Encourage easy access and free flow of information to the people for good governance, the Raja Muda of Perak Raja Dr Nazrin Shah said.
People who were well informed were in a better position to make informed decisions while those who were badly informed would rely on half-truths and lies and non-credible sources of information or they might continue to remain ignorant, he added.
Raja Nazrin said that without proper information about processes and regulations, the public was vulnerable to bureaucratic harassment, overcharging and demands for bribes.
“The people welcome and appreciate a government that is approachable and consultative, and one that guides rather than directs.
“It is, therefore, only logical that the call for good governance should and must go hand-in-hand with greater democratisation,” he said in his keynote address at the opening of the international conference on The Challenges of Democratisation and Good Governance in the Malaysian Public Sector organised by Universiti Malaya here yesterday.
Raja Nazrin said that among the other characteristics of good governance was that it could not be justified by illegal or legally suspect actions.
“Unless the governors live well within the law, there can be no hope that the governed will do so,” he added.
On public officials, Raja Nazrin said that while they should be accorded sufficient powers to deliver good governance, there must be restraints on that power so that the general interest for all, and not the special interests of a few, were served.
Source: The Star
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