What they promised.What the record shows.

What we found

The UK Parliament enacted the Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957 on 31 July 1957. It provided for the Federation to become an independent sovereign country within the Commonwealth and for a federal constitution; Malaya achieved independence on 31 August 1957, within the stated four years.

UK Parliament · Parliament of Malaysia

What we found

The Ministry of Education identifies the 1956 Razak Statement and Education Ordinance 1957 as establishing a national education system, a common examination system, and the objective of Malay as the principal medium. I did not locate a cited provision making education compulsory during 1955–59.

Ministry of Education Malaysia

What we found

The Federation of Malaya published Report of the Committee on Malayanisation of the Public Service in 1956; the catalogue records it as a 143-page Government Press publication. A later academic account identifies the accompanying 1956 policy statement, Malayanization of the Public Service: A Statement of Policy. These establish policy and a committee report within the tenure, but this pass did not establish the extent of replacement achieved by 1959.

Federation of Malaya · Maurice A. Crouch

What we found

The independence settlement required approval of a new Federal Constitution. Parliament’s later official publication describes Part II of that Federal Constitution, Articles 5–13, as “Fundamental Liberties.” That is an identifiable constitutional instrument, but the broad promise does not specify which rights or remedies it covered.

UK Parliament · Parliament of Malaysia

What we found

The Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957 provided for an agreement between the Crown and the Rulers and for state constitutions. Parliament states that on 31 August 1957 the Federation had, for the first time, a Head of State, Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Muhammad.

UK Parliament · Parliament of Malaysia

What we found

The Ministry of Education records that the Razak Statement 1956 and Education Ordinance 1957 formed one national education system and recognised the ultimate objective of Malay as the principal medium of instruction. This is an identifiable policy and ordinance in the tenure; the available source does not establish that the manifesto’s proposed single “type” of school was fully achieved by 1959.

Ministry of Education Malaysia

What we found

The National Archives records that Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman declared an amnesty offer to communists on 9 September 1955; 12 million leaflets were distributed, and the five-month campaign brought 73 communists and 12 supporters to surrender. Talks at Baling followed on 28–29 December 1955 and ended without agreement. The archive records a further Merdeka amnesty on 3 September 1957.

National Archives of Malaysia · National Archives of Malaysia

After the tenure

The Emergency was formally ended on 31 July 1960, after the 1959 election.

What we found

I did not locate an Ordinance amendment, gazette notice, or 1955–59 Hansard answer demonstrating such a review or a new withdrawal entitlement. In the 1963 debate, an opposition member said the review had not been done; that is a parliamentary assertion, not sufficient by itself to establish absence.

House of Representatives of Malaysia

What we found

No 1955–59 budget papers, estimates, or audited accounts were located in this pass that establish whether the stated target was reached. The 1963 speech criticises later deficits, but it is not a contemporaneous 1955–59 financial record.

House of Representatives of Malaysia

What we found

A parliamentary question on 25 November 1959 reproduced the commitment and the Education Minister said the Government intended to establish the review committee before the next parliamentary meeting. By 11 August 1960, the Education Review Committee's report was before the House as Command Paper No. 26 of 1960. The Ministry of Education's retrospective history groups the Rahman Talib Report with the Education Act 1961 and describes, among its outcomes, a Malaysian-oriented curriculum and expanded post-primary opportunity. These sources establish the review and subsequent legislation, but do not furnish a neutral, measurable basis for deciding whether the commitment to sustain every other language and culture was fully met.

Parliament of the Federation of Malaya · Parliament of the Federation of Malaya · Ministry of Education Malaysia

What we found

In the 1962 estimates debate, the Government stated that education estimates were $223.5 million for 1962, against $189 million for 1961; it attributed much of the increase to free primary education from 1 January 1962, post-primary schools, religious-instruction grants and student allowances. This is a dated budget record of substantial education measures, but “top priority” is comparative and the available sources do not provide a complete cross-portfolio test.

Parliament of the Federation of Malaya

What we found

The Education Minister confirmed the policy on 25 November 1959 and said the review committee would examine its implications. In the 20 April 1961 royal-address debate, the Government said it would raise the minimum leaving age to 14 by 1963, and described 15 as the ultimate objective to be achieved in stages during the Second Five-Year Plan period. That is a documented staged move during the tenure, not evidence that age 15 had been reached before the 1964 election.

Parliament of the Federation of Malaya · Parliament of the Federation of Malaya

After the tenure

The Ministry of Education's later history says a comprehensive lower-secondary system was introduced in 1965; that is after the GE1 tenure and is not counted as an in-tenure completion.

What we found

The Education Review Committee report was before Parliament as Command Paper No. 26 of 1960. The Ministry of Education identifies the Rahman Talib Report and Education Act 1961 with a Malaysian-oriented curriculum, academic and vocational upper-secondary routes, and expanded schooling opportunity. Those are identifiable policy instruments/actions within the tenure, but the manifesto phrase does not specify a finished state against which the broader re-orientation can be tested.

Parliament of the Federation of Malaya · Ministry of Education Malaysia

What we found

The 1962 education estimates state that $223.5 million was allocated, compared with $189 million in 1961, and attribute the increase largely to the decision to introduce free primary education from 1 January 1962. The measure occurred within the tenure.

Parliament of the Federation of Malaya

What we found

On 26 April 1962, Parliament was told that three 10-kilowatt medium-wave and two 10-kilowatt short-wave transmitters in Penang had provided stronger signals since January 1961; three 10-kilowatt medium-wave transmitters had replaced two old one-kilowatt Malacca units since October 1961; and Kota Bharu was to operate two 10-kilowatt medium-wave transmitters before the end of 1962, with a new studio centre for East Coast programming. The same statement planned further stations by end-1964; the Penang, Malacca and Kota Bharu actions documented here occurred within the tenure.

Parliament of the Federation of Malaya

After the tenure

The April 1962 statement projected planned stations at Johore Bahru, Ipoh, Kuantan and Kuala Trengganu by the end of 1964; that projected date falls after the GE1 tenure.

What we found

The Yang di-Pertuan Agong's ending of the Emergency took effect on 31 July 1960. The National Archives records the 19 April 1960 announcement that the Emergency would end on that date, and the Royal Malaysia Police describes the 31 July end and a Victory Parade on 1 August 1960. The declaration occurred inside the tenure.

National Archives of Malaysia · Royal Malaysia Police

What we found

On 20 August 1963, a parliamentary speaker invoked the 1959 manifesto's Constitution pledge while objecting to a proposed constitutional amendment. Parliament's official history records that Malaysia was declared on 16 September 1963 after agreement among the Federation of Malaya, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak. These sources document constitutional change during the tenure, but “uphold the Constitution” is not specific enough to classify the general pledge from the available record.

Parliament of the Federation of Malaya · Parliament of Malaysia

What we found

No discrete Act, gazette instrument, appropriation, or Cabinet programme explicitly tied to this manifesto projection was located for 10 May 1969–22 September 1970. The official record shows that the elected Parliament was reconvened only in February 1971; the election-period programme was therefore not traceable through normal parliamentary implementation during that interval. This pass does not treat the later Second Malaysia Plan as implementation of this particular manifesto promise.

Parliament of Malaysia · Parliament of Malaysia

After the tenure

The Ministry of Economy identifies the Second Malaysia Plan as 1971–1975, after Tunku Abdul Rahman’s premiership ended on 22 September 1970. It is not treated here as a GE3-manifesto instrument without a source making that link.

What we found

The official OpenDOSM nominal national-accounts series gives GNI per capita of M$1,042 for 1969 and M$1,070 for 1970 (and GDP per capita of M$1,068 and M$1,087 respectively). Those figures identify the economic baseline during the period; they cannot settle a target set for 1985, especially as the promise source does not define “per capita income.” No GE3-manifesto-linked instrument was located in the 10 May 1969–22 September 1970 period.

Department of Statistics Malaysia / OpenDOSM · Bahagian Kabinet

After the tenure

n/a — the stated target year was 1985, beyond the Tunku period. This pass does not assign results achieved under later governments to this tenure.

What we found

A World Bank retrospective, drawing on the historical retail-price series, states that Malaysia’s retail price index rose by an average of 0.7% a year between 1957 and 1970. OpenDOSM makes annual CPI data available from 1960 and defines it as the annual cost of a constant representative basket. These sources establish an outcome measure through 1970, but this pass did not locate a price-control instrument that explicitly implemented the manifesto assurance.

World Bank · Department of Statistics Malaysia / OpenDOSM

What we found

No 10 May 1969–22 September 1970 foreign-exchange measure was found that an official source connects to this manifesto assurance. Bank Negara Malaysia’s chronology records the next listed 1970 operational change—cessation of Saturday foreign-exchange trading from 17 October 1970—after Tunku Abdul Rahman’s premiership had ended. The chronology does not characterise it as implementation of a 1969 manifesto promise.

Bank Negara Malaysia · Bahagian Kabinet

After the tenure

Bank Negara records that, in December 1971, after the Smithsonian exchange-rate realignment, the Malaysian dollar’s USD parity changed from USD1=M$3.06122 to USD1=M$2.81955 following the USD devaluation. This later event is recorded separately and is not attributed here to the 1969 manifesto.

What we found

On 5 July 1976, the Government’s Third Malaysia Plan (1976–80) was presented as the operative development plan. Its education and training programme was oriented toward the country’s manpower needs, and the plan included dedicated chapters on population/employment/manpower and education/training. A contemporaneous World Bank report described the plan's educational programmes as being formulated to orient and expand education and training toward those manpower needs. This is a dated policy instrument within the tenure, but the sources read do not establish that every school leaver became employable; the record is therefore limited to the training/manpower component.

Ministry of Economy · Ministry of Economy · World Bank

After the tenure

The Fourth Malaysia Plan (1981–85) followed the tenure; it should not be used to claim the GE4 promise was completed in 1974–78.

What we found

The Third Malaysia Plan, dated 5 July 1976, states that “petty traders and hawkers in all urban areas will be assisted with credit and infrastructure facilities for their trade.” This is a specific policy instrument inside the tenure and corresponds to the cited pledge, but the material read does not isolate delivery during 1974–78 or establish full coverage of all small traders.

Ministry of Economy · Ministry of Economy

After the tenure

The Fourth Malaysia Plan retrospectively says 5,900 petty traders received assistance for stalls, premises and trading equipment during 1971–80. As that window extends beyond the 12 June 1978 dissolution, it cannot be counted as a tenure-only completion figure.

What we found

On 7 November 1979, the Cabinet Committee's Laporan Jawatankuasa Kabinet Mengkaji Pelaksanaan Dasar Pelajaran was submitted to the Malaysian Government. The report is a dated policy-review instrument within the GE5 parliamentary term, not an Act, gazette, or appropriation. Perpustakaan KPM's digitised description states that its purpose was to review the aims and effects of the existing education system and curriculum under the national education policy, including whether the system met manpower and national objectives. This establishes a review of education policy; it does not, on its own, establish the scale of improved access or quality delivered under this specific manifesto pledge.

Ministry of Education Malaysia · Universiti Malaysia Terengganu Library catalogue

After the tenure

n/a. This pass did not trace later implementation of the report's individual recommendations. The GE5 parliamentary term ended with the next federal election on 22 April 1982.

What we found

Within the term, the Anti-Corruption Agency Act 1982 took effect on 13 May 1982, changing the National Investigation Bureau (NIB) to the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA); the legal-history account reports that the bill had been tabled in the Dewan Rakyat on 19 March 1982 and that the new statute gave the ACA specific powers and jurisdiction. Separately, a United Nations case study records the 1982 campaign for a clean, efficient and trustworthy administration and says that the government introduced the punch-clock system and name tags in 1983 for public servants. These are dated institutional and administrative actions within the 1982–86 tenure. They do not, by themselves, establish that the broad aspiration was fully achieved.

Nik Ahmad Kamal bin Nik Mahmood · Muhammad Rais bin Abdul Karim

After the tenure

n/a for the measures cited above. The 1993 Public Officers (Conduct and Discipline) Regulations fall after the GE6 tenure and are not treated as its implementation record.

What we found

On 19 January 1989, within the GE7 tenure, Mahathir launched the Majlis Perundingan Ekonomi Negara Selepas 1990 (MPEN, National Economic Consultative Council after 1990) at Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra, Kuala Lumpur. His launch speech welcomed the members of the council and described their task as determining the country’s economic future. This is a documented consultative instrument matching the promise’s consultation element. A later Senate debate recorded that MPEN had been established by the Government to enable different sections of society to participate and submit views on the New Economic Policy and policy after 1990. No Act or gazette instrument establishing MPEN was located in this pass.

Prime Minister’s Office · Parliament of Malaysia

After the tenure

The quoted commitment concerns a programme after 1990. This pass verifies the pre-1990 consultation body but has not traced a post-1990 Cabinet decision or programme document back to this precise manifesto wording.

What we found

None found.

Commonwealth Observer Group

After the tenure

The next federal election was held on 24–25 April 1995, after Parliament was dissolved on 5 April.

What we found

None found.

What we found

On 10 July 1991 Mahathir presented the Sixth Malaysia Plan (1991–95) motion in the Dewan Rakyat. The official plan states that government would encourage the private sector to remain the main engine of growth, sustain a macroeconomic environment conducive to private investment, and continue liberalisation and regulatory relaxation to improve the investment climate. These are dated policy instruments within the tenure; the plan does not itself demonstrate a particular wage or job outcome.

National Archives of Malaysia · Government of Malaysia

What we found

The Sixth Malaysia Plan, presented in Parliament on 10 July 1991, sets fiscal and monetary policy objectives of price stability, an export-supporting exchange rate, and a satisfactory balance of payments; it also says the government would strengthen revenue, reduce unproductive expenditure, and synchronise privatisation to improve public-sector finances. This is an identified policy instrument within the tenure. Whether those measures made Malaysia an “attractive investment centre” is not evaluated here.

National Archives of Malaysia · Government of Malaysia

What we found

In a 18 December 1991 Dewan Rakyat answer, the Education Ministry said that, by October 1991 under the Sixth Malaysia Plan, it had spent $1.3 million specifically on Sekolah Rendah Jenis Kebangsaan (Tamil) and $1.7 million on Sekolah Rendah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina). The Hansard records continued provision and upgrading for these school types, but it is not a complete legal test of their “present character.”

