1.

0 INTRODUCTION
According to Zaharuddin bin Abd. Rahman (2008), bribe is wealth earned by accomplishing
a task for a party that should have been done without any compensation whether to bring
benefit to the party or to avoid harm. In some situations, bribery is similar to tips or rewards
and distorted by some people who say that this is not bribery, but a reward. Bribery can be
define as money, donation, loan, fee, gift, expensive collateral, properties rights in properties
or any other similar benefits.
According to LONGMAN (2003) dictionary defines bribery as illegally give someone,
especially a public official, money or a gift in order to persuade to do something to you.
Whereas, according to the NEW OXFORD (2005) dictionary says that bribery as the money,
etc that is given to someone such as an official to persuade him or her to do something to help
you that is wrong or dishonest.
Bribery is defined as "the offering, promising or giving something in order to influence a
public official in the execution of his/her official duties" (OECD Observer, 2000). Besides
that, the Act defines bribery as giving or receiving a financial or other advantage in
connection with the "improper performance" of a position of trust, or a function that is
expected to be performed impartially or in good faith.
In the Law of Malaysia, our government do have Act 575, Anti Corruption Act 1997. This
act launches the Anti-Corruption Agency, to make further and better condition to prevent or
demolished corruption and for matters necessary there to or connected there with few section.
This act was enacted by the Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong with the advice and
consent of the Dewan Negara and Dewan Rakyat in Parliament.
Lastly, Malaysian bribery is very reciprocal in their business practices and is accepted from a
business level. This sounds defended when its put into a negative way. According to
Transparency International 2006 Bribe Payers Index the international anti-bribery laws still
do not assist as an authoritative force for countries like Malaysia .The Transparency
International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2009 says that Malaysias corruption level
rose significantly and they are now at their lowest ever level which is 56th .The 2009
Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International ranks Malaysia corruption at 4.5.
In another words, Transparency International defines corruption as "the abuse of public office
for private gain." The non-profit organization produces annually its survey of countries
ranked on the basis of how corrupt they are perceived to be. Known as the Corruption
Perceptions Index (CPI), it is based on "the misuse of public power for private benefit. In
conclusion , Malaysia still involved in bribe and by time passing the bribery increasing
without any limits.
2.0 ANALYSIS ON THE ACT OF BRIBERY
2.1 ECONOMIC
According to Husted (1999) examined the role of economic and cultural variables and
found that a significant inverse relationship exists between perceived levels of bribery
in a country and the per capita income in purchasing power parity terms.
According to Berita Harian (2012), the widespread corruption is a indication
of the quality of national authority. Most studies on the impact of corruption show that
it can lead to lower economic growth rate. This is because the elements of corruption
hinder the participation of local investments and restrict the entry of foreign
investment into the country. The state of corruption in high price to pay for
development programs especially in economic development.
Even our ex-prime minister Dato 'Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi focus on
the corruption annihilation agenda to be one of important agenda to be pushed
Indication of his determination to combat this severe cases are reflected in the
establishment of the Malaysian Institute of Integrity (IIM) and the launch of the
National Integrity Plan (NIP) in April 2004 which was just a few months after
assuming the post of Prime Minister.
The politicians and corporate leaders compulsory to practice good values in
their daily practice definitely, Malaysia's CPI is equivalent to some Scandinavian
countries are often recorded 9.6 - 9.7 percentage points for the past few years. Other
than that, as reported by the Global Financial Integrity (GFI) has outlined three key
aspects that affect the flow of illicit money out of a country such as:
i. Macroeconomic issues that constitute a country close to the perception
of widespread corruption and bribery.
ii. The increased numbers of illegal activities without a license such as
secret societies, or gambling.
iii. Law enforcement institutions are weak charged with causing lack of
discipline of economic governance.
Moreover, studies unambiguously show that bribe taking is much lower in
countries with high incomes. Thus, if high incomes can inhibit bribe taking
and high prevalence of bribery retards economic growth, it would suggest that
these two factors that is :-
i. economic growth
ii. bribery levels

Lastly, the rapid bribe increase in Malaysia economy may gave some negative
impact to the nations.
1. Prevalence of high levels of bribery retard economic growth.
2. High levels of economic growth will reduce the prevalence of bribery.
3. Bribery and economic growth can exist concurrently.

