by Parliamentary Center | Jun 24, 2017 | News, Clippings, National
12 February 2014
Transparency has become a public demand. The issuance of Law No. 14/2008 about Public Information Openness (UU KIP) has made public bodies incapable of covering up information that people need. The following is an account of information dispute between the Samarinda Environmental Agency (BLH) and the East Kalimantan Mining Advocacy (Jatam).
On 21 March 2013, BLH submitted 63 environmental impact analysis (amdal) documents on all coal mining activities in Samarinda to Jatam. Jatam representative Johansyah Ismail said it was a consequence after six months of dispute at the East Kalimantan Information Commission (KI). BLH was forced through aanmaning or admonition to submit the documents before forced submission by the Samarinda State Court because BLH had violated KI’s legally binding ruling.
Every resident living near coal mining locations is vulnerable to direct and indirect effects from mining operation. Based on the record, many people were affected by mining activities, such as air pollution and loss of water resources.
Coal mining operations also damage roads and are not immune to coal mining accidents. Therefore, public access to information on amdal and mining operation is important for the people.
UU KIP guarantees freedom to information for all people and groups. Public bodies that do not comply with UU KIP will be subjected to prison sentences. Jatam sued BLH to the court six months ago where there was still constitutional guarantee. However, BLH refused to provide data on coal mining activities due to excuses, such as legality of institution and state document confidentiality.
Souce: KaltimPost
by Parliamentary Center | Jun 24, 2017 | News, Clippings, National
12 February 2014
The Centre for Research and Information (Pattiro) said that the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) had not consistently implemented information openness.
“BPK does not give public access to the first and second Hambalang audit report. BPK exempts that information,” said Pattiro executive director Sad Dian Utomo.
According to Sad Dian, the information was given to Commission IX of the DPR in August 2013 so the information is clearly not exempted.
“Based on Article 7 clause (5) of Law No. 15/2006 about Supreme Audit Agency, audit report that has been submitted to DPR, DPD and DPRD is open for public. We are worried that if the reports are not open for the public, there will be political bargaining that can harm the people,” he said.
Sad Dian also questioned BPK’s decision to give the report to the parliament as BPK should’ve only given the report to law enforcement agencies and DPR is not a law enforcement agency and does not have the authority to obtain information containing investigation results and fraud forensic.
He said BPK’s attorney argued that they submitted the audit report to DPR because they needed it for audit. The request from the parliament for the report is also the first time from external party.
“Does the DPR even have rights to ask for audit report? Do they have the authority for that? Because they are not a law enforcement agency that can receive exempted information from BPK, DPR and BPK can be subjected to article 54 clause (1) of Law No. 14/2008 about public information openness,” said Sad Dian.
The aforementioned article 54 states that any party that has no right to receive and/or provide exempted information is subjected to two years of imprisonment and fine of Rp10,000,00.
Source: BeritaSatu
by Parliamentary Center | Jun 24, 2017 | News, Clippings, National
23 February 2014
The Jakarta Legislative Council (DPRD) has been urged to publish their attendance report so that 7,021,514 voters in Jakarta will be able to know their work, according to Jakarta Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI) public policy head CecepHandoko.
Cecep said PBHI had sent a letter to DPRD asking for the attendance report as it could become indication of performance of 94 DPRD members who mostly will re-run for legislative elections in 2014.
“DPRD must be more transparent in showing their poor performance, ranging from slow decision on regional budget and unachieved target of passing regional laws in 2013,” said Cecep.
In the letter to DPRD chairman FerrialSofyan, PBHI requested for immediate announcement of attendance report as it will serve as parameter and information for voters in the next elections so that voters can be more objective in voting the next DPRD members for a better Jakarta.
Source: detik.com
by Parliamentary Center | Nov 23, 2016 | News, Clippings, National, Government
Berangus Pungli dengan Penguatan Sistem IT dan Partisipasi Publik melalui Keterbukaan Informasi
JAKARTA Setelah mencanangkan pemberantasan pungutan liar (pungli), Presiden Joko Widodo mengingatkan agar aksi tersebut tak berhenti hanya sebagai sebuah gerakan simbolik atau seremonial semata, namun harus betul-betul fokus dan konkret di lapangan.
