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Malaysian children as young as four will be given comics on the evils of corruption, as the country’s anti-corruption commission turns to live-streamed court cases, films of scandals and other media outreach to expunge a scourge that is rooted deep in the nation’s society and politics.
Corruption dogs the reputation of the Southeast Asian nation, which has seen a succession of former prime ministers implicated in the theft of public funds running into billions of dollars. Perhaps the most notorious of those is Najib Razak , who remains in jail on convictions linked to the plunder of state coffers through the 1MDB fund .
The solution lies in turning the culture of corruption around among the country’s youth, according to Azam Baki , chief commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
“This is so that they see corruption as something not good,” he said on Thursday. “It will be presented in a simple way, be it as a comic or digital format.”
He said he had held discussions with two local universities to develop a syllabus targeted at preschoolers about the perils of corruption.
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