Hadi Awang slams corruption, says non-Muslims ‘root’ of it

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Study quoted by PAS to back “roots of corruption” claim also said don’t generalise findings

A LOCAL study that PAS based their non-Bumiputeras and non-Malays being the “roots of corruption” position on also included a disclaimer about its findings not being generalisable.

PAS central committee member Dr Mohd Zuhdi Marzuki recently defended party president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang for making the controversial statement last month, saying it was based on an unnamed local survey.

According to him, between 2010 and 2014, 88% of 449 people who were convicted of giving bribes were non-Malays: 57.46% were Chinese, 30.51% were Indians and only 12.03% were Malays.

This was the same finding published in The Size and Costs of Bribes in Malaysia: An Analysis Based on Convicted Bribe Givers paper written by lecturers Dr Christine Siew-Pyng Chong and Prof Dr Suresh Narayanan and published in the Asian Economic Papers journal in 2017.

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