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Malaysia

Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy. It has a parliamentary system of government selected through regular, multiparty elections and is headed by a prime minister. The king is the head of state, serves a largely ceremonial role, and has a five-year term. The kingship rotates among the sultans of the nine states with hereditary Malay rulers. The general elections are regarded by observers as generally free and fair. State-level Islamic religious enforcement officers have authority to enforce some criminal aspects of sharia. There were reports that members of the security forces committed some abuses. The government arrested and prosecuted some officials engaged in human rights abuses, although civil society groups alleged impunity.

The overall score indicates that there are severe risks of potential human rights violations in this country. This may also include the tourism sector. Relevant risks for the tourism sector are, e.g.:
  • Serious restrictions on freedom of expression, media and internet freedom, incl. censorship
  • Extensive gender-based violence
  • Trafficking in persons
  • Child labor
  • Threats of violence against LGBTQ+ persons

For better comparability, we have converted the original scores of the indices to a uniform scale of 1-100 (1 most negative, 100 most positive).

In the following table you find these recalculated values and the original score in brackets behind them.

For information and a link to the original index click on "?" in the table.

The Overall Score is the geometric mean of all converted values for each country. It is subcategorized in five risk categories with colour gradations that can be seen in the map.

You can find more details on the methodology here.

39/100
10,0/100 (5)
80,7/100 (0,807)
79,3/100 (0,793)
54,0/100 (4,6)
63,0/100 (37,0)
37,5/100 (T2wl)
68,2/100 (0,682)
57,0/100 (0,57)
54,2/100 (55,0)
53,0/100 (53)
41,2/100 (41,2)
50,0/100 (50)
13,0/100 (13)