3 October 2013
The Indonesia Forum for Budget Transparency (FITRA) said local governments are still not transparent in publishing budget information and seem to be selective in publishing the information.
FITRA Advocacy coordinator Maulana said according FITRA’s research on 193 government websites in nine provinces in September 2013, budget is considered taboo and only a few people know about it.
“Budget is public information that must be announced regularly,” said Maulana.
Maulana stressed the government is obligated to publish budget information as stipulated in the the Home Affairs Ministry Regulation year 2012 about increasing regional budget transparency. It is stated that regional governments must provide one special channel for budget transparency where they have to publish 12 budget documents.
The 12 documents are RKA SKPD, RKA PPKD summary, regional budget regulation draft, revised regional budget regulation draft, regional budget regulation, revised regional budget, DPA SKPD summary, DPA PPKD summary, report of budget realization of all SKPD, report of PPKD budget realization, LKPD (audit) and BPK’s opinion on LKPD.
Besides those documents, the government must also publish information on goods and services procurement, office address and organizational structure and public information services.
“Regional governments still lack of budget information,” said Maulana.
Many regional governments are still reluctant in publishing their budget. Regional governments that publish budget information are still under 25 percent.
They also don’t publish budget information regularly and only publish it whenever they want. “There could be financial loss due to lack of public oversight,” he said.
Source: kompas.com
http://id.kebebasaninformasi.org/2013/10/03/fitra-pemda-masih-pilih-pilih-buka-informasi-anggaran/