PUTRAJAYA, Nov 17 — Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali wants the government to enact a special law — the Economic Saboteurs Act to fight widespread corruption and white collar crimes in the country.

The firebrand political activist and community leader said that he would make the call and include the point as part of his policy speech in Perkasa's 7th annual general meeting (AGM) this Saturday.

"In our AGM, I want to highlight one point in the motion. I am going to stress this in my policy speech. I want to make a suggestion in my policy speech to the government to consider enacting the Economic Saboteurs Act. This Economic Saboteurs Act is similar in terms of its mechanism with ISA.

"Because this corruption and abuse of power has become endemic in Malaysia and it involves many parties. From the issue of Mara's land sale in Melbourne, the issue of corruption involving a local council officer, and then the latest in Sabah involving RM100 million and two days ago, the nabbing of a 'Datuk' from a government-linked company, whose assets of RM39 million was seized.”

Ibrahim said that government's failure to address the problem would see a possible uprising from citizens, which would in turn, harm national security.

"The people will get angry and if there is a delay in taking action, the people will revolt. This would also harm national security," he said, adding that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the police must nab those who are involved in corruption involving RM1 million and above.

"So I want to suggest that MACC and the police in -charge of cases involving abuse of power and corruption can detain any suspects for at least 30 or to 60 days. If it was ISA last time, it was 60 days, but now we feel 30 days would do. Without court order. Within the 30 days, the authorities can investigate," he added.

In 2011, the Putrajaya fulfilled the pledge to implement various reforms in the national legislation, which included the repeal of three Emergency Proclamations which led to the abolition of the Emergency Ordinance, the Internal Security Act (ISA) 1971, Banishment Act 1959 and the Restricted Residence Act 1933 as well as amending the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984, repealing Section 27 of the Police Act.

Subsequently, the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) was gazetted in June 2012 aimed at maintaining public order and security after the abolition of the ISA which, among others, involved the detention of individuals without trial under the old act.

Also introduced was the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 aimed to ensure the freedom of speech according to proper channels besides ensuring that public peace was not affected to protect the rights and freedom of others.