The committee also said it had met and studied other individuals and groups who had submitted their earlier representation on institutional reform earlier. ― Picture by Yusof Mat Isa

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — The Pakatan Harapan government-appointed Committee for Institutional Reforms said today it is open to further public alert on structural defects and other complaints and suggestions on governance.

It added that the representations “should be for the purpose of institutional reform and institutional issues and not about any personal grievances or individual misconduct of public officers”.

“To other individuals and groups who wish to alert the Committee about institutions that have structural defects or have failed to function according to the law or have poor governance or ineffective decision-making processes or inadequate redressal mechanisms, please submit written representations by 28 May 2018 to the Secretariat, Committee for Institutional Reforms, at Level 32, Ilham Tower, Jalan Binjai, 50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with an email copy to [email protected] ,” it said in a statement released by the Council of Eminent Persons.

The committee said it will study the submissions and invite the volunteers for a face-to-face meeting if necessary.

The committee also said it had met and studied other individuals and groups who had submitted their earlier representation on institutional reform earlier.

It added that some of them whom it did not name will be asked to attend a closed-door meeting on these dates: May 28, 29, 30 and June 1, 4, 8, 10, 12, 13, 18.

The five-member committee was set up on May 14 and comprises National Human Rights Society president Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan; Universiti Malaya law professor Emeritus Professor Shad Saleem Faruqi; retired Court of Appeal judges Datuk KC Vohrah and Datuk Mah Weng Kwai; and National Patriots Association president Brigadier-General (Retired) Mohamed Arshad Raji.