Parliament of Malaysia

After the tenure

The Education Act 1996 (Act 550) received royal assent on 15 July 1996 and was gazetted on 1 August 1996, after the GE8 tenure.

What we found

The constitutional provisions named in the promise are identifiable: Article 3(1) states that Islam is the religion of the Federation while other religions may be practised in peace and harmony, and Article 11 provides for freedom of religion subject to stated limits. I did not locate, in this pass, a citable complete legislative history establishing whether and how the government acted on this maintenance commitment during 1990–95; the present constitutional text is therefore background, not a finding of performance.

Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia

What we found

On 6 May 1996 Mahathir tabled the Seventh Malaysia Plan (1996–2000), whose official archive includes a chapter headed “Administrative Improvements For Development”. This is a dated policy instrument relevant to administration, but this pass did not establish a measurable programme-to-promise correspondence sufficient to treat the broad commitment as fully delivered.

Parliament of Malaysia · Ministry of Economy

What we found

Mahathir tabled the Seventh Malaysia Plan for 1996–2000 in the Dewan Rakyat on 6 May 1996. The motion states that it was designed to implement strategies, programmes and allocations for the National Development Policy; the Ministry of Economy describes it as retaining balanced development and strategies for sustained rapid growth and equitable sharing. This is a continuation instrument within the tenure, although this pass does not attempt a project-by-project audit of the plan.

Parliament of Malaysia · Ministry of Economy

After the tenure

The plan’s stated period ran to 2000; its final year fell after the 29 November 1999 GE10 election.

What we found

None found.

Parliament of Malaysia

What we found

The Education Act 1996 (Act 550) received Royal Assent on 15 July 1996 and was gazetted on 1 August 1996. It created the statutory framework for the national education system, including national and national-type schools. This is a relevant education instrument, but it does not itself establish the full, evaluative outcome implied by “a confident future generation.”

Ministry of Education Malaysia

What we found

None found.

Ministry of Economy

What we found

The Environmental Quality (Amendment) Act 1996 (Act A953) came into force on 1 August 1996. The Seventh Malaysia Plan also has a chapter titled “Environment And Sustainable Resource Management”. These are dated environmental-law and planning instruments within the tenure; this pass has not established their effects against the broad manifesto topic.

Department of Environment Malaysia · Ministry of Economy

What we found

On 1 August 1996, Mahathir’s speech at Multimedia Asia stated that the conference’s goal was to launch the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC). The MSC was a specified high-technology development project, and the official Malaysia.gov account dates the MSC initiative to 1996.

Mahathir Mohamad · Malaysia.gov

What we found

The Seventh Malaysia Plan was tabled on 6 May 1996 and includes a chapter headed “Public Sector Programme And Its Financing” and another headed “Finance”. This establishes a contemporaneous planning instrument, but it does not by itself demonstrate the plan item’s undefined standard of prudence; no more specific linked fiscal measure was traced in this pass.

Parliament of Malaysia · Ministry of Economy

What we found

Malaysia.gov identifies the 1996 MSC initiative as the starting point for government digitalisation and lists pilot government systems including electronic document management, frontline e-services, project monitoring, human-resource management and e-procurement. That is a dated administrative programme within the tenure, but the available source does not demonstrate complete implementation across government.

Malaysia.gov · Mahathir Mohamad

What we found

The Education Act 1996 (Act 550) was gazetted on 1 August 1996. It defines a sekolah jenis kebangsaan as a government or government-aided primary school using Chinese or Tamil as its main medium of instruction; section 17 exempts such schools from the rule making the national language the main medium, and section 28 permits the Minister to establish and maintain national-type schools. These are statutory provisions within the tenure corresponding to the reported policy item.

Ministry of Education Malaysia

What we found

The relevant policy instruments pre-dated GE10: Bank Negara introduced selective exchange controls on 1 September 1998, stating that their purpose was to insulate the domestic economy from adverse global developments and regain monetary independence. The IMF's institutional history states that Malaysian authorities did not request financial assistance from the IMF. Within the GE10 tenure, Bank Negara announced further liberalisation of exchange-control rules on 26 March 2003, effective 1 April 2003; its release described the rules as complementary to macroeconomic initiatives for domestic financial-market stability and sustainable development. This is a dated administrative measure, but the sources located do not say that it was enacted specifically to fulfil the manifesto.

Bank Negara Malaysia · International Monetary Fund · Bank Negara Malaysia

After the tenure

n/a. The cited 26 March 2003 Bank Negara action falls within the tenure; the primary manifesto provides no stated deadline in the material located.

What we found

The official Ninth Malaysia Plan (2006–2010) set out strategies, programmes and allocations within the National Mission/Vision 2020 framework during this tenure; this is an implementation instrument for the broad growth commitment, not a measure of achieving Vision 2020.

Ministry of Economy

Independent reporting

The Star, 31 March 2006, "PM unveils RM220bil Ninth Malaysia Plan" reported that Abdullah unveiled the Ninth Malaysia Plan in Parliament.

After the tenure

Vision 2020 remained a long-term target after 2008.

What we found

The Government tabled the Ninth Malaysia Plan on 31 March 2006 as its 2006–10 policy-and-programme blueprint. Its first thrust is titled “To move the economy up the value chain”; Abdullah’s 2006 speech also identified the Third Industrial Master Plan as directed at long-term competitiveness. These are policy instruments, not an independently verified measure that the promised resilient, performance-based economy was achieved.

Ministry of Economy · Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Independent reporting

Al Jazeera, 31 March 2006, "Malaysia aims for smart economy" reported that the Ninth Plan shifted spending towards a "smarter economy" rather than cost competition; The Star, 31 March 2006, "PM unveils RM220bil Ninth Malaysia Plan" reported the plan’s tabling.

After the tenure

The Third Industrial Master Plan’s stated period extended beyond the March 2008 election.

What we found

The Federal Government established the Special Task Force to Facilitate Business (PEMUDAH) on 7 February 2007. Its official account says the body was created to facilitate business through public-private collaboration and regulatory/service-delivery reforms.

PEMUDAH

Independent reporting

reported that PEMUDAH was established in 2007 to support a more flexible, less bureaucratic business environment.

Bernama

After the tenure

PEMUDAH continued after 2008.

What we found

The Ninth Malaysia Plan was issued during the tenure; the Ministry describes it as the strategy, programme and allocation document for the National Mission. This pass did not identify a single dated instrument matching each of agriculture, biotechnology and Islamic finance.

Ministry of Economy

Independent reporting

The Star, 31 March 2006, "PM unveils RM220bil Ninth Malaysia Plan" reported the Ninth Plan’s unveiling.

What we found

Abdullah launched the National Biotechnology Policy on 28 April 2005. MIDA describes it as a policy to make biotechnology a new economic engine and records the establishment of Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation to facilitate the sector; the policy included R&D and technology acquisition among its strategic thrusts.

Malaysian Investment Development Authority · Ministry of Economy

After the tenure

The policy’s stated 2005–20 horizon continued after the tenure.

What we found

The Ninth Malaysia Plan was the tenure's official National Mission implementation document; this pass did not trace a specific rural-growth-centre instrument.

Ministry of Economy

Independent reporting

The Star, 9 October 2005, "Bridging the urban-rural gap" reported that rural people and teachers were among areas expected to receive attention under the planned Ninth Malaysia Plan.

What we found

The National SME Development Council held its first recorded meeting on 13 August 2004, chaired by the Prime Minister. Bank Negara describes its role as setting government policy direction and coordinating support programmes for SMEs; its 2005 annual report records the 2006 National SME Development Blueprint as a Council initiative.

Bank Negara Malaysia · Bank Negara Malaysia

What we found

The Ninth Malaysia Plan made “Expanding the Market for Malaysian Products and Services” a listed programme area. Its June 2008 mid-term review reported increased export share and value in new markets, including Northeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia and Eastern Europe, and reported market entry for selected agricultural and ICT products/services. This is an official contemporaneous progress account, not an independent export evaluation.

Ministry of Economy · Economic Planning Unit

After the tenure

The review’s remaining programme period was 2008–10.

What we found

In his 15 November 2006 policy address, Abdullah said the fiscal deficit had fallen from 5.3% of GDP in 2003 to 3.5% in 2006; this is the government's contemporary retrospective account, not an independent assessment.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini, 30 September 2005, "Salient points of Budget 2006" reported the government’s projection that the fiscal deficit would be reduced to 3.5% in 2006, while noting it would be the ninth consecutive deficit.

What we found

The Ninth Plan mid-term review reports that, using its stated poverty-line-income methodology, overall poverty incidence fell from 5.7% in 2004 to 3.6% in 2007 and hardcore poverty from 1.2% to 0.7%. It also reports changes in its disparity ratios, including Bumiputera:Chinese mean income from 1:1.64 to 1:1.54 and rural:urban from 1:2.11 to 1:1.91. The same document shows poverty remained in 2007; it therefore does not establish the promise to fully eradicate it.

Economic Planning Unit

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini, 26 June 2008, "RMK9: PM garis kejayaan setakat ini" reported Abdullah’s stated reduction in overall poverty from 5.7% in 2004 to 3.6% in 2007 and hardcore poverty from 1.2% to 0.7%; later reported that the rate rose from 3.6% in 2007 to 3.8% in 2009.

Malaysiakini

After the tenure

The plan’s target year was 2010.

What we found

A World Bank paper records that the Ninth Malaysia Plan introduced five development corridors across Malaysia; the official Ninth Malaysia Plan portal confirms the plan's National Mission framework. The cited source does not establish every state-level outcome.

World Bank · Ministry of Economy

Independent reporting

reported that the five economic corridors were launched by Abdullah between 2006 and 2008.

The Edge Malaysia

After the tenure

Corridor development continued after 2008.

What we found

The Ninth Malaysia Plan allocated RM200 billion in development expenditure for 2006–10, with 5.4% for health and 5.0% for housing. This is a dated budget/planning instrument directed at the two fields; the retrieved material does not establish the resulting access or quality of low-cost housing and healthcare during the tenure.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Independent reporting

Aliran, 18 November 2006, "Mission and omission" reproduced the Ninth Plan’s ministry-level development-allocation distribution and criticised the concentration of funds in the Prime Minister’s Department.

After the tenure

The allocations covered 2006–10, beyond the tenure.

What we found

Parliament enacted the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008 (Act 685), which establishes a National Council for Persons with Disabilities and sets out provisions concerning registration, protection, rehabilitation, development and wellbeing. The Act itself provides for commencement by ministerial Gazette notification. This is a federal instrument concerning one named group; this pass did not locate a comparable tenure instrument for Orang Asli or older persons.

Ministry of Health

What we found

None found. Searched a specified labour instrument in this pass.

What we found

The Department of National Heritage lists the National Heritage Act 2005 (Act 645), including the Act’s English and Malay texts. Its official FAQ describes the Act as providing for conservation and preservation of underwater cultural heritage, archaeological reserves/sites and relics. This traces a legislative heritage measure, not a separate environmental measure.

Department of National Heritage · Department of National Heritage

What we found

On 27 March 2004 the government announced the creation of a dedicated Higher Education Ministry. This is a dated institutional action relevant to higher education, but does not establish quality at every education level.

Ministry of Higher Education

What we found

None found. Searches recorded in the search log did not locate a promise-specific action.

What we found

The Ministry of Education says it launched the Education Development Master Plan (PIPP) 2006–10 in January 2007 to detail the Ninth Plan education agenda. Its six thrusts included “empowering national schools” and reducing education gaps. The located source does not demonstrate the manifesto’s separate undertaking to safeguard national-type schools or show that national schools became the school of choice.

Ministry of Education

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini, 26 June 2008, "RMK9: PM garis kejayaan setakat ini" reported Abdullah’s account that education quality and access had been improved through PIPP and the higher-education strategic plan.

After the tenure

PIPP’s stated period continued to 2010.

What we found

The Ministry of Education’s 2013 annual report says RIMUP (Rancangan Integrasi Murid untuk Perpaduan) was institutionalised in PIPP 2006–10 under the “Building the Nation State” thrust. It describes RIMUP as activities to increase interaction among pupils of different ethnicities, religions and school types. This is later official retrospective evidence of a programme instrument; it does not measure its effect on national unity.

Ministry of Education

Independent reporting

The Star, 10 October 2006, "Promoting unity at school" reported a multi-school cultural concert held under RIMUP and described the programme as an Education Ministry effort to encourage unity through school-level cultural integration.

What we found

None found. Searches recorded in the search log did not locate a promise-specific action.

What we found

The government announced the new Higher Education Ministry on 27 March 2004. The ministry's own later history describes it as the first dedicated ministry for higher education.

Ministry of Higher Education

What we found

In a 28 August 2006 speech, Abdullah said his government had introduced Islam Hadhari as an approach to development and set out its ten principles. This establishes the approach's adoption, not a complete measure of the promise.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Independent reporting

reported that Abdullah formally introduced Islam Hadhari as a policy in 2004.

Astro Awani

After the tenure

The approach remained associated with the Abdullah administration after 2008.

What we found

The Ministry's 2022 CEDAW report says the Islamic Family Law (Federal Territories) Act 1984 was amended in 2006 to give a polygamous husband's wife rights to claim matrimonial property and alimony. By contrast, the US State Department's 2007 report says Parliament passed an Islamic Family Law Act in December 2005 that would have weakened a Muslim wife's private-property rights and enhanced men's ability to divorce, take multiple wives and claim an existing wife's property; following protests, it says the Attorney-General's Chambers was reviewing it and it had not been gazetted by 30 June 2007.

Ministry of Women · US Department of State

Independent reporting

reported that the Cabinet put gazetting of the 2005 amendment on hold after groups said provisions were unfair to women and enhanced men’s rights in polygamy and divorce cases. This differs from the government’s later CEDAW account in the action field, which describes a 2006 amendment as giving certain rights to wives in polygamous marriages.

The Star

What we found

KPM describes j-QAF (Jawi, al-Quran, Arabic and Fardu Ain) as a ministry initiative implemented in primary schools in phases from 2005 to 2010. Its stated aims include Qur’an completion before the end of Year 6 and basic Arabic proficiency. That directly corresponds to two specified parts of the promise; the retrieved source does not establish a general syllabus revision beyond the programme.

