Jakarta, – The Step of President Joko Widodo or familiarly called Jokowi soliciting advice from Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and Indonesian Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) related to the formation of cabinet composition is appropriate considered. But it should not stop there.
It is better if it will be accompanied with efforts of Jokowi to clamp down on the use of budget in ministry.
“It was a positive practice to ask for input from KPK and PPATK in the selection,” said the National Secretariat of the Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency (Fitra) Maulana, in his office at Mampang, South Jakarta, on Sunday (October 26th, 2014).
With involving PPATK and KPK in the early formation of cabinet would ineffective or partial impact if it’s done in the early days only. The control over the use of performance budget should be made more stringent to avoid budget deviations.
“Because, in the future, this minister will be presented with a big enough budget. Well when those big budget is not regulated and the mechanisms of accountability and transparency is low, the potential for corruption would have been great,” said Maulana.
Therefor, Maulana added, FITRA asked President Jokowi to transmit the transparency, including the use of funds to his ministers later.
“Instruct the transparency of the budget and ask the public to control and supervise the implementation,” he said. [noe]
Source: Merdeka.com