2.2 Legal
According to N.R.W Abdullah (2008), Malaysias ranking in Transparency
Internationals global corruption-perception (Table 1) that the corruption mentality
runs deep. Therefore, there are legitimate and widespread concerns that the corruption
is not being stopped, let alone reversed. The Malaysian government acknowledged the
pervasiveness of corruption and recognised the dangers of corruption to economic
growth and has set itself the task of fighting corruption.
Table 1 shows ranking of 13 Asian countries in Political Economic Rick
Consultancy.


Therefore, the legal framework for Malaysia was the Prevention of Corruption
Act 1961 (PCA61) and in 1967, the Anti-Corruption Agency of Malaysia (ACA) was
established PCA61 as an instrument. The major functions of the ACA were:-
i. to investigate and prosecute offences under the act
ii. to introduce preventive measures against corruption in the civil
service and statutory boards
iii. to investigate disciplinary complaints against civil servants
According to (Marican, 1979), The PCA61 was revised, and subsequently
abolished and replaced with the Anti-Corruption Act 1997 which came into force on 8
January 1998.With the revision the ACA, under the jurisdiction of the Prime
Ministers Office, is said to have been strengthened.A criticism of the ACA was a
perception that although complaints of various forms of corruption and abuse of
power abound, they were not vigorously pursued and slow in doing so. Between 2001
and 2004 the ACA 38,471 complaints were received, of which only 3,761 were
investigated (Malaysiakini, 2005)
The law enables the ACA to seek out corruption but requires it to provide
evidence. The problem seems to be the difficulty in obtaining evidence for
prosecuting the public official or Minister suspected of corruption offences even
though the public perception is that they are corrupt. Even the ACA conduct its
investigations autonomously, the final decision to prosecute rests with the Chief
Public Prosecutor Attorney General (AG). The AG and the Director-General of ACA
are appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on the advice of the Prime Minister.
Unlike in most countries where the AG is a Member of Parliament, Malaysias
position is unique.
2.3 Ethical
Due to my reading from several sources like internet, ethic refers to the study and
development of one's ethical standards. For example feelings, laws, and social
customs can deviate from what is ethical. So it is vital to repetitively examine one's
standards to ensure that they are rational and well-founded. Ethics also refers to the
effort of studying our own moral beliefs and striving to ensure that we, and the
institutions we help to shape, live up to standards that are reasonable and solidly-
based.
If we realise the relationship between corruption and organizational culture,
ethics, organizational structure, and leadership styles in the LPF. Many studies have
been conducted to examine the relationship between these variables. Police corruption
represents the dependent variable, while the organizational culture, ethics,
organizational structure, and leadership styles represent the independent variables.
Moreover, the theoretical framework discourses four independent variables
which were developed based on existing theories of corruption, supported by previous
studies. There are four main theories for the explanations of corruption are The Rotten
Apple Theory, The Organizational Culture Theory, The Opportunity Theory and The
Structure Theory.
Firstly,The Rotten Apple Theory emphasizes the moral failings of individuals,
provides convenient accused, avoids dealing with more difficult issues, and points in
the direction of a simple remedy. For an example, Police officials prefer this
explanation because it allows them to blame a few individuals and prevents them
from investigating larger problems in the department. Moreover, it appears to solve
the problem by firing guilty officers.
Next, The Organizational Culture Theory emphasizes the group or
organization rather than individuals. Thus, corruption emerges because such divergent
behaviour is regarded as appropriate within the individual, and younger members are
socialized by their senior colleagues into these corrupt practices.
Other than that, The Opportunity theory hypothesizes that individual work in
general causes corruption. For an example, they have the opportunity to use excessive
force and steal seized drugs, money, or alcohol without anyone knowing about it
Lastly, The Structure Theory states that new comers learn their behaviour from older
officers who have learned from the officers before them. This means that corruption is
not confined to the lower ranks but extends to all ranks .
Therefore, if any forces able to overcome all this theory they might help
Malaysia from any bribery.

3.0 CONCLUSION
In conclusion, the current view of Malaysia from other countries leads to corrupts. As a
Malaysian, we have to realise bribery and economic growth impact each other both
unidirectional and simultaneously. However, the impact of lower levels of bribery on
economic growth is stronger than the impact of higher economic growth rate on reducing
bribery. It was also found that there may not exist any relationship among these two variables
in some countries.
In addition, sinking the prevalence of bribery would chip in to a higher rate of economic
growth and that in turn could further accelerate the decline in bribe taking a worthy cycle that
can contribute to the economic well-being of more of the world's people.
Therefore, let us starts from this second to strengthen the faith and personal lives is the most
powerful fortress to combat corruption by producing an incompetent society, selfish society,
and producing poor quality work.













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