Asian Parliamentary Openness Index

Parliamentary openness is strongest on publishing information, but weakest on transforming openness into accountability. Legislatures across the nine countries assessed in the APOI performed strongly when it comes to openness on information (62.2%) but lags on citizen participation (50%) and public accountability (46.4%). Information is available but not usable 100% of legislatures assessed provide plenary video access, but only 27.5% of available information are machine-readable. Rules are in place but not enforced 92.9% of legislatures assessed have codes of conduct, but only 21.4% maintain public registers of interests. Citizens can participate but not meaningfully 78.6% of legislatures assessed provide information on attending plenary sittings, but only 28.6% offer mechanisms for the public to comment on draft bills.