Opportunities for corruption across Flood Disaster Management (FDM)

• Main Authors: Ismail, Z. (Author), Latip, E. (Author), Nordin, R.M (Author), Salleh S.A (Author), Yusuwan N.M (Author), Zawawi, E.M.A (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2018
• Subjects: Crime; Disaster management; Disaster prevention; Disasters; Flood disaster management; Floods; Frequency division multiplexing; Government authorities; Loss of life; Major disasters; Private agencies; Quantitative research; Recovery phase
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 Flood is one of the major disasters in the world. Despite flood resulted in loss of life and damaged properties, it naturally imparts people to assist the victims that affected by the disaster. Malaysia has experienced many serious flooding events and proper flood disaster management need to be developed and adopted occasionally. Flood Disaster Management (FDM) seemed to be not working effectively especially during the Kelantan prodigious flood in December 2014. There were negative perceptions among victims and Malaysian citizens regarding the disaster management and government authorities in relation to corrupt practices. The FDM can be divided into four phases (i.e., prevention, preparedness, response and recovery) which undoubtedly corruption is perceived to exists in every phase. The aim of this study is to identify opportunities of corruption across FDM phases. The study presents a case study of Kelantan using the quantitative research approach which utilises questionnaire with government and private agencies. Further to that, this paper proved that opportunities for corruption may occur at every phase, undoubtedly response and recovery phase especially activities involving fund and donation are riskier. The findings are hoped to assist in developing an improved FDM in term of increased transparency. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.