KUCHING: Six Sarawak government agencies will be involved in the MS ISO 37001: 2016 Anti-Bribery Management System (ABMS) pilot project starting this year, says State Secretary Datuk Amar Jaul Samion.

       He said these were the Sarawak Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts Ministry; Chief Minister's Department; Forest Department; Islamic Religious Department; Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC); and Regional Corridor Development Authority (Recoda).

       "The regulations provided (under ABMS) are... to curb impropriety such as bribery, abuse of power and malpractice as well as leakage, from occurring,” he said at the launch of the project here on Tuesday (Feb 8).

       According to Jaul, ABMS is an internal control system for an organisation to detect, prevent, operate, enforce, evaluate and improve anti-bribery management effectively.

       He added that the anti-bribery actions to be taken by the pilot project will serve as a benchmark and reference for other ministries, departments and agencies to implement similar initiatives to proactively develop quality and transparent regulations. – Bernama