Public Perception on the Factors Affecting Corruption in the Public Sector as Perceived by the Public / Mohd Farhan Gou Rahman and Mohd Hafiz Hamdan

After Malaysia gained its independence on 31 August 1957, the struggle of Malaysia to develop its country until now was continued. Since attaining its independence, Malaysia has experience many astonishing change in its public sector from time to time until today. One of the issues that never end is regarding to the corruption. Corruption is like a virus that can threaten life because it can broadcast actions to other individual as a bad culture that soaks into the community and led to destruction. Thus, it harming the country condition if the government letting such trends practiced by the public servant and even the citizen itself. The human history since the day one has ample evidence of the consequence of corruption where such phenomenon still continues to hit and penetrate the system of world society today. The threat of corruption exists in any social system, economy and politics of a country (Isu Rasuah Di Malaysia, 2008) where it also happening not specifically in particular countries but also in developing country like Malaysia itself.