the enactment of a Freedom of Information Act.

  10. Create a new culture of integrity in political life, administration and the public service with zero tolerance for corruption through inculcation of moral and ethical values in the family, school and religion.