Ministry of Education

After the tenure

The phased programme continued to 2010.

What we found

Bank Negara says the Malaysia International Islamic Financial Centre (MIFC) initiative was launched on 14 August 2006 to position Malaysia as a centre for international Islamic financial products and services. On 14 September 2006 its secretariat issued guidelines for new Islamic banking and takaful entities to conduct international-currency business, as part of measures to promote Malaysia as a centre for Islamic capital-market, fund-management, banking and takaful services.

Bank Negara Malaysia · Bank Negara Malaysia

What we found

The 2006 Budget raised the monthly allowance for KAFA supervisors from RM500 to RM750 and fixed the allowance for KAFA teachers at RM500, with implementation from 1 January 2006 for the budget’s stated cost-of-living assistance measures. This is a dated welfare measure for religious-education personnel, but the retrieved budget does not show an allowance or welfare instrument for imams.

Dewan Rakyat

What we found

None found. Searched Tabung Haji records in this pass.

What we found

Abdullah launched the National Integrity Plan (PIN) in Putrajaya on 23 April 2004. The Malaysian Institute of Integrity states that it was established in April 2004; these were institutional and policy actions during the tenure.

Perdana Leadership Foundation · Institut Integriti Malaysia

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini, 23 April 2004, "PM launches national integrity plan" reported the launch of the National Integrity Plan and Malaysian Integrity Institute, including the plan’s aims to reduce corruption and abuse of power.

After the tenure

The later National Anti-Corruption Plan describes PIN as an initiative launched in April 2004.

What we found

PIN, launched 23 April 2004, covered government, private sector, political parties, religious institutions, trade unions, NGOs, women, media, youth and students in its integrity programme. This pass did not find a single code applying to all the listed sectors.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi · Perdana Leadership Foundation

Independent reporting

reported the plan’s launch and its stated aim of promoting an accountable, corruption-free society.

The Star

What we found

The Ministry of Education replaced Tatarakyat with Pendidikan Sivik dan Kewarganegaraan in 2005 as a core subject at upper-primary and secondary levels, under Surat Pekeliling Ikhtisas Bil. 6/2004. A later parliamentary reply identifies the curriculum as covering citizens’ responsibility to society and country. This is a curriculum implementation, not evidence of the programme’s effect on civic consciousness.

Ministry of Education · Chang Lee Hoon

Independent reporting

reported that civic education was reintroduced as a separate subject in 2005, and offered the outlet’s criticism that the curriculum did not adequately prepare pupils to understand rights and the roles of state institutions.

Malaysiakini

After the tenure

The discrete subject was later phased out from 2014 and civic elements were reintroduced across specified subjects from 2019.

What we found

The Ministry of Youth and Sports places Rakan Muda’s first phase, focused on youth character development through nine lifestyles, in 1994–2006. The retrieved four-module description of PLKN is from a 2010 publication and does not establish the programme’s modules in 2004.

Ministry of Youth and Sports

What we found

A Dewan Negara reply on 24 May 2006 stated that the government had launched the five-year Pelan Keselamatan Jalan Raya Malaysia 2006–2010. It provided for road-safety education in 7,600 primary schools from January 2007, establishment of MIROS and road-safety departments in every state. MIROS was established in 2007. The plan targeted a reduction in deaths per 10,000 registered vehicles from 4.2 in 2005 to 2.0 in 2010; that target fell after the GE11 period, so this is not a finding that the target was achieved.

Dewan Negara · Ministry of Transport

Independent reporting

reported that the 2006–10 plan targeted a 50% reduction in road deaths by 2010.

mStar

After the tenure

The 2022–30 Road Safety Plan reports that the 2006–10 plan reduced the deaths-per-10,000-registered-vehicles indicator from 4.0 in 2006 to 3.4 in 2010, still short of the 2.0 target; it also reports that the other 2010 target indicators were missed.

What we found

None found. Searches recorded in the search log did not locate a promise-specific action.

What we found

Abdullah’s 28 August 2006 account of the National Integrity Plan (PIN), formulated in 2004, expressly says it covered NGOs together with government, private sector, political parties, religious institutions, trade unions, women, media, youth and students. This evidences a government-wide integrity plan that included NGOs; it does not establish a legal entitlement to participation or an outcome for openness.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

What we found

This is a continuing general commitment; no discrete implementing instrument was traced in this pass.

What we found

No appointment reform or court-infrastructure instrument was located within the project’s GE11 cut-off of 8 March 2008. On 17 April 2008 Abdullah announced a proposal for a Judicial Appointments Commission to identify and recommend judicial candidates, while retaining the Prime Minister’s constitutional role in putting names to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

The Star

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini, 20 April 2008, "Orang awam sertai s'jaya hakim" reported Zaid Ibrahim’s statement that members of the public and professionals would be appointed to the proposed Judicial Appointments Commission.

After the tenure

Parliament passed the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill in December 2008; the implementing regulations cited by the Commission are P.U.(A) 209/2009, dated 1 June 2009.

What we found

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency Act 2004 (Act 633) received Royal Assent on 25 June 2004 and was published in the Gazette on 1 July 2004. APMM’s official chronology says the Act entered into force on 15 February 2005, the agency began operations in the Malaysian Maritime Zone on 30 October 2005, and it was officially launched on 21 March 2006. This is a maritime-border enforcement instrument, not a record of every land and maritime border threat.

Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency · Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency

What we found

None found. Searched a crime-outcome series or instrument in this pass.

What we found

None found. The cited Royal Commission copy and former Foreign Ministry archive article were not retrievable in this repair, so the specific IPCMC recommendation wording and the asserted 14 March 2006 decision status are not retained.

After the tenure

In a 2 November 2016 book-launch speech reproduced by EAIC, Sultan Nazrin Shah said Abdullah had sought to set up a Royal Commission on Police and that resistance led to it being “watered down” to the EAIC.

What we found

None found. Searches recorded in the search log did not locate a promise-specific action.

What we found

Service Circular No. 7/2007, Pemberian Kenaikan Gaji Kepada Pegawai Perkhidmatan Awam Persekutuan Di Bawah Sistem Saraan Malaysia, was issued for federal public-service officers. Contemporary reporting said the 1 July 2007 pay rise applied to civil servants, police and armed forces and ranged from 7.5% to 42%. It is a remuneration measure relevant to welfare, but does not settle other welfare elements.

Public Service Department · New Straits Times reporting

Independent reporting

New Straits Times, 22 May 2007, "Record pay rise: Between 7.5% and 42%" reported that the pay rise would apply to civil servants, police and the armed forces.

What we found

The Public Complaints Bureau developed the Integrated Public Agency Complaints Monitoring System (iSPAAA) at the end of 2007. The later ministry description says some government agencies began using it in 2009; accordingly, the record establishes system development before the GE11 cut-off but not an across-all-frontline-agencies improvement in access or efficiency.

Ministry of Higher Education

After the tenure

Initial use by several agencies began in 2009, and the system was later improved and rebranded as SPAB/SISPAA.

What we found

The Ministry of Finance’s 2004/05 Economic Report says the e-Tanah project was an integrated ICT approach to modernise land-office administration and 24 core land-application processes, with a Penang pilot by the end of 2004 and broader rollout planned for 2006. The Penang land authority records that, after the election, the Finance Ministry directed an open-tender pilot on 9 April 2004 and the e-Tanah Steering Committee set the 24-process scope on 2–3 June 2004. This is specific re-engineering of land administration; it does not establish comparable re-engineering of district offices or all local authorities.

Ministry of Finance · Penang Land and Mines Office

What we found

The Public Complaints Bureau developed iSPAAA at the end of 2007 as a system for monitoring agency complaints. The located record does not give a within-tenure resolution-rate or response-time result; its reported use by several agencies started in 2009.

Ministry of Higher Education

After the tenure

iSPAAA was later improved with the Ministry of Finance and MAMPU and rebranded as SPAB/SISPAA.

What we found

The government treated e-Tanah as an electronic-government project: its project team was established on 1 March 2004, and the first post-election implementation decisions were made in April–August 2004. The official project description says the system supports online payment, receipt printing and payment-status checking, and was intended to improve service delivery and reduce bureaucracy. This traces one e-government implementation, not the breadth of e-government access across all services.

Department of Director General of Lands and Mines · Ministry of Finance

What we found

JPA’s official salary archive records Service Circular No. 7/2007, a grant of salary increases to federal public-service officers under the Malaysian Remuneration System. The JPA’s 2006 annual report describes the public service’s response to the Ninth Malaysia Plan as including policies and procedures on human-capital development. The salary circular is a concrete welfare measure; neither source establishes the promise’s wider work-environment, career-prospect and performance outcomes.

Public Service Department · Public Service Department

Independent reporting

New Straits Times, 22 May 2007, "Record pay rise: Between 7.5% and 42%" reported the public-service pay rise that took effect in July 2007.

What we found

None found. Searched a discrete instrument in this pass.

What we found

None found. Searched a discrete instrument in this pass.

What we found

Malaysia signed the Malaysia–Japan Economic Partnership Agreement on 13 December 2005; MITI identifies it as Malaysia’s first comprehensive agreement and records that it entered into force on 13 July 2006. Abdullah also signed the ASEAN Charter for Malaysia in Singapore on 20 November 2007. These are dated economic and regional-partnership instruments, not evidence of partnerships with every nation.

Ministry of Investment · ASEAN

What we found

The 2004 ASEAN Security Community Plan of Action set out regional conflict-prevention, conflict-resolution and post-conflict peace-building measures, including capacity-building, peacekeeping-centre networking and the use of negotiation, consultation, good offices, conciliation and mediation. It is a collective ASEAN framework in which Malaysia participated, rather than a measure of its individual effect on regional peace and stability.

ASEAN

What we found

In a 5 July 2004 speech, Abdullah identified Malaysia as current chair of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Islamic Summit Conference. This records office-holding but does not independently measure whether the leadership was “influential”.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

What we found

On 12 April 2006 Malaysia submitted its candidature and voluntary pledges for the new UN Human Rights Council. The General Assembly elected Malaysia on 9 May 2006 among the first 47 Council members. This is a dated UN participation record, but does not itself assess activity or establish results on every claimed issue of injustice, oppression or international law.

Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the United Nations · United Nations

What we found

The PMO's 28 August 2006 archive records the government presenting Islam Hadhari as its development approach, including the principles of a just government, balanced development, minority and women's rights, environmental protection and defence. This is evidence of the approach's official articulation, not evidence that Malaysia achieved the projected international standing.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Independent reporting

reported that the approach was intended to present Islam as progressive and tolerant, and characterised it as an effective administrative policy.

Astro Awani

What we found

Najib tabled the Tenth Malaysia Plan on 10 June 2010. The plan framed high income, inclusiveness and sustainability as policy objectives; this is a related framework, not a measure of productivity or income delivery.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (London)

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported Najib’s tabling of the 10MP and its stated objectives of high income, inclusiveness and sustainability. Malaysiakini, 10 June 2010, “Intipati Rancangan Malaysia Ke-10”

What we found

The first Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia opened on 22 June 2011. The Finance Ministry records 250 items at prices up to 40% lower than market prices; it describes Menu Rakyat 1Malaysia meals at RM2 and RM4, without giving a launch date.

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini’s 24 June 2011 visit to the Kelana Jaya outlet reported lower prices for some essentials, while saying consumers had not yet been able to assess the quality of the 1Malaysia-branded products.

Norain Saleh and Norsyafinas Ahmad Sukri

What we found

In a 5 April 2010 Axiata ASEAN Leadership Forum speech, Najib described the New Economic Model as enabling and empowering the private sector while reshaping and energising the public sector. It is a policy statement, not a quantified outcome.

Independent reporting

In a retrospective commentary, Malaysiakini said the NEM was launched before the 10MP and discussed it as a response to inequality and Malaysia’s economic transformation. Malaysiakini, 31 October 2017, “What Najibnomics? It’s Nothing-nomics”

What we found

None found. Searches located the 2011 Economic Census total of 645,136 SMEs, but not a programme return counting SMEs and entrepreneurs assisted under this pledge.

What we found

DOSM's long-run series records 10.6596 million employed persons in 2008 and 13.5454 million in 2013. It records employment levels, not jobs caused by policy or job quality.

Department of Statistics Malaysia

Independent reporting

The Edge reported that the government cited growth since 2011 and programmes including Jobs Malaysia and Skim Latihan 1Malaysia when answering a question on employment; it did not independently assess job quality or causation. The Edge, 23 May 2013, “Wahid: Unemployment rate at ‘respectable’ level”

What we found

The Finance Ministry's 2013/14 Economic Report records a federal deficit of 4.5% of GDP in 2012 and projects 4.0% for 2013. It does not establish the manifesto baseline or address the “without increasing taxes” limb.

What we found

MOF records 181 revised corridor projects in 2010, 162 implemented and 19 in the pipeline, with RM3.4 billion allocated; its 2012/13 report records RM978 million in the 2012 Budget to accelerate the five corridors.

Independent reporting

mStar’s Budget 2012 summary reported the RM978 million allocation to accelerate development in the five regional corridors. mStar, 7 October 2011, “Intipati Belanjawan 2012”

After the tenure

Corridor development periods extended beyond 2013.

What we found

DOSM’s national series records overall poverty at 3.6% (2007), 3.8% (2009) and 1.7% (2012), and hardcore poverty at 0.7% (2007), 0.7% (2009) and 0.2% (2012). It has no 2010 observation, so it does not provide a measurement at the pledge’s stated date.

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported DOSM’s finding that national poverty incidence rose between 2007 and 2009, citing the 2009 household-income and basic-amenities survey.

Malaysiakini

What we found

The 10MP described rural basic infrastructure—roads, water, electricity and communications—as enabling economic activity. It is a related infrastructure action, not an employment or income measure.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (London)

What we found

Malay Mail reported that the GTP treated raising the living standards of low-income households as an NKRA and that BR1M 2.0 paid RM2.91 billion to 6.8 million low-income earners and eligible singles in 2013. This is the outlet’s account of the GTP report.

Independent reporting

Malay Mail reported the GTP’s account of BR1M payments and described the scheme as assistance aimed at low-income households; the figures are attributed to the government’s report. Malay Mail, 12 May 2014, “PM: GTP hit 2013 targets”

What we found

The 2012 Budget identified PR1MA as the agency for affordable, quality homes and recorded its Putrajaya/Bandar Tun Razak pipeline. A parliamentary answer states PR1MA was established under the PR1MA Act 2012 (Act 739).

