Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Bahasa Malaysia Version of CISM


The Malaysian Institute of Integrity (IIM) took the initiative to translate the "Corporate Integrity Assessment Questionnaire - CIAQ" into the Malay Language or Bahasa Malaysia (BM).  This is in view of the increasing need of using the BM version of the instrument among  public sector organisations.  The instrument has been professionally translated by the Malaysian Institute of Translation (ITN).  On the second day of IIM's 2-day workshop, participants were tasked to review the translation and were given the opportunity to further improve its contents.   Since it is a translation, participants were reminded that the contents should mirror the original's English version.  Two leading academics from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)  were tasked to lead the discussion.  Prof Dr Ishak and Prof Dr Hasnah were part of the Steering Committee that developed the CIAQ in 2010.  The Accounting Research Institute (ARI) sent the Head of the Corporate Integrity System Research Cluster, Associate Professor Dr Jamaliah and her team members to the event.  At the end of the second day, the group has unanimously endorsed the instrument.