Corruption and Islamization in Malaysia

Abstract

The current ethical and social dilemma experienced by each country globally has become more challenging. The increase in the case of fraud, malpractice and corruption among civil servants mainly is worrying globally as well as locally. Malaysia as a developing country is also no exception from this problem. Social moral problems recently grow rapidly and become more chronic regardless the age, race or religion. The writing of qualitative concept paper with analysis content method attempts to obtain an answer to the question of integrity, value among the community by introducing numerous of policy and inculcation of Islamic Value campaign since a decade ago. Therefore, this paper aims to analyse plans introduced by the government to overcome it and to what extends it give impacts on the integrity and value among the community and civil servants. The findings indicate all the campaigns, policies introduced have not affected the civil servants especially in their involvement in performing corruption acts and malpractice. It is hoped that a comprehensive and accurate plan can be introduced and implemented to all in the effort to form Malaysia as a country of zero corruption and malpractice.

Spirituality Discipline in Building Insaniah Values for Selected At-Risk Youth Group in Malaysia: A Literature Review

“…They have a greater propensity than their peers to engage in or be subject to risky behavior, including school absenteeism, risky sexual behavior, delinquency, violence, and substance use and abuse. The consequences of these risky kinds of behavior are extremely costly to young people in terms of their ability to make a successful transition to adulthood and include such negative outcomes as school dropout, unemployment (Kasim, 2023;Kasim & Salleh, 2023a), adolescent pregnancy (Rozmi et al, 2017), addiction (Ab. Rahim, 2019;Ibrahim, 2009), incarceration (Ibrahim et al, 2012), and social exclusion, (Hasanah et al, 2023).…”

“…Rahim (2019). According to Kasim (2023), if the spiritual discipline is not addressed holistically, this is becoming more acute among at-risk youth. As a result, the primary motivation for this paper is to instill Islamic values and spiritual disciplines in at-risk Malaysian youth by investigating how the Quran and the excellent character of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) rekindle man's relationship with God.…”

Application of the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) in Identifying the Components of the Islamic Affairs Index Instrument

“…Although the Malaysian government has consistently integrated Islamization into many existing sectors (Kasim & Hoesni, 2021), several issues related to Islamic affairs have arisen in recent years. Based on previous studies, there are several issues connected to Islamic affairs, among them are fake halal stamps and certificates ( In addition, since all these issues impact the sphere of Islamic affairs, all these issues should not be addressed separately.…”

Five Important Considerations for the Development of Anti-corruption Education in Malaysia for Young People

“…Over the years, researches has been done to find solutions to curb corruption (e.g. Haw et al, 2020;Kasim & Hoesni, 2021). Besides that, the government also allocated funding for the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) as the sole agency to fight corruption, a national anticorruption plan, two government transformation programmes and national integrity plan (Muhamad & Gani, 2020).…”