Di mata Presiden, langkah reformasi hukum yang dicanangkan dengan gebrakan aksi pemberantasan pungli melalui tim Sapu Bersih Pungutan Liar (Saber Pungli), hasilnya bisa dilihat dengan makin banyaknya pembenahan, terutama di tempat pelayanan publik.
“Saya mendapatkan informasi bahwa pengaduan masyarakat sudah sangat banyak. Hasilnya juga mulai terlihat dengan ditangkapnya beberapa aparat, birokrasi, kemudian juga BUMN yang masih berani melakukan pungli. Dan ini akan terus kita gencarkan lagi,” tegasnya.
Menurut presiden, langkah pemerintah tidak hanya akan berhenti pada pemberantasan pungli saja, tapi jangkauan pemberantasan korupsi harus dimulai dari hulu sampai hilir, dari pencegahan sampai dengan penindakan hukum yang tegas.
Presiden juga meminta agar langkah-langkah deregulasi perbaikan mekanisme, penyederhanaan prosedur birokrasi, termasuk penyederhanaan izin SPD (Surat Perjalanan Dinas) diperbaiki, terutama dengan mengoptimalkan pemanfaatan teknologi informasi.
“Tapi pembangunan sistem yang berbasis IT juga bukan satu-satunya jawaban, harus diimbangi dengan bekerjanya pengawasan yang efektif, baik yang dilakukan oleh pengawas internal masing-masing kementerian dan lembaga, maupun dengan cara mengundang partisipasi publik melalui keterbukaan informasi,” tandasnya.
by muhammad mukhlisin | Nov 20, 2014 | Clippings, National, Sport
Jakarta, Kebebasaninformasi.org – Ministry of Youth and Sports (Kemenpora) appealed to the Indonesian Football Federation (PSSI) to be transparent. Ministry of Youth and Sports rated, according to the Freedom of Information Law, PSSI must be willing to open up its financial reports to the public.
“In accordance with Law No. 14 of 2008 on openness, the public body is any agencies or association that receives budget from state funds or the district budget partially or entirely,” said Staff Bureau of Public Relations, Law, and Employment of Ministry of Youth and Sports, Joseph Supaman, S.H., LLM., as reported by merdeka.com.
“If PSSI received a budget allocation through the budget for development of football achievement, this could be qualified as a public body that should be responsible to the transparency and accountability of funds that have been received,” he continued.
According to Joseph, in 2014, Ministry of Youth and Sports has also allocated funds for the PSSI. The amount of budget is US$ 125 million. However, Joseph added, PSSI has not applied for funding to them.
Similar demands that PSSI should be transparent related to their financial also expressed by a group of supporters who are members of the Forum Diskusi Supporter Indonesia (FDSI). Through the Central Information Commission, they sued PSSI related to presentation of this following public documents, contract documents between PSSI with TV station, the details of the reception and use of broadcasting rights of Senior National Team and U-19 during 2012-2014, the fund management rights and sponsorships, including how many tickets have been printed by PSSI throughout the AFF Cup U-19, Asian Cup qualifying U-19 in 2013 and the U-19 archipelago tour in 2014, then also details the distribution of the whole category of tickets that have been printed.
In addition, they also demand transparency of the sponsorship revenue and apparel of Senior National Team, U-23 and ticket policy changes during the AFF Cup match. No less exceptional, the financial reports and financial audit results for the period 2005-2013, then also the details of congress financial reports from the period 2005-2014 is requested to be opened to the public. (merdeka.com)
by Parliamentary Center | Oct 30, 2014 | Clippings, National
Jakarta, – The Step of President Joko Widodo or familiarly called Jokowisoliciting advice from Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and Indonesian Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) related to the formation of cabinet composition is appropriateconsidered. 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
