17 June 2013
Filing of public information dispute against the Indonesian Consulate General in Hong Kong (KJRI Hong Kong) met another obstacle. The Hong Kong BMI II Team who pioneered the request for information to KJRI Hong Kong must wait their turn for their dispute to be processed as there is a vacuum in the Central information Commission (KIP)
It turns out there are many public information disputes. Data from the KIP shows that in 2013, there were 94 unsolved information disputes and even worse, in 2012, some cases were still unsolved. Data collected by the Freedom of Information Network Indonesia (FOINI) coalition also shows that from 2009 to 2012, out of 818 cases, only 64% of the cases were solved.
Team II leader MMuhammad Irsyadl Ibad said that the dispute letter had been sent to the KIP. However, the tenure of KIP commissioners that ended on 2 June halted the dispute process. According to Ibad, the KIP is now is vacuum which is why information disputes are piling up.
It is unclear when the vacuum period will end as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has not appointed new commissioners. Migrant worker activists hope that there will be new commissioners soon as deadline set to process public information dispute is only 100 working days.
Source: buruhmigran.or.id
http://en.kebebasaninformasi.org/2013/06/17/komisi-informasi-pusat-vakum-sengketa-kip-bmi-tersendat/