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the Budget 2012 announcement that PR1MA would be established as a single agency to develop and maintain affordable, quality housing for middle-income households. Malaysiakini, 7 October 2011, “K’jaan umum rumah mampu milik untuk semua”

After the tenure

MOF’s 2012/13 report said the first PR1MA project, launched in Putrajaya in July 2011, was expected to be completed by 2014. Ministry of Finance, 2012, “Economic Report 2012/2013”

What we found

MOH says Klinik 1Malaysia began on 7 January 2010 to provide basic primary care for the urban poor. It records 87 clinics and 1,986,535 visits in 2011, against 3,314,115 cumulative visits from 2010 through December 2011.

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported in July 2010 that Klinik 1Malaysia had been introduced. It also separately reported allegations of malpractice at the clinics in March 2010; that was an allegation reported by the outlet, not a finding in the government account. Malaysiakini, 10 July 2010, “PM: Banyak lagi produk 1Malaysia akan diperkenal”

Susan Loone

What we found

SPAD was constituted on 3 June 2010 under the Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat Act 2010 (Act 714). The separate Land Public Transport Act 2010 is Act 715. The 10MP made SPAD the lead agency and set out MRT implementation.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (London)

Independent reporting

mStar reported in June 2010 that SPAD had been established following passage of the two 2010 public-transport Acts and described its role in improving land public transport.

mStar

What we found

The 10MP announced plans to build 6,300 km of paved roads in Peninsular Malaysia, 2,500 km in Sabah and 2,800 km in Sarawak.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (London)

After the tenure

The plan ran to 2015.

What we found

The 10MP set out implementation of the Klang Valley high-capacity MRT system. No comparably specific aviation action was retrieved in this pass.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (London)

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the 10MP’s proposed high-capacity MRT for Greater Kuala Lumpur, including the reported 150 km network and projected daily capacity. Malaysiakini, 10 June 2010, “Intipati Rancangan Malaysia Ke-10”

What we found

The 10MP planned rural electricity extensions to 59,000 homes in Sabah and 76,000 in Sarawak. It is a 2011–15 plan, later than the pledge’s 2010 deadline.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (London)

After the tenure

The plan ran to 2015.

What we found

The 10MP planned water extensions to 112,700 homes in Sabah and 87,400 in Sarawak, with later 2015 targets of 98% and 95% respectively. This does not supply a 2010 result.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (London)

After the tenure

The plan ran to 2015.

What we found

MCMC says the Prime Minister announced incentives under the National Broadband Initiative on 24 March 2010; its release identifies Universal Service Provision-funded community broadband facilities. Budget 2010 set out the RM11.3 billion HSBB project.

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini’s press roundup reported New Straits Times coverage that the National Broadband Initiative would bring internet access nationwide. Malaysiakini, 26 March 2010, “Headlines online: March 26, 2010”

What we found

None found. A 2006 Hansard reference and 2010 expenditure objectives for New Villages were located, but not the plan itself or a GE12 implementation report tied to it.

What we found

MOF's corridor record includes the East Coast Economic Region, which the Borneo Post says covers Kelantan. The 2012 Budget included an ECER agropolitan scheme in Besut. No operational instrument or programme report expressly using “Kelantan Baru, Kelantan Maju” was retrieved.

Independent reporting

Borneo Post identified the East Coast Economic Region as covering Kelantan. It did not report an operational programme expressly titled “Kelantan Baru, Kelantan Maju”. Borneo Post, 24 June 2012, “Five Corridors: Gateway to prosperity”

What we found

The preliminary Education Blueprint records that primary teachers' minimum pre-service qualification was raised from diploma to bachelor's degree in 2007, before this tenure; it also records study allowances for existing teachers and 31% with at least a bachelor's degree by 2010.

Ministry of Education

Independent reporting

mStar’s report on the 10MP said the proportion of degree-qualified primary-school teachers had risen from 6% in 2005 to 28% in 2009; it did not independently evaluate training quality. mStar, 10 June 2010, “RMK10 - Pembelajaran”

What we found

A 23 June 2010 Dewan Rakyat answer said Mandarin and Tamil teaching in national schools would be expanded progressively and teachers supplied. No retrieved source reported the schools, teacher deployment, or pupil take-up.

Independent reporting

mStar reported Muhyiddin’s plan to implement mother-tongue language teaching in national schools and said 373 Mandarin and 163 Tamil teachers were then teaching in national schools under POL.

mStar

What we found

MOF records that a RM1 billion special fund allocated RM100 million each to 822 Chinese national-type schools and 224 Tamil national-type schools, among other categories, and records school-facility projects.

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the RM1 billion special fund and its stated RM100 million allocations each for Chinese and Tamil national-type schools. Malaysiakini, 7 October 2011, “RM200 juta bantu SJKC dan SJKT”

What we found

None found. Searches on student interaction, school integration and unity programmes did not retrieve a dated GE12 programme record specifically addressing student interaction.

What we found

None found. No retrieved JPA/KPT data stated the additional degree awards, household-income criterion and race-neutral selection required to link an action to this pledge.

What we found

None found. Searches located background references to the pre-election apex-university initiative but no retrieved instrument or dated tenure record matching both autonomy and resources.

What we found

None found. The 10MP contains innovation policy, but no source was retrieved that safely identifies a dated increase in indigenous R&D investment attributable to this pledge.

What we found

PDRM's archived NKRA account reports year-on-year reductions in recorded index crime of 15.4% (2010), 11.1% (2011) and 7.8% (2012), and identifies community-policing and volunteer-patrol measures.

Independent reporting

The Edge reported the GTP’s 2012 account as a 7.6% fall in index crime and a 41.3% fall in street crime. This differs from the PDRM page’s 7.8% index-crime figure. The Edge, 19 March 2013, “Najib: GTP hasn’t been easy but results are in”

What we found

None found. Searches retrieved general anti-drug material but no concrete, dated programme record securely tied to this broad two-part pledge.

What we found

None found. The cited MiDAS conference paper could not be retrieved; its registration, legalisation and departure figures therefore cannot be used. Searches for a retrievable official 6P return did not locate one in this repair pass.

What we found

PDRM recorded a plan to train 12,000 annually toward a 150,000 force by 2011. It says the target could not be achieved because facilities were insufficient and training-centre construction was delayed, and proposed 48,842 further trainees through early 2015.

PDRM

After the tenure

PDRM's revised training period ran to early 2015.

What we found

The retrieved PDRM training record documents the connected personnel-expansion programme but supplies no station/beat-base completion inventory. None found for the specific construction target.

Independent reporting

Daily Express reported in 2012 that a police beat base for Taman Kingfisher was planned by converting a vacant building; it reported a plan, not completion.

Daily Express

What we found

A Johor state-assembly reply records the reactivation and expansion of the Safe City Programme to 149 local authorities from December 2009 to December 2010, with 15 crime-prevention measures. It is a public-place action, not a school- or playground-specific record.

Johor State Legislative Assembly

What we found

PDRM identifies community policing and volunteer-patrol measures among the initial crime-NKRA actions.

What we found

PDRM's training record confirms a training-expansion programme but does not document upgrades to communications, arms, vehicles or technical aids. None found for the full listed package.

Independent reporting

Malay Mail reported the Auditor-General’s 2012 report as recording missing police assets between 2010 and 2012, including firearms, vehicles, walkie-talkies and radios; this is separate from the training action recorded above.

Malay Mail

What we found

The crime NKRA was launched in 2010 with measures including community policing and volunteer patrols; the retrieved PDRM record does not publish a hot-spot deployment inventory.

What we found

None found. No retrieved gazette, police order or PDRM report records a police-district redelineation in the tenure.

What we found

Development of the judiciary's e-Kehakiman began in 2010, initially covering e-Filing, case management, queue management and court recording for civil proceedings.

After the tenure

The same page says e-Kehakiman extended to criminal proceedings at all court levels from 2017.

What we found

None found. No retrieved implementation programme or office-by-office overhaul record was found.

What we found

HRDF records MyCoID phase one launched on 11 February 2010 and phase two on 3 November 2010, automating incorporation-related registrations with named agencies. SSM’s annual report says its gateway was used for online company registration from 6 February 2011.

Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia

What we found

None found. No retrieved rating-system instrument or local-authority results table was located.

What we found

None found. The sole GTP Annual Report URL previously cited is unretrievable, and no replacement source was located in this repair pass for the stated KPI cascade or consequence-management claims.

What we found

None found. No retrieved public-service recruitment data or policy action demonstrates a change in ethnic diversity during the tenure.

What we found

Malaysiakini reported in January 2010 that a 14-day response period for public letters had been made mandatory, with monitoring by the Public Complaints Bureau. This is not the manifesto's three-to-seven-day period.

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the mandatory 14-day response period and that the Public Complaints Bureau would monitor it. Malaysiakini, 14 January 2010, “K’jaan wajibkan 14 hari jawab surat awam”

What we found

EAIC’s FAQ identifies the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 as Act 694 and says it established the MACC. A parliamentary answer discusses section 24 of the Act and penalties; it does not state the Act number or establishment claim.

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported in January 2010 that the MACC chief referred to section 29(4) of the MACC Act when discussing disclosure of complaint information, showing the Act’s use in contemporaneous reporting; it did not report the establishment claim itself. Malaysiakini, 13 January 2010, “SPRM: Tindakan jika dedah aduan kepada media”

What we found

EAIC says the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission was established through the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 (Act 694). No retrieved source separately documents strengthened monitoring or enforcement across Customs, Inland Revenue and local authorities.

What we found

The Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission Act 2009 (Act 700) was gazetted 3 September 2009 and came into force 1 April 2011. EAIC says it receives and investigates misconduct complaints involving 21 listed agencies; its FAQ says MACC is outside EAIC's supervision.

Independent reporting

The Malaysian Bar reported Amnesty International Malaysia’s and Suaram’s criticism of the EAIC Bill; it attributed those organisations’ positions, including their concern that the proposed body lacked independence and power. Malaysian Bar, 13 March 2009, “AIM, Suaram slam EAIC Bill”

What we found

None found. The MACC legislation is not a specific implementation record for the National Integrity Plan.

What we found

None found. Searches located Islam Hadhari as the Abdullah administration's approach but no dated tenure programme or survey establishing the pledged understanding work.

What we found

JAKIM says the Jawatankuasa Mempromosikan Persefahaman Antara Penganut Agama (JKMPKA) ran from 2010 to 2019 and undertook understanding and harmony activities jointly.

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported in April 2010 that an inter-religious understanding committee was being considered, and separately reported objections from the Perak Fatwa Committee and a statement from MCCBCHST about the committee’s work.; Malaysiakini, 13 April 2010, “Mccbchst: Layani kami dengan hormat”

Hazlan Zakaria

After the tenure

JAKIM says the HARMONI committee has operated since 14 August 2020 after a rebranding.

What we found

None found. No dated Department programme record was retrieved that can safely be identified with this pledge.

What we found

None found. The sole cited copy of the purported Ministry implementation guide is a preview-only Scribd user upload; no retrievable original was located in this repair pass.

What we found

None found. The document's own progress panel says guidelines had been developed before the election; no retrieved 2008–13 planning instrument or enforcement record was found.

What we found

None found.

What we found

None found. Searches found broad 1Malaysia material but not a dated, pledge-specific unity-programme action in schools or higher education.

What we found

In his 27 September 2010 UN General Assembly statement, Najib called for a Global Movement of Moderates, saying that the relevant divide was between moderates and extremists of all religions. This is an international initiative, not a measure of all three qualitative descriptors in the pledge.

United Nations

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini’s 2010 year-end review reported Najib’s call for a global group of religious moderates to oppose extremists, and reported that Hillary Clinton supported the proposal during her Malaysia visit. Malaysiakini, 31 December 2010, “Pendedahan Wikileaks tutup tirai 2010”

What we found

In a 5 April 2010 Axiata ASEAN Leadership Forum speech, Najib described the New Economic Model (NEM) as enabling the private sector and tied investment to high-income transformation. No retrieved trade agreement or investment record was sufficiently specific to use here.

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the National Economic Advisory Council’s final NEM recommendations, including discussion of private investment weakness and proposed changes involving GLCs. Malaysiakini, 2 December 2010, “MPEN: Jual GLC bagi biayai dana kekayaan negara”

What we found

None found. MTCP is a long-running capacity-building programme for developing countries, but no retrieved 2008–13 record ties it specifically to the OIC economic agenda.

What we found

Najib’s 27 September 2010 UN statement called for a Global Movement of Moderates across religions. No retrieved source connects that initiative specifically to the Makkah Declaration’s economic agenda.

United Nations

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini’s 2010 year-end review reported Najib’s Global Movement of Moderates proposal as involving people of all religions against extremist groups. It did not connect the initiative specifically to the Makkah Declaration’s economic agenda. Malaysiakini, 31 December 2010, “Pendedahan Wikileaks tutup tirai 2010”

What we found

Najib’s 27 September 2010 UN statement called for a Global Movement of Moderates and described the divide as being between moderates and extremists across religions. It is related dialogue and moderation action, not a record of continuous West–Muslim dialogue.

United Nations

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini’s 2010 year-end review reported the Global Movement of Moderates proposal and reported US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s support for it. It did not report a continuous West–Muslim dialogue programme. Malaysiakini, 31 December 2010, “Pendedahan Wikileaks tutup tirai 2010”

What we found

MTCP provides training, technical advice, scholarships, expert dispatch and related support to developing-country participants. The retrieved page is current and does not quantify its 2008–13 activity, so it establishes the programme's function rather than a tenure result.

Independent reporting

mStar reported that Wisma Putra took over the Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme from 1 January 2010 and, citing its statement, said more than 20,000 participants from 140 countries had benefited since its establishment.

mStar

What we found

Budget 2018 retained BR1M with a maximum household payment of RM1,200 and a single-person payment of RM450.

Free Malaysia Today

Independent reporting

FMT reported the announced payment bands and said the maximum household amount remained RM1,200.

What we found

Budget 2014 continued Baucar Buku 1Malaysia at RM250 for pre-university and higher-education students.

