Lulu always thought that Malaysia practices a separation of power between state and legistlative.
Lulu's quite sure there were these diagrams in her Pengajian Am book. There were separate boxes for the the executive, legislature and judiciary.
Executive power is vested in the cabinet led by the prime minister.
Legislative authority is the power to make laws and also the power to raise taxes and authorize expenditure. These are your MPs and State Assemblymen.
The judiciary are the courts and her judges.
and the next bit, which i got from [of all places!] the Malaysia tourism website states,
In order to execute its judiciary functions without being partial in any way, the Judiciary is independent of the Legislative Authority and Executive Authority. The Federal Constitution of Malaysia is also providing safeguards to ensure that judges can carry out their duties as judiciary without any influence from the desires and wishes of either the Legislative or Executive Authority.
if that is what this tourism site is telling our foreign visitors, then it must be true.
and that Lulu is remembering it correctly, not that she's been watching too many foreign movies with all these anasir buruk which propogate human rights.
so, why is it that Lulu is reading this in Malaysiakini?