ASEAN Secretariat holds anti-corruption workshop
As part of efforts to strengthen the ASEAN Secretariat in the area of corporate governance, an anti-corruption workshop was held for staff of the Community and Corporate Affairs Department (CCAD) on October 26, 2016. The workshop aimed to raise awareness of CCAD officers on fraud and anti-corruption issues.
“This workshop is in line with the recommendation of the High Level Task Force (HLTF) on strengthening the Secretariat,” said Mr Lee Yoong Yoong, Director of Community Affairs Directorate of the ASEAN Secretariat in his opening remarks. “While the CCAD is the first to go through this workshop, the aim is to expand and extend the participation to involve the other Departments, namely Political-Security, Economic, and Socio-Cultural, in the ASEAN Secretariat in the near future. The end-in-mind is to eventually create a strong corporate governance environment and greater anti-corruption awareness culture in the ASEAN Secretariat,” he added.
During the course of the workshop, CCAD staff were briefed by representatives of the Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) or Corruption Eradication Commission of the Republic of Indonesia on fraud and anti-corruption concepts, such as illegal business conducts, types of undesirable business and corporate behavior, risks and legal implications of fraud, as well as the best industrial practices of businesses.
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) provided support to this workshop.
Press-release at the official ASEAN web-site