Bernama via Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published Bernama’s contemporaneous account of the Budget 2014 announcement.

What we found

Budget 2014 continued RM100 school assistance for primary and secondary pupils.

Bernama via Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published Bernama’s contemporaneous account of the Budget 2014 announcement.

What we found

Malaysiakini reported that the National Automotive Policy 2014 liberalised manufacturing licences for energy-efficient vehicles, an identified element of the policy revision.

Bernama via Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the policy’s liberalisation provisions; its cited account does not establish the promised car-price reduction.

What we found

A May 2014 report of the Government Transformation Programme’s 2013 results stated that 40 Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia outlets had been built in 2013.

Bernama via Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published the reported 2013 outlet figure.

What we found

A government retrospective says 1Malaysia products were sold at selected petrol stations and hypermarkets; it does not give a rollout date or identify the outlets.

Department of Information

What we found

mStar reported that seven new clinics began operating in 2016, including at PPR Muhibah in Kuala Lumpur and UTC/RTC sites. The previously cited Ministry of Health 2016 annual report said 30 new clinics opened in 2016 and 360 were operating, but its www2.moh.gov.my host is unavailable and no retrievable archive capture was found. The two reported counts are not reconciled here.

mStar

Independent reporting

mStar reported the seven-clinic figure; the unavailable-host Ministry report is retained only as an attributed, unverified comparison.

What we found

A 25 April 2017 parliamentary answer says 44 TASKA 1Malaysia were operating by December 2016, with establishment and operating grants available to qualifying operators.

Ministry of Women

What we found

Budget 2016 allocated RM1.2 billion for telecommunications infrastructure, including increasing stated rural internet speed from up to 5 Mbps to 20 Mbps.

Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published the budget speech, including the stated rural-speed measure.

What we found

Budget 2016 allocated RM260 million for the 1Harga 1Sarawak and 1Harga 1Sabah programmes, described as seeking uniform prices for selected goods nationwide.

Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published the budget speech’s description of the two named programmes.

What we found

None found. The searches located background material listing 1Malaysia products by GLCs, but no retrieved dated action that expanded such products through GLCs and the private sector after GE13.

What we found

Following the May 2013 Cabinet reshuffle, the Housing and Local Government ministry became the Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government.

Ministry of Urban Wellbeing

What we found

None found. The searches returned the 2013 manifesto wording and general local-government material, not a dated measure increasing NGO or civil-society representation in local government.

What we found

KPKT’s 2013 bulletin recorded RM55.9 million for the Public Housing Maintenance Programme to repair public low-cost strata flats, and described the 1Malaysia Maintenance Fund for private low- and low-middle-cost flats.

Ministry of Urban Wellbeing

What we found

KPKT’s 2013 bulletin recorded the Public Housing Maintenance Programme for public low-cost strata flats and the 1Malaysia Maintenance Fund for private low- and low-middle-cost flats.

Ministry of Urban Wellbeing

What we found

None found. The searches returned youth and rent-to-own housing measures, but no retrieved scheme specifically providing public housing for young jobseekers.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

Anjung Singgah Pulau Pinang began operating on 9 June 2014.

Ministry of Women

What we found

PR1MA’s 2016 annual report recorded PR1MA homes at various construction stages as at 31 March 2017.

PR1MA

What we found

PR1MA’s 2016 annual report stated that its homes were priced below market price on average.

PR1MA

What we found

A 21 December 2016 Dewan Negara answer says Cabinet agreed on 3 August 2016 to implement Rent-to-Own for owner-occupied PPR, beginning at named PPR projects in 2017 for applicants unable to obtain bank finance.

Parliament of Malaysia

Independent reporting

Astro Awani reported in September 2014 that the government introduced a PR1MA rent-to-own scheme for applicants facing difficulty obtaining housing loans, describing it as aimed at young people.

Astro Awani

What we found

The National Housing Department's figures record 192 abandoned housing projects, involving 52,745 units, completed in 2017; 15 projects were under rehabilitation that year.

Ministry of Housing and Local Government

Independent reporting

Malay Mail reported Najib’s December 2014 statement that 159 developments, or 74% of abandoned projects then identified, had been revived through government intervention.

Malay Mail

What we found

None found. The searches located maintenance funding for private low- and medium-low-cost flats, but not a retrieved federal takeover of public-housing maintenance.

What we found

None found. A Selangor assembly answer describes the state government’s Rumah Kerajaan Prihatin programme, which predates GE13; it is not treated as federal BN action for this pledge.

What we found

None found. mStar reported a Kelantan state-government plan for Gua Musang squatters, but that state action is not treated as federal BN action for this pledge.

Independent reporting

mStar attributed the Gua Musang plan to the Kelantan state government.

mStar

What we found

Najib launched the Ampar Tenang PPR project on 16 August 2017 for 400 former estate-worker families from four former estates; it was then expected to complete in July 2019.

Malay Mail

Independent reporting

StarProperty reported in March 2017 that RM56 million had been approved for the 400 replacement homes and described earlier delays.

StarProperty

What we found

Budget 2017 increased the first-time-buyer stamp-duty exemption to full exemption for homes up to RM300,000, for 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2018.

Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published the budget speech stating the threshold and period.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

Institut Kanser Negara, Putrajaya commenced operations on 2 September 2013 and provides specialised cancer services. This is a national cancer institute, not evidence of heart and cancer centres in every region.

Institut Kanser Negara

What we found

The Malaysian Dialysis and Transplant Registry’s 2016 report records 208 public dialysis centres in 2016, compared with 187 in 2011. The registry does not establish public facilities in every dense area.

Malaysian Society of Nephrology / National Renal Registry

What we found

None found. The searches located GST relief for specified assistive devices and later fee exemptions, but not a medication-discount card for persons with disabilities.

What we found

None found. The previously cited Health Ministry annual report is on the unavailable www2.moh.gov.my host and no retrievable archive capture was obtained; no replacement retrieved source was located in this repair.

What we found

None found. The searches located individual Rapid Bus services, including Rapid Kamunting, but no retrieved rollout to every state capital.

What we found

None found. The searches located a 2016 accessibility audit for MRT feeder buses and later descriptions of accessible buses, not a retrieved record of facilities being provided on Rapid Bus during the tenure.

What we found

The Transport Ministry records that MRT Line 1 from Sungai Buloh to Kajang became fully operational in July 2017.

Ministry of Transport

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini’s publication of the 2016 budget speech recorded the MRT line’s planned phased openings.

Malaysiakini

What we found

The Transport Ministry records that the Kelana Jaya and Ampang extension lines entered full operation on 30 June 2016.

Ministry of Transport

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini’s publication of the 2016 budget speech recorded the planned extensions.

Malaysiakini

What we found

KTM records the Northern Komuter service beginning between Kamunting and Padang Besar in 2015, its extension to Padang Rengas in 2016, and six-car coaches introduced in the Northern sector in 2017.

KTM Berhad

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported on 5 October 2017 that KTM Komuter's average daily ridership fell between 2015 and 2017; this is the outlet's reporting on use of the service, not a finding about the expansion itself.

Malaysiakini

After the tenure

The Skypark Link began in 2018.

What we found

None found. The searches located Terminal Bersepadu Selatan, which opened in 2011 before the election, but no retrieved action providing integrated bus/rail/taxi terminals in all towns and cities.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

An SPAD announcement mirrored by the spadnews.blogspot.com blog said in November 2016 that taxi permits had been liberalised to individual drivers under the Pajak model; it reported 1,600 applications since 1 September 2016.

SPAD announcement mirror

Independent reporting

paultan.org reported in July 2016 that the proposed liberalisation would give eligible drivers individual permits; it also reported that the prior issue of about 2,000 permits was in 2013.

Mohd Farid Awaludin

What we found

Malaysia and Singapore signed a memorandum of understanding on the Kuala Lumpur–Singapore High-Speed Rail on 19 July 2016.

Bernama via Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published Bernama’s account of the signed MOU and its stated project terms.

What we found

Budget 2014 listed the Ipoh–Padang Besar and Gemas–Johor Bahru double-tracking projects among projects to be implemented.

Bernama via Free Malaysia Today

Independent reporting

FMT published Bernama’s contemporaneous budget report naming both double-tracking projects.

What we found

In April 2015, a Works Ministry parliamentary answer said the fourth-lane widening project at specified PLUS locations was 93% complete and projected to finish before September 2015; the project began in 2012.

Parliament of Malaysia

Independent reporting

The Star reported in May 2014 that the 63.3-km widening project was 62% complete.

The Star

What we found

Najib launched construction and upgrading work for the Sarawak Pan Borneo Highway at the Nyabau–Bakun section on 31 March 2015. The Works Ministry described the launch as delivering the BN manifesto pledge announced in April 2013.

Ministry of Works

Independent reporting

FMT reported in April 2016 that Najib witnessed the project-delivery-partner agreement for the Sabah highway.

Free Malaysia Today

What we found

The East Coast Expressway Phase 2 was fully opened to traffic on 31 January 2015.

Bernama via Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published Bernama’s report identifying the full opening date.

What we found

The West Coast Expressway was launched at Teluk Intan in May 2014; a 2015 report said work in Perak had been carried out, specifically in Teluk Intan.

Malaysiakini · Bernama via Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported both the 2014 launch and the 2015 ministerial update on works.

What we found

Budget 2018 announced abolition of toll collection at Batu Tiga, Shah Alam and Sungai Rasau from 1 January 2018.

Bernama via Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published the contemporaneous report of the announced abolition at the named urban toll points.

What we found

The 2016 National Transformation Programme annual report records the Kampung Abad ke-21 programme, led through Desa Lestari; it says 20 Desa Lestari villages reached the 2016 target and identifies the Rural Business Challenge as another programme component.

PEMANDU

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported in July 2013 that the government targeted 39 villages for the programme and said implementation through Desa Lestari would begin in 2014.

Malaysiakini

What we found

The NTP 2016 report recorded 6,041.7 km of new rural roads delivered nationwide from 2010–2016, including 755.42 km in 2016. It does not allocate this total to Peninsular Malaysia or establish the pledge’s 6,300-km Peninsular figure.

PEMANDU

Independent reporting

Malay Mail reported the NTP’s nationwide 6,041.7-km figure.

Malay Mail

What we found

The NTP 2016 report recorded 6,041.7 km of new rural roads nationwide from 2010–2016, including 755.42 km in 2016. It does not separately report Sabah mileage or establish the pledge’s 2,500-km figure.

PEMANDU

Independent reporting

Malay Mail reported the NTP’s nationwide 6,041.7-km figure.

Malay Mail

What we found

The NTP 2016 report recorded 6,041.7 km of new rural roads nationwide from 2010–2016, including 755.42 km in 2016. It does not separately report Sarawak mileage or establish the pledge’s 2,800-km figure.

PEMANDU

Independent reporting

Malay Mail reported the NTP’s nationwide 6,041.7-km figure.

Malay Mail

What we found

The federal and Selangor governments signed a water-restructuring Heads of Agreement on 1 August 2014, following their February agreement to build the Langat 2 water-treatment plant and distribution system. This addresses the Selangor/Federal Territories portion of the pledge; no corresponding Kelantan action was retrieved.

Malay Mail

Independent reporting

Malay Mail reported the agreement and attributed its description as a long-term Selangor water solution to the parties signing it.

Malay Mail

What we found

An Eleventh Malaysia Plan strategy paper records that, by 2014, 320,000 homes had been connected to clean, treated water under the rural basic-infrastructure programme.

Economic Planning Unit

What we found

The NTP 2016 report recorded that 153,821 houses gained electricity connection nationwide from 2010–2016. It does not allocate the figure to Peninsular Malaysia or establish the pledge’s 6,000-home figure. The previously cited Energy Commission URL is a 404 and no retrievable archive capture was found.

PEMANDU

What we found

Utusan Borneo reported in August 2018 that KKLW data recorded 24,823 rural Sabah homes gaining electricity coverage from 2010 to 2017. This does not establish the manifesto’s 60,000-home figure. The previously cited Energy Commission URL is a 404 and no retrievable archive capture was found.

Utusan Borneo

Independent reporting

Utusan Borneo reported the cited KKLW figure.

What we found

The NTP 2016 report recorded 153,821 houses gaining electricity connection nationwide from 2010–2016. It does not separately report Sarawak connections or establish the manifesto’s 80,000-home figure. The earlier Energy Commission URL is a 404 and the Sarawak Energy report was not retrievable in this repair.

PEMANDU

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

MIDA's 2013 investment-performance report recorded RM161.1 billion in realised private investment and described the RM1.3 trillion private-investment figure as the 2011–2020 ETP requirement. It is a contemporaneous investment record, not a five-year total for this pledge.

Malaysian Investment Development Authority

What we found

The 2018 Budget speech recorded about 2.26 million jobs created against the 3.3-million 2020 target. This is a reported result, rather than a distinct programme identified for the manifesto pledge.

Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

Penang Institute said in its 9 October 2016 labour-market assessment that it found 2.2 million net jobs since the ETP launch and raised concerns about high-skill job creation, vulnerable employment, and youth and graduate unemployment.

Penang Institute

What we found

None found. The searches returned income statistics and the long-term US$15,000 high-income objective, rather than a discrete action addressing the per-capita-income pledge.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

Budget 2014 announced that the Goods and Services Tax would be introduced from 1 April 2015, replacing the Sales and Services Tax.

Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published the Budget 2014 announcement and stated commencement date.

After the tenure

GST was zero-rated from 1 June 2018 by the subsequent government.

What we found

Budget 2017 announced a reduction in the small-and-medium-enterprise rate on its first RM500,000 of taxable income, starting in the 2017 assessment year.

Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published the budget speech’s SME corporate-tax measure.

What we found

None found. The searches located petroleum payments at a 5% rate and later debate over a proposed 20% royalty, not special cash and operating/development funding above 20% of oil and gas revenue for the five named states.

Independent reporting

The Edge reported on 26 July 2018 (its page carries an issue date of 1 August 2018) that Sabah and Sarawak were receiving a 5% oil royalty and described the then-new government's separate proposed 20% mechanism.

The Edge Malaysia

After the tenure

In a 2020 parliamentary reply reported by Bernama on 2 November 2020, the Economy Minister gave petroleum-payment totals for 2008–August 2020 and said Petronas paid 5% of petroleum-product sales directly to Sabah and Sarawak.

