For the longest time, particularly since the late 90s, then-opposition parties from PKR to DAP to PAS campaigned on a platform of anti-corruption and anti-cronyism, against the Barisan Nasional. This only intensified during former, disgraced Prime Minister Najib Razak’s time in power and the 1MDB scandal. This ultimately led to the downfall of the Barisan Nasional government in 2018.

The question is, how much do these parties actually practice the transparency and accountability they once demanded of others?

Recently, the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS) at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), in collaboration with the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), published a paper on the transparency index of political parties in Malaysia.

In this episode, we speak to one of the co-authors of the paper, Dr Haris Zuan, from UKM, about what the findings reveal regarding internal democracy and financial transparency within Malaysia’s major political parties.

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Produced by: Dashran Yohan

Presented by: Dashran Yohan

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Categories:  politics,  government,  corruption

Tags:  political transparency index,  political accountability,  anti cronyism,  the bigger picture,  beyond the ballot box,  malaysian politics,  political parties,  1mdb scandal,  anti corruption,  barisan national,  pakatan harapan,  political reform,