by muhammad mukhlisin | Nov 25, 2014 | District
Bangka Belitung, Kebebasaninformasi.org – Air Force Information Service Department (Dispenau) held socialization related to the Law No. 14 of 2008 on Freedom of Information Law (KIP) in Hanandjoeddin Airfield, Bangka Belitung Islands, on Monday (November 17th, 2014). The socialization has implemented by Team Safari of Direct Information (Pensung) Dispenau led by Lt. Col. Sus Ernest DJ Fambrene along with Lt. Col. Sus Sonaji Wibowo and Sergeant Hendra.
Lt. Col. Ernest DJ Fambrene Sus, the Chairman of Direct Information (Pensung) Team of Headquarters Air Force stated, the purpose of the direct lighting is to convey information that is current in order to improve the performance of members in the unit ranks of the Air Force and their extended family. Lt. Col. Sus Sonaji Wibowo added that he deliberately brought the material of socialization of Law No. 14 of 2008 on Freedom of Information and Social Media so that all the Air Force Soldiers share