Enforcement and Corruption in Malaysia

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Enforcement and Corruption in Malaysia

By bigpumpkin | May 24, 2007

I’m not sure to what degree this happens in other cities around the world because I have lived only in London and KL for a long enough period to justify knowing the ins and outs of a city’s soul, but in KL, two things that stick out like a sore thumb is enforcement and corruption. Sure, we have a lot of rules. But they’re all made to be broken.

Today, I found myself on a construction site: Level 13 Menara TA One. Nobody had a hard hat on. Just as someone in front of me walked on, a bundle of steel bars fell out of nowhere and missed her by inches. The noise deafened my ears. The lady had angels watching over her…..

Then I went downstairs to a completed floor, Level 11 to be exact. A recent renovation showed that the ceiling had been lowered without the existing sprinklers lowered (eg. if your sprinkler is usually 10 centimetres from the ceiling, it was now 2 centimetres - they just built around it). It is all about making money and cutting corners.

I wonder which contractor Alicia is using these days.

No wonder I gave up architecture in Malaysia.

However, now I’m realising that this applies not only in the construction industry but in all aspects of our everyday life. Pharmaceuticals give Doctors lots of presents to push their drugs. Judges are sent on holidays. Products are sub-standard, houses especially. Now, even cars.

Where is the Quality Control? Where is the enforcement for those that break the law?

Frustrated.

I don’t like bringing up Tee here.

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