IACD climate action / Indonesia business integrity / Malaysia defence planning

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International Anti-Corruption Day 2019: time to act against corruption and the climate crisis.  “For action against climate change to be effective, we urgently need to shift perspectives and step up efforts towards transparency, accountability, and integrity. We must make good governance the cornerstone of the fight against climate change.”

Transparency International: https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/International_AntiCorruption_Day_2019

 

Business must improve integrity in antigraft drive (Opinion).  “regardless of the stops and starts in the government’s anticorruption drive, the business sector needs to gear up its knowledge, sensitivity and capacity regarding ethical conduct in every step of business practices, to enable sustainable, consistent integrity.”

Heru Prasetyo/The Jakarta Post: https://www.thejakartapost.com/academia/2019/12/09/business-must-improve-integrity-in-antigraft-drive.html

 

White Paper: Towards open, accountable defence planning.  “the White Paper has shown the way for more accountability and transparency in policy planning and procurement. One of the commitments stated in the White Paper is a joint capability development plan, which will be jointly developed by all three services of [Malaysian Armed Forces], the Ministry of Defence and other related ministries.”

Malaysiakini: https://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/502516

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