KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 — Putrajaya is looking into implementing more measures to prevent future examination paper leaks, Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today.

Muhyiddin said that although many proposed recommendations made by the Independent Committee to Review Public Examinations in Malaysia have already been adopted, like the installation of closed-circuit television cameras, the government is reviewing the panel’s report to implement more suggestions.

“For example, the suggestion to create the exam papers electronically based in schools, this is fairly new,” he told a press conference at the launching of the Teachers Education Institution Malay campus.

“So we want to see if we can implement this,” he added.

According to local news portal The Malaysian Insider, the recommendations were submitted by the committee, following the leaks in four of the UPSR examinations last September which forced half a million Year Six students to resit the papers.

The committee had suggested, among other things,  that a bar code system be implemented at all exam centres and a central database of exam questions, namely an “item bank,” be set up, local daily the New Straits Times reported recently.

Some of the recommendations that have already been implemented include changing the standard operating procedures for the rooms in which exam papers are kept, as well as amendments to the way in which exam questions are selected and printed, Muhyiddin said.

According to local daily The Star, the two Malaysian Examinations Board officials, who were suspended over the leaks in last year's UPSR exams have been cleared.

Second Education Minister Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh said the investigation conducted by Independent Committee to Review Public Examinations in Malaysia found former board director Dr Na'imah Ishak and former deputy director of operations Dr Wan Ilias Wan Salleh not guilty.

Local daily The Sun also reported last November that some 526 security cameras were installed on rooms that housed the SPM examination papers, in line with the ministry's efforts to beef up security.