What we found

MITI records that its Mid-Tier Companies Development Programme launched in January 2014 as a nine-month export-acceleration programme to develop selected companies' international competitiveness. No retrieved source established a National Trading Company.

Ministry of International Trade and Industry

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

Malaysiakini reported that the Economic Transformation Programme’s 2014 annual report described contracts carved out of mega projects for Bumiputera companies, including the West Coast Expressway.

Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini attributed the contract-carve-out account to the Economic Transformation Programme’s 2014 annual report.

What we found

The 2018 Budget speech announced 1.5 billion additional Amanah Saham 1Malaysia units for the Indian community, up to 30,000 units per investor, and a RM500 million loan fund over five years. These are unit-trust distribution and loan measures; the retrieved speech does not describe RM500 million of equity seed funding or show that they were directed to the pledge’s at-least-3% equity target.

Ministry of Finance

What we found

The Finance Ministry's 2014/15 Economic Report says a Unit Khas Masyarakat India was established in the Prime Minister's Department to coordinate implementation of programmes for the Indian community.

Ministry of Finance

After the tenure

MITRA says that four Indian-community units, including the Special Implementation Task Force, were established in 2014 and were consolidated under SEDIC in 2017; SEDIC was rebranded MITRA in 2018.

What we found

On 5 June 2014, Najib launched the Ramadan Bazaar i-Micro Financing scheme: RM45 million managed by Bank Rakyat, with interest-free loans of up to RM3,000 for petty traders and hawkers. This is microcredit for the named group, but not evidence that the manifesto's RM100 million amount was provided.

Malay Mail/Bernama

Independent reporting

Malay Mail carried Bernama's report of the scheme's launch and terms.

What we found

The Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013–2025, launched in September 2013, set an aspiration for Malaysia to reach the top third of countries in TIMSS and PISA within 15 years.

Ministry of Education

Independent reporting

Free Malaysia Today reported at the launch that the Blueprint set the top-third TIMSS/PISA aspiration.

FMT

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

The Education Ministry postponed the planned requirement for candidates to pass English in SPM, which had been intended to take effect in 2016, on 19 August 2015.

Malay Mail

Independent reporting

Malay Mail reported the postponement and the intended 2016 start date.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate a source that connects a tenure allocation to this full list of school types.

What we found

None found. The searches located policy discussion and school-construction material, but no retrieved dated expansion of single-session schooling.

What we found

The Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013–2025 set out a programme to revamp the Institut Pendidikan Guru and raise entry requirements for teacher training. It records the post-election policy programme, not a completed review of every college.

Ministry of Education

What we found

None found. No retrieved source described the specified simplified system for both Chinese and Tamil schools.

What we found

Budget 2017 provided for completion of 227 schools, including eight new schools. The source does not identify every school type in the manifesto wording.

Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

mStar reported the Budget 2017 school-construction measures.

mStar

What we found

Budget 2017 allocated for upgrading 1,800 science laboratories. It is a science-facility action and does not by itself document the stated Mathematics or higher-order-thinking outcomes.

Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

mStar reported the Budget 2017 laboratory-upgrade allocation.

mStar

What we found

Budget 2017 provided a RM150 monthly allowance for 67,000 special-needs pupils and replacement vehicles for 21 special-education schools. This is related support, not evidence of the promised RM100,000-a-year school incentive.

Ministry of Finance

What we found

None found. The retrieved Budget 2017 record includes maintenance funding for national-type Tamil schools, but no dated conversion of willing SJKTs to fully aided status.

What we found

None found. Budget 2017’s teacher-tablet allocation is not treated as evidence that ICT laboratories were set up in all schools that required them.

What we found

None found. The searches located general TVET policy material but no retrieved source establishing both the school-to-college transformation and the 20% enrolment figure.

What we found

Budget 2017 allocated RM132 million to improve access to free pre-school education in government schools, stated to benefit 200,000 children. It does not establish coverage of all school types.

Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

mStar reported the Budget 2017 pre-school measure.

mStar

What we found

The Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013–2025 set out teaching, leadership and subject-matter-expert career pathways and a revised fast-track progression approach. It is a policy programme for the teaching workforce, not a record that 420,000 teachers received fast-track promotion.

Ministry of Education

What we found

Budget 2017 announced an initiative to increase broadband service at public universities to up to 100 gigabits per second. It is a public-university broadband measure, not a record of free Wi-Fi at every public-institution campus.

mStar

Independent reporting

mStar reported the announced public-university broadband measure.

What we found

Budget 2017 allocated tablets as teaching aids for 430,000 teachers. This is not treated as a school laptop-ownership scheme.

Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

mStar reported the teacher-tablet allocation.

mStar

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate a source connecting annual recruitment of 4,000 officers to this commitment.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. The retrieved record of 1,800 motorcycles concerns a pre-election patrol initiative and does not establish delivery of the promised additional 5,000 vehicles during this tenure.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. Searches did not identify an action to maintain or strengthen the Police Commission that is connected to this commitment.

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate a tenure action specifically applying the 6P programme under this commitment.

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate an implementation record for a SafeCam programme linking private and public CCTV systems.

What we found

None found. The material retrieved on CCTV concerned earlier installations and did not connect a tenure expansion to this commitment.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

Astro Awani reported in 2013 that PDRM would add 50,000 Police Volunteer Reserve members to help control crime. The report records a stated recruitment action, not a completed-recruitment total.

Astro Awani

Independent reporting

Astro Awani reported the stated 50,000-member recruitment plan.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

A 2017 parliamentary answer recorded JPA’s RM200,000 launch grant for a ministry or government department to establish a workplace TASKA and a RM180 monthly childcare-fee subsidy for each child of qualifying civil servants. It records government-office support, not a roll-out in GLCs or the private sector.

Ministry of Women

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate a tenure law change specifically tightening sexual-abuse and workplace/home harassment law.

After the tenure

The Anti-Sexual Harassment Act 2022 was enacted after the tenure.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate evidence of the promised monthly space in shopping complexes.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

Malaysiakini’s reproduction of the Budget 2015 speech stated that the government would intensify youth volunteerism through 1M4U and introduce MyCorp, with RM10 million for MyCorp’s international welfare and socio-economic volunteer activities.

Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reproduced the budget statement. The earlier phl.hasil.gov.my primary link is dead and no retrievable archive capture was obtained.

What we found

In March 2015, the Metro WiFi project made free Wi-Fi available at PPR Bandar Tun Razak. This is an urban public-housing action, not evidence of rural or semi-urban coverage. The previously cited article’s 44-complex figure is not relied on here because it was not retrievable for confirmation.

Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the project and its participating agencies; the unconfirmed 44-complex figure is omitted.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate a tenure review or amendment connected to performing-arts and culture entertainment law.

What we found

None found. The eKasih poverty database is not, on the retrieved material, established as the promised unified cross-assistance database.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate a tenure action establishing Brickfields as the stated model zone.

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate a special court established for native customary rights issues during the tenure.

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate a source connecting a tenure gazettement with states to this commitment.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. The appointment of a Minister in the Prime Minister's Department does not, by itself, establish the promised non-Muslim-matters remit.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. The searches located statements and religious programmes but no retrieved dated initiative specifically presented as implementing this commitment.

What we found

None found. The searches located general wakaf-development material but no retrieved record sufficiently tying a dated federal action to this specific state-authority cooperation commitment.

What we found

None found. No retrieved budget measure or tax instrument was located that increased the stated exemption.

What we found

None found. Land allocation is commonly a state matter; no retrieved federal action was located and state allocations are not treated as federal pledge delivery here.

What we found

None found. The searches found general budget and state-assistance material, but no retrieved record of a federal measure encompassing the full stated group.

What we found

Budget 2017 raised the JAKIM imam allowance to RM850 for 15,000 imams, provided a one-off RM500 payment for 16,000 bilal and siak, and raised the Guru KAFA allowance to RM900 for 33,000 teachers. The measures are allowances; the retrieved source does not establish the pledge’s service-based salary structure.

Department of Information

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reproduced the Budget 2017 speech containing the religious-affairs allocations.

Malaysiakini

What we found

JAKIM said that RM80 million was allocated in 2017 to 819 registered Sekolah Pondok, Sekolah Menengah Agama Rakyat and tahfiz institutions. This is assistance to named religious-education institutions, not a record that all SAR students gained access to government infrastructure.

JAKIM

What we found

Budget 2017 allocated RM50 million to registered Sekolah Pondok and RM50 million to government-aided religious schools under its school improvement and maintenance fund. JAKIM separately reported RM80 million for registered pondok, SMAR and tahfiz institutions in 2017; the sources use different institution categories and are recorded separately rather than reconciled.

Ministry of Finance · JAKIM

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reproduced the Budget 2017 speech’s school allocations.

Malaysiakini

What we found

By 6 March 2014, MyProcurement had published 8,886 open-tender contracts, according to an analysis of the public record. This documents disclosure of open-tender contracts, not necessarily every procurement contract.

Kuang Keng Kuek Ser

Independent reporting

Data journalist Kuang Keng Kuek Ser reported the published-contract dataset and its coverage through 6 March 2014.

What we found

None found. Searches did not identify a statute, gazette or administrative order establishing the proposed MACC Service Commission.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

Version 2.0 of the Auditor-General's Online Dashboard was launched on 26 March 2015, providing an enhanced online channel for public access to the Auditor-General's Report in a timely manner.

PEMANDU

What we found

None found. The retrieved record says 14 dedicated corruption courts were established in 2012, before this manifesto, and does not show additional courts during the tenure.

What we found

None found. Procurement-bidder integrity declarations are not evidence of integrity pacts for MPs or state assembly members.

What we found

None found. Material found on the Transformative Salary Scheme describes elements introduced before the May 2013 election, so it is not attributed here as a tenure action under this manifesto.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

MITI recorded 21 Urban Transformation Centres in operation by March 2018, providing government and private-sector services in major cities as one-stop centres.

Ministry of International Trade and Industry

Independent reporting

Free Malaysia Today reported in September 2017 that Najib said UTCs had been implemented in 20 locations.

FMT/Bernama

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate a defined implementation of "Merakyatkan Perkhidmatan Awam" connected to this commitment.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate a discrete tenure action that can be connected specifically to this commitment, rather than Malaysia's general continuing foreign-policy position.

What we found

ASEAN's Kuala Lumpur Declaration was adopted on 22 November 2015 by the heads of government of all ASEAN member states, including Malaysia; ASEAN formally established the ASEAN Community, including the ASEAN Economic Community, on 31 December 2015.

ASEAN · ASEAN

What we found

Malaysia was elected to a non-permanent UN Security Council seat on 16 October 2014 with 187 of 192 votes; its term ran from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2016.

United Nations

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the election result, vote total and term dates.

Malaysiakini

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

In 2016 Malaysia introduced the Large Scale Solar auction and Net Energy Metering schemes. The renewable-energy roadmap describes LSS as a reverse auction for private utility-scale solar projects and NEM as allowing renewable-energy owners to sell excess electricity to distribution licensees.

Sustainable Energy Development Authority Malaysia

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

In a December 2015 Malaysiakini analysis, Ong Kian Ming reported that the River of Life project had an RM4.4 billion figure quoted by its Greater KL/Klang Valley director, including RM3.4 billion for river cleaning; he identified 34 RoL-related contracts, six with named successful tenderers worth about RM858 million. This records project expenditure and contracts, not the pledge's separate laws, by-laws or UNDP components.

Ong Kian Ming

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published Ong Kian Ming's attributed analysis of the River of Life project's funding and contracts.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. Searches did not locate a tenure legal amendment specifically tightening illegal-deforestation law in strategic conservation areas.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

GST was set to 0% from 1 June 2018. The Dewan Rakyat record identifies P.U.(A) 118/2018, dated 16 May 2018, as the amendment that set the tax rate at 0%; P.U.(A) 119/2018 revoked the earlier Zero-Rated Supply Order. The Ministry of Finance announced the 0% rate on 16 May 2018.

Dewan Rakyat Hansard · Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported that GST would be charged at zero per cent from 1 June 2018.

Malaysiakini

What we found

The Cabinet reactivated the National Action Council on Cost of Living (NACCOL) on 17 August 2018; its first Majlis Tertinggi meeting was on 27 September 2018. Separately, the government paid BSH 2019 to targeted low-income households: the Finance Ministry recorded RM4.2 billion to almost 3.9 million approved households.

National Action Council on Cost of Living Secretariat · Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the May 2019 BSH payment and its eligibility bands.

Malaysiakini

What we found

BSH was administered as an income-targeted cash-transfer programme in 2019. The Finance Ministry recorded RM4.2 billion across all 2019 payment phases, to almost 3.9 million approved households, with child additions. That is a concrete targeted-distribution measure, but does not settle the whole, open-ended “sharing national wealth” promise.

Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported that BSH 2019 used household-income bands and child additions.

Malaysiakini

What we found

The PMO said in May 2019 that a National Affordable Housing Council had been created and was to coordinate agencies and work toward one million affordable homes over two terms; this is an institutional step, not evidence that the numerical construction promise was completed.

Prime Minister's Office

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported that the National Affordable Housing Council had been established and that its first meeting considered the 2018–2028 one-million-home programme.

Malaysiakini

What we found

PTPTN stated on 26 June 2018 that deferment of repayments for borrowers earning below RM4,000 a month would follow further study and told borrowers to continue repayment in the meantime. I found no operative PTPTN deferment instrument for that RM4,000 threshold during the PH tenure.

PTPTN

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported PTPTN chairman Wan Saiful Wan Jan apologising that the promised deferment for borrowers earning below RM4,000 had not been delivered.

Malaysiakini

What we found

The PMO said in May 2019 that removing PLUS toll required RM30 billion, while describing the pledge as delayed. This is evidence of consideration, not abolition.

Prime Minister's Office

Independent reporting

FMT reported Mahathir saying that abolishing PLUS toll collection would require about RM30 billion.

Free Malaysia Today

What we found

The 2020 budget material set out the Program Subsidi Petrol (PSP): eligible BSH recipients were to receive RM30 monthly for cars or RM12 for motorcycles, with the first transfer planned for April 2020 covering January–April. The contemporaneous record is a scheduled scheme, not evidence of the planned payments being made before PH left office on 24 February 2020.

