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Links to state portals mixed up
By SIM LEOI LEOI

PUTRAJAYA: The government’s website (www.gov.my) may be an award winner but visitors will get lost and confused in it because links to some state government portals are mixed up.

Some of the websites linked to the cyber gateway cannot even be found.

It features the wrong links to the portals of seven state governments – Perak, Perlis, Penang, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor and Terengganu.

Clicking on the button for Perak, surfers will instead be led to links relating to the Perlis government and its various state agencies. The Perlis button leads to Penang while the Penang button is linked to Perak. Sabah’s button leads to Selangor, Sarawak to Terengganu, Selangor to Sabah and Terengganu to Sarawak.

The link to Perak does not function, but it is possible to access the Perak website by typing the URL address www.perak.gov.my.

There is also a link to a “non-Malaysian state” on the website. However, there is no information posted on this “non-Malaysian state” or for the links for the Federal Territories of Putrajaya, Labuan and Kuala Lumpur.

Although most of the state government websites are updated, some of the links to their agencies lead to the messages that either these are “not found” or “error 404.”

For instance, the link on www.gov.my for the Perak Mentri Besar’s office indicates the “Perak Chief Minister’s Office” and has the message “website not found”. Similarly, the website indicates Chief Minister’s office for the Mentri Besar in Johor.

Some of the websites via the links show that these have not been updated for some time – information on the website for Perak’s administration and finance division has not been updated since Feb 23, 2006.

Most of the websites of the state agencies and governments are, however, up to date with their information.

The Federal Government’s website won the World Information Technology and Services Alliances) Global ICT Excellence Award (public sector category), presented at the recent 16th World Congress on Information Technology 2008 in Kuala Lumpur.

The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit has been promoting the website as the one portal for the public to access information on the Government, its agencies, forms and services as part of its “no wrong door” policy.

The website’s links to the Government are working and up to date.