PUTRAJAYA, Aug 3 — Malaysia’s score in the Shariah Index that it launched two years ago has improved marginally this year, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced today.
The score for the 2017 Shariah Index was 76.06 per cent in several main policy areas, an improvement of 0.64 percentage points compared to the 2015 score of 75.42 per cent.
Malaysia was ranked as “very good” in the index, scoring above 80 per cent in several areas such as education and legislature.
Najib announced the index score during a gathering of Islamic scholars and NGOs here, during which he also announced a RM2 million fund from Putrajaya for the NGOs.
“This is an achievement that we had hoped for, to continue to drive this government to govern according to Maqasid Shariah,” Najib said.
The eight areas evaluated are education, economy, politics, health, legislature, infrastructure and environment, culture and social aspects.