Jabatan Penerangan Malaysia

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the announced RM30 monthly car and RM12 motorcycle support under the new subsidy mechanism.

B Nantha Kumar

What we found

Mahathir launched MY100 and MY50 unlimited monthly passes on 1 December 2018. MY100 cost RM100 for 30 days on specified Klang Valley services and MY50 RM50 for buses; the passes were available for use from January 2019.

Astro Awani · The Edge Malaysia

Independent reporting

Astro Awani reported Mahathir’s launch of the MY100 and MY50 unlimited passes.

Astro Awani

What we found

PeKa B40 began nationwide on 15 April 2019, with registered private general practitioners providing health screening. The retrievable statement does not establish the manifesto's RM500 basic-treatment benefit at private clinics.

Ministry of Health

Independent reporting

New Straits Times reported PeKa B40 beginning on 15 April and private clinics joining the scheme in Sarawak.

Melvin Joni

What we found

At MAHA on 22 November 2018, Mahathir said the government was framing a review of the National Agrofood Policy 2.0 for 2021–2030, alongside initiatives intended to raise productivity and the incomes of farmers, livestock breeders, fishers and agro-entrepreneurs. The policy itself is identified by the Agriculture Ministry as the 2021–2030 National Agrofood Policy, after the PH tenure. Thus the contemporaneous PH record is policy development and announced initiatives, not an adopted new food-security policy in the tenure.

Prime Minister’s Office · Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security

Independent reporting

Utusan Malaysia reported Mahathir saying the government was drawing up the 2021–2030 National Agrofood Policy.

Utusan Malaysia

After the tenure

The National Agrofood Policy 2021–2030 was formulated after the tenure.

What we found

None found.

What we found

During the final 2019 sitting, Parliament recorded the first reading of the Constitution (Amendment) (No. 2) 2019, which would have prevented appointment as prime minister after two prior terms. No enacted constitutional amendment is identified in the record before PH left office.

Parliament of Malaysia

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported Mahathir’s October 2018 statement that the prime minister’s term would be limited to two terms.

Malaysiakini

What we found

For 1MDB, the Finance Ministry recorded the return of US$322 million in assets from the US Justice Department and S$50 million from Singapore in May 2019, for use against 1MDB debt. For FELDA, the Dewan Negara record says the government agreed RM6.23 billion in grants, loans and guarantees and records 2019 financing and cash disbursements; an earlier Dewan Rakyat answer records forensic-audit findings being reported to police. A 2018 Tabung Haji restructuring transferred assets through Urusharta Jamaah; the Ministry of Finance’s archived Bernama report describes RM19.9 billion in sukuk and cash. These are documented interventions in three named entities; this pass did not identify a comparable tenure instrument resolving the MARA component or evidence that all four scandals were resolved.

Ministry of Finance · Dewan Negara Hansard · Dewan Rakyat Hansard · Ministry of Finance/Bernama

Independent reporting

FMT, carrying a Reuters report, reported the RM6.23 billion FELDA financial-support package and its proposed debt restructuring.

Free Malaysia Today/Reuters

What we found

In his Invest Malaysia address on 19 March 2019, Mahathir said the Cabinet Special Committee on Anti-Corruption had approved a proposal for the MACC chief commissioner’s appointment to go through a parliamentary select committee and that the MACC Act would be amended. The address is a contemporaneous government statement of an approved reform direction; this pass found no cited amendment to the MACC Act taking effect in the PH tenure that implemented that appointment process.

Prime Minister’s Office

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the government’s agreement in principle to move appointment of the MACC chief commissioner to a parliamentary select committee, while noting constitutional amendment would be needed.

Kow Gah Chie

What we found

Mahathir said on 21 November 2018 that the plan to separate the roles had been put on hold after a study. A later parliamentary answer (2021) still described a study and proposed constitutional and legal amendments, rather than an already-separated office. No separation instrument was identified for the PH tenure.

Malay Mail · Parliament of Malaysia

Independent reporting

Malay Mail reported that Putrajaya had deferred separating the Attorney General and public-prosecutor roles.

Malay Mail

After the tenure

The 2021 answer says the study had identified proposed amendments but still required a government decision.

What we found

Six bipartisan parliamentary select committees, including one on state–federal relations, were formed in December 2018 to scrutinise the federal government. Parliament’s subsequent record also identifies the committee as in place in January 2020. This was a structural parliamentary change, but not evidence that every part of the broad authority-restoration promise was completed.

Malaysiakini · Parliament of Malaysia

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the announcement of six new bipartisan parliamentary select committees.

Malaysiakini

What we found

The Constitution (Amendment) Act 2019 (Act A1603) was gazetted on 10 September 2019. It amended Article 119 to lower the voting age to 18 and enable automatic voter registration. Parliament records that the Article 119 changes came into operation on 15 December 2021, after the PH tenure. The statute was an electoral-system reform during the tenure, but its core operational effect followed later.

Parliament of Malaysia · Bernama

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the July 2019 constitutional amendments lowering the voting age and providing for automatic registration.

M Fakhrull Halim and Shakira Buang

After the tenure

Undi18 and automatic registration took effect on 15 December 2021.

What we found

In a 19 November 2019 oral answer, the Prime Minister’s Department said a political-contributions bill was being finalised after research and stakeholder engagement, under National Anti-Corruption Plan initiative 1.2.5, and would be tabled once complete. The answer records drafting rather than an enacted mechanism; no bill enacted before the PH government ended was identified.

Parliament of Malaysia

What we found

None found.

What we found

The government tabled the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission Bill 2019 in July 2019. Parliamentary debate then returned it to a special select committee; the Malaysian Parliament Journal’s comparison table records that the bill was later withdrawn on 26 August 2020. This provides a traceable police-accountability measure, but it was not an enacted PH-tenure commission and does not by itself establish the broad military-and-police outcome.

Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission · Augustine Leonard Jen

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported that the IPCMC Bill had been tabled and described its proposed powers and structure.

Malaysiakini

After the tenure

The IPCMC Bill was withdrawn on 26 August 2020.

What we found

JPA’s 2019 annual report states that it had driven a public-service reform agenda, describing planned organisational and workforce changes and reforms aimed at governance, integrity and delivery. This is a formal agency record of the reform programme; it is not an instrument that measures fulfilment of the broad “empower” outcome.

Public Service Department (JPA)

What we found

On 15 April 2019, a The Edge Markets report republished by the Finance Ministry quoted Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng saying the PH government had cleaned government-linked companies of political interference. No tenure-wide GLC-governance code or Act is cited here.

The Edge Markets

Independent reporting

The Edge Markets reported Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng’s statement that institutional reform was needed and quoted his claim that the government had removed political interference from GLCs.

The Edge Markets

What we found

The Finance Ministry reported on 24 July 2019 that wider use of open competitive tenders and zero-based budgeting was in place, and gave January–May 2019 fiscal figures. It is evidence of procurement and budgeting-process changes, not proof that all procurement generated maximum value. A later MoF disclosure lists 101 PH-era direct-negotiation projects worth RM6.61 billion, which also shows that open competition was not the only procurement route used.

Ministry of Finance · Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published Lim Guan Eng’s account that open competitive tenders and zero-based budgeting had affected government finances; it is attributed reporting of the Finance Minister’s position.

Lim Guan Eng

After the tenure

The direct-negotiation disclosure was published after the tenure and concerns PH-era projects.

What we found

PH formed a Special Select Committee on States and Federal Relations and a Special Cabinet Committee on MA63. The ISEAS retrospective records that the parliamentary committee was gathering information and intended to finalise recommendations in March 2020, but the PH government collapsed in late February before that report. This is a documented institutional route toward federalism reform, not a completed restructuring of federal powers.

Tricia Yeoh

Independent reporting

Astro Awani reported that a parliamentary select committee on MA63 issues was to be formed.

Astro Awani

After the tenure

The planned committee report was not finalised before the February 2020 change of government.

What we found

In April 2019, the Housing and Local Government Ministry told the Dewan Negara it was studying local-authority elections for implementation in 2021, had formed a ministry committee, held three engagement sessions and was studying overseas models and public acceptance. In the interim, the Federal Territories Ministry had created a council of Kuala Lumpur MPs to discuss DBKL direction and policy with the mayor and management; the Hansard explicitly says that was not a local-authority election. These are preparatory/consultative changes, not a transfer of powers or completed local election system.

Dewan Negara Hansard · Dewan Rakyat Hansard

What we found

The cited accession release is no longer retrievable in this repair pass. Wisma Putra's 8 May 2019 release says that, following the Cabinet decision announced on 5 April, Malaysia sent its withdrawal letter to the UN Secretary-General on 29 April 2019.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Independent reporting

Astro Awani reported UN confirmation that Malaysia’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute took effect on 29 April 2019.

Astro Awani

What we found

At the May 2019 anniversary, the PM said the Anti-Fake News law had been suspended pending repeal. The Anti-Fake News (Repeal) Bill then passed the Dewan Rakyat on 9 October 2019 and the Dewan Negara on 19 December 2019.

Prime Minister's Office · The Star

Independent reporting

The Star reported the Dewan Negara’s approval of the repeal.

The Star

What we found

The consolidated text of the Universities and University Colleges Act records that the Universities and University Colleges (Amendment) Act 2019 (Act A1582) took effect on 15 March 2019 and deleted paragraph 15(2)(c). The remaining section expressly permits a university student to join a political party, subject to listed restrictions. This is a specific higher-education legal amendment; it does not settle the broader promise concerning a creative generation free from oppression.

Laws of Malaysia

What we found

The Finance Ministry reported that it had implemented zero-based budgeting and wider use of open competitive tenders, and published Budget 2019 expenditure material online. Those are identifiable budget/process transparency measures; they do not by themselves establish the broad integrity outcome for all budget processes.

Ministry of Finance · Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published Lim Guan Eng’s account of wider open tenders and zero-based budgeting; it is attributed reporting of the Finance Minister’s position.

Lim Guan Eng

What we found

Mahathir launched the Shared Prosperity Vision 2030 on 5 October 2019. His launch text describes it as a national blueprint for 2021–2030 and says full implementation was expected from 2021. It was therefore a long-horizon policy launched during PH’s tenure, rather than evidence of delivery of the broad economic outcome by February 2020.

Prime Minister’s Office

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini published a guide to the Shared Prosperity Vision 2030 when it was launched.

Malaysiakini

After the tenure

The policy’s stated horizon was 2030.

What we found

MIDA reported total approved investments of RM201.7 billion in 2018, up from RM200.6 billion in 2017; it separately reported RM115.6 billion approved in July–December 2018, after the May change of government. It recorded foreign direct investment in approved projects at RM80.5 billion, 48% above 2017. These are official investment data during the tenure, not causal proof that every business and trade process was simplified as promised.

Malaysian Investment Development Authority

What we found

GST was set at 0% from 1 June 2018. The 7 August Hansard records SST as scheduled for 1 September; a Finance Ministry archive subsequently records SST as implemented on that date.

Dewan Rakyat Hansard · Ministry of Finance archive

Independent reporting

The Star reported the introduction of SST on 1 September 2018.

The Star

What we found

JTKSM's 2018 annual report described fair-employment principles and labour-law reform as references when the Commission was established; it does not record an established Commission. Searches of MOHR/JTKSM, Parliament and the federal-gazette catalogue located no constituting Act, appointment or Commission record before 24 February 2020.

Jabatan Tenaga Kerja Semenanjung Malaysia

What we found

Minimum Wages Order 2018, P.U.(A) 265, set RM1,050 monthly nationwide from 1 January 2019. It equalised the regional rate, but did not reach the RM1,500 first-term figure before the tenure ended.

Ministry of Human Resources

Independent reporting

FMT reported the nationwide rate as RM1,100 from January 2019, whereas the action source’s Minimum Wages Order 2018 records RM1,050; the two accounts differ.

Free Malaysia Today

What we found

Parliament passed the Workers' Minimum Standards of Housing and Amenities (Amendment) Bill 2019 on 15 July 2019. Bernama reported that it extended minimum housing and basic-facility standards to workers in all sectors; it is a defined labour-standard measure, not a measure of the broader quality-jobs commitment.

Bernama

Independent reporting

Bernama reported that Parliament passed the 2019 workers’ housing-and-amenities bill, extending minimum standards to all sectors.

Bernama

What we found

i-Suri registration began on 15 August 2018. The previously cited EPF annual-report URL is not publicly readable in this repair pass, so this entry does not rely on it for the scheme's detailed terms.

Department of Information Malaysia

Independent reporting

Utusan Malaysia reported that i-Suri had been introduced on 15 August 2018 and gave its registration total in December.

Utusan Malaysia

What we found

None found.

What we found

JAKOA records RM1.50 million allocated in 2019 for surveying/acquiring Orang Asli settlement land, with RM1.43 million spent on nine locations (675.77 hectares, 1,702 heads of household), and reports separate 2019 socio-economic project spending. These are identified programme records, not evidence that the whole welfare commitment was settled.

Jabatan Kemajuan Orang Asli

What we found

The hosted Malaysia's Roadmap Towards Zero Single-Use Plastics 2018–2030 says it was to be implemented from 2018 to 2030. The cited page does not establish a launch date or identify the launching ministry.

Ministry of Energy

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the ministry’s claimed launch of the 2018–2030 single-use-plastics roadmap in its review of ministries.

Malaysiakini

What we found

A Sarawak Legislative Assembly publication records the formation of the MA63 Steering Committee chaired by Mahathir, and a Sarawak state consultative committee was established in response on 6 November 2018. This confirms committee formation, not completion of the review and implementation.

Sarawak State Legislative Assembly

Independent reporting

Utusan Borneo reported that the federal Cabinet had agreed on the MA63 special-committee structure in October 2018.

Utusan Borneo

What we found

Budget 2019 allocated RM5.009 billion to Sabah and RM4.346 billion to Sarawak, including Pan Borneo Highway, water, electricity, infrastructure, health and education projects and economic corridors. Allocations and projects are traceable inputs; the source does not establish the promised faster growth outcome.

Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the RM5.009 billion Sabah and RM4.346 billion Sarawak allocations in Budget 2019 and the listed infrastructure projects.

Malaysiakini

What we found

None found.

What we found

None found.

What we found

The same 2019 Budget specified construction/upgrading of water, electricity, infrastructure, health and education facilities in Sabah and Sarawak. It is a documented infrastructure commitment rather than a demonstrated improvement in education and healthcare quality.

Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported that Budget 2019 listed water, electricity, road, health and education infrastructure for Sabah and Sarawak.

Malaysiakini

What we found

Budget 2020 retained Sabah and Sarawak as the two largest recipients of development expenditure (RM5.2 billion and RM4.4 billion) and identified water, electricity, road, school and clinic projects, including projects benefiting 145,000 residents. This identifies financed work relevant to rural/interior services, not the entire welfare outcome.

Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

FMT reported the RM5.2 billion and RM4.4 billion development-expenditure allocations for Sabah and Sarawak in Budget 2020.

Free Malaysia Today

What we found

Mahathir launched the Security and Public Order Policy (DKKA) on 3 October 2019. Bernama reported its six core areas and 21 strategies included strengthening national-border security; that is a federal security-policy step, rather than a specific instrument establishing Sabah sovereignty.

Bernama

Independent reporting

Bernama reported the launch of the DKKA and its focus on sovereignty, border security and public order.

Bernama

What we found

The government tabled Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2019 (D.R.7/2019) to restore the Article 1(2) 1963 wording, listing the Borneo States separately. A written parliamentary answer says it was not passed on 9 April 2019 because it lacked the required two-thirds majority. The bill was a constitutional-status measure, not a transfer-of-powers instrument, and no transfer is established by these sources.

Parliament of Malaysia · Parliament of Malaysia

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported that the Article 1(2) amendment passed its policy stage but failed to obtain the two-thirds majority at second reading.

Haspaizi Zain

What we found

None found.

What we found

None found.

What we found

The Universities and University Colleges (Amendment) Act 2019 (Act A1582) came into operation on 15 March 2019. It deleted paragraph 15(2)(c), and the remaining section expressly permits a university student to join a political party, subject to listed restrictions.

Laws of Malaysia

What we found

The Higher Education Department issued Guidelines for the Implementation of the Inclusive for Disabilities Policy in HEI on 6 September 2019. This records a sector-specific accessibility/inclusion measure, not all measures needed by persons with disabilities.

Higher Education Department

Independent reporting

IKIM reported that the inclusive-education guidelines for persons with disabilities were launched in September 2019.

IKIM

What we found

The DKKA was launched on 3 October 2019. Its reported areas included public security and order, drugs, border security and organised crime, with six core areas and 21 strategies. It is a policy framework, not a record that crime and social ills were eliminated.

Bernama

Independent reporting

Bernama reported the launch of the DKKA and its areas of focus, including public security, drugs, borders and organised crime.

Bernama

What we found

Cabinet approved the National Community Policy on 23 November 2018 and Mahathir launched it on 17 February 2019. The official yearbook describes a framework for empowered local communities and eight clusters including social services, vulnerable groups, and sports/recreation. It is relevant to neighbourhood institutions, but does not demonstrate the whole family-and-neighbourhood promise.

Department of Information · Bernama

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported Mahathir’s launch of the National Community Policy and its community and family focus.

Malaysiakini

What we found

The National Community Policy, approved in November 2018 and launched in February 2019, placed community empowerment and cooperation with government, NGOs and the private sector within its framework and included social entrepreneurship among its clusters. It is not evidence that the promised charities/non-profits commission was created.

Department of Information · Bernama

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported Mahathir’s launch of the National Community Policy.

Malaysiakini

What we found

None found.

What we found

On 4 February 2020, the Malaysian Youth Council reported that its vice-president Lim Swee Bok had been appointed an MPKR member and that the Council had held its first meeting at the National Unity Department. This is direct evidence of the promised body operating before the tenure boundary.

Majlis Belia Malaysia

Independent reporting

The Malaysian Youth Council reported that its vice-president was appointed to MPKR and attended the Council’s first meeting at the National Unity Department.

Majlis Belia Malaysia

What we found

Mahathir launched the National Anti-Corruption Plan 2019–2023 on 29 January 2019. It set out 115 initiatives across political governance, public administration, procurement, law enforcement, legal/judicial and corporate-governance risk areas. A plan is an identifiable institutional measure, not evidence of the broad reputational outcome.

Prime Minister's Office · Bernama

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the launch of the National Anti-Corruption Plan 2019–2023.

Faisal Asyraf

What we found

DKKA's reported core areas included strengthening national-border controls; the report identifies cross-border crime and smuggling of goods and migrants among the threats it addressed. It does not identify human trafficking, which is expressly named in the pledge.

Bernama

Independent reporting

Bernama reported DKKA’s border-security focus and its reference to cross-border crime and smuggling.

Bernama

What we found

The cited 23 March 2019 joint statement is no longer retrievable in this repair pass. A 3 December 2019 Malaysian UNGA statement on Palestine called for international action and continued support for UNRWA.

Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the UN

What we found

The government launched the Foreign Policy Framework of the New Malaysia on 18 September 2019. Its official framework says the 2018 UNGA address had been adopted unanimously by the Dewan Rakyat as the basis of the new foreign policy and describes a more proactive international role. This is a policy framework, not a measurement of Malaysia's standing in all institutions.

Prime Minister's Office · Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the launch of the Foreign Policy Framework of the New Malaysia and Mahathir’s description of a more proactive international role.

Malaysiakini

What we found

GST was set at 0% effective 1 June 2018, within 100 days; the broader cost-of-living initiatives were not separately traced.

Dewan Rakyat Hansard · Ministry of Finance

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini’s 100-day review reported that the GST promise was implemented through the zero rate on 1 June.

Malaysiakini

What we found

On 31 May 2018, the Finance Ministry said RON95 would remain at RM2.20/litre and diesel at RM2.18/litre. From 7 June, RON97 was to be set by a managed float. A later targeted-subsidy proposal was postponed in January 2020.

Ministry of Finance · Parliament of Malaysia · Ministry of Finance

What we found

The FELDA White Paper was tabled in Parliament on 10 April 2019, outside the 100-day period. Bernama reported its new aid scheme and the 2019 Official Year Book records a RM6.23 billion 2019–25 recovery package, including RM2.0 billion to write off settlers' loan interest. This is a later recovery/interest measure, not a record of the promised abolition of imposed unnecessary debts within 100 days.

Bernama · Department of Information

Independent reporting

FMT, carrying a Reuters report, reported the RM6.23 billion FELDA financial-support package and debt restructuring.

Free Malaysia Today/Reuters

After the tenure

A later government announced conditional adjustment of parts of settlers' loans in 2021; it falls outside this tenure.

What we found

i-Suri registration began on 15 August 2018, within 100 days. The retrievable source establishes the registration date but not all detailed terms of the main-manifesto design.

Department of Information Malaysia

Independent reporting

Utusan Malaysia reported that i-Suri was introduced on 15 August 2018.

Utusan Malaysia

What we found

P.U.(A) 265 fixed one RM1,050 monthly rate throughout Malaysia from 1 January 2019; that was after the 100-day deadline.

Ministry of Human Resources

Independent reporting

FMT reported a standardised RM1,100 national minimum wage from January 2019, whereas the action source’s Minimum Wages Order 2018 records RM1,050; the two accounts differ.

Free Malaysia Today

What we found

Utusan Malaysia reported that 433,000 blacklisted borrowers were given relief and that repayments for earners at or below RM4,000 were postponed. However, PTPTN's 26 June 2018 statement said the RM4,000 deferment would follow further study, told borrowers to continue repayment, and gave the blacklist figure as 429,945. The underlying circular or instrument was not located in this repair pass.

Utusan Malaysia · PTPTN

Independent reporting

FMT reported that borrowers were to be removed from the immigration blacklist, while financial-credit blacklisting would remain and the RM4,000 deferment mechanism was still under study. This differs from Utusan Malaysia’s report that repayments at or below RM4,000 had been postponed; the action source’s PTPTN statement likewise said the mechanism remained under study.

Free Malaysia Today · Utusan Malaysia

What we found

As the 100-day deadline approached, The Straits Times reported that no RCI had been set up. Parliament's July 2019 order paper still contains a question asking when the government would establish RCIs for 1MDB, Tabung Haji, FELDA and MARA. Searches of Parliament, PMO and the federal-gazette catalogue found no RCI appointment for those four matters before the PH tenure ended; the government used other processes, including the FELDA White Paper.

The Straits Times · Parliament of Malaysia

Independent reporting

The Straits Times reported at the 100-day point that no RCI had been set up.

The Straits Times

After the tenure

The Tabung Haji RCI was appointed on 20 January 2022, after the tenure.

What we found

ISEAS records that the Special Cabinet Committee on MA63 was formed in October 2018, after the 100-day period. A Sarawak Legislative Assembly publication records that a state consultative committee was established in response on 6 November 2018.

Tricia Yeoh · Sarawak State Legislative Assembly

Independent reporting

Utusan Borneo reported that Cabinet agreed the special MA63 committee structure in October 2018.

Utusan Borneo

What we found

PeKa B40 began nationwide on 15 April 2019, after the 100-day period. The retrievable statement records registered private GPs for health screening, not the promised RM500 basic-treatment benefit.

Ministry of Health

Independent reporting

New Straits Times reported PeKa B40 commencing on 15 April 2019 and private clinics joining it in Sarawak.

Melvin Joni

What we found

Malaysiakini contemporaneously reported cancellations/reviews involving HSR, MRT3 and ECRL, but this pass did not locate a Cabinet paper or project-order instrument establishing the promised comprehensive review.

Malaysiakini

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini’s 100-day review reported the HSR cancellation, MRT3 cancellation and ECRL work suspension; FMT separately reported that these project decisions were linked to the 100-day review pledge.

Malaysiakini · Free Malaysia Today

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. The reporting located concerned PLUS's tolling technology and toll-hike deferrals, not a phased PLUS toll reduction, abolition, or return to public ownership.

Independent reporting

reported that the minister described deferring toll hikes as more practical than abolishing tolls.

Free Malaysia Today

What we found

None found. Results included discussion of FELDA/state land coordination, not a National Land Council reform easing farmers' land access.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. Searches found continuing input and paddy-production subsidies, not the specified progressive switch to output subsidies.

What we found

None found. Results included BUDI Agri-Komoditi cash assistance and private digital-farmer projects, not a government input-choice card or e-wallet.

What we found

Budget 2024 included RM100 million for Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM) to eradicate poverty. The retrieved reporting does not establish a corresponding addition to Yayasan Usaha Maju.

Free Malaysia Today

Independent reporting

FMT's budget report lists the RM100 million AIM allocation.

What we found

None found. The searches located targeted Rancangan Makanan Tambahan and school aid, not a free breakfast for every pupil; BSH was not continued under that name.

What we found

None found. Searches located JKM's means-tested Bantuan Kanak-kanak, including a current per-child rate, but did not establish the promised universal monthly birth-to-six benefit as a new tenure action.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. Results concerned ordinary PPR development and policing initiatives but did not identify dedicated funding for neighbourhood/community policing in low-cost housing.

What we found

The Minimum Wages Order 2024 set RM1,700 as the minimum monthly wage from 1 February 2025, with a later date for employers with fewer than five workers. This is a dated minimum-wage measure; the report does not establish the full manifesto policy design.

Malaysiakini/Bernama

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the Order's amount, coverage and commencement dates.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

The Dewan Rakyat passed the Gig Workers Bill 2025 on 28 August 2025. Malaysiakini reported that it created a social-protection framework for more than 1.2 million gig workers; later reporting said the Act was gazetted on 31 December 2025 and was to be brought into force after implementation mechanisms were finalised. The retrieved sources do not establish the pledge's RM10,000 life-insurance design.

Malaysiakini/Bernama · Malaysiakini/Bernama

Independent reporting

Malaysiakini reported the passage and subsequent gazettement/implementation plan.

What we found

None found. SIP materials treat expiry of a service contract as a category of job loss, but the searches did not locate a new extension of the special allowance to contract workers.

What we found

None found. Results were for voluntary i-Saraan/i-Simpan arrangements, not automatic EPF registration regardless of age or the specified first voluntary-contribution support.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

The Finance Ministry reported that on 27 July 2023 the government announced financing guarantees of up to 120% for first homes priced at up to RM300,000. This is related housing-finance action; the report does not identify it as a RM3bn JaminPinjam fund.

Bernama/MoF

What we found

In June 2023, Putrajaya announced Penang PPR units would be available for purchase or through a 20-year rent-to-own option. This is a route to ownership for that project, not evidence of a national tenant-ownership route.

Free Malaysia Today/Predeep Nambiar

Independent reporting

FMT reported the purchase and rent-to-own options for the Penang project.

What we found

None found. FMT reported calls for a Residential Tenancy Act and rental tribunal, but this was advocacy and not an expansion of the existing housing tribunal.

What we found

In March 2023 the housing minister said RM50m was allocated to replace old and damaged PPR lifts. This addresses a maintenance problem but is not evidence that the government took over low-cost-apartment maintenance.

Free Malaysia Today/Bernama

Independent reporting

FMT reported the minister's account of the PPR lift allocation.

What we found

On 9 June 2023, MoF said the 100% first-home stamp-duty exemption for purchases not above RM500,000 continued under the i-MILIKI/HOPE initiative through 31 December 2023. The report does not specify the promised extension to subsale units.

Malay Mail

Independent reporting

Malay Mail reported the continuation and its stated dates.

What we found

The ministry said that Program SULUNG began in 2022, before this government took office, and that in 2023 it was expanded to waive tuition fees for 10,000 first entrants from B40 families at public universities. It is related assistance reducing the need for education borrowing, although it was described as a fee waiver rather than the named scholarship.

Ministry of Higher Education

What we found

None found. Searches found general TVET foundation support, but no Pioneer Scholarship or sector-specific programme covering care, modern agriculture and green work together.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. Searches returned other youth discounts and e-wallet programmes, not an upgraded Kad Siswa for the stated age group.

What we found

In December 2023, AirAsia said it would continue the Ministry of Transport's FLYsiswa e-voucher programme in 2024 on 45 routes between Peninsular and East Malaysia. This is related student air-fare assistance, not the promised RM199 fare and two tickets per year.

AirAsia Newsroom

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. This pledge names no specific measure; no action is attributed to it.

What we found

None found. Results covered employer levy-funded courses and wider training funds, not an individual RM500 account for workers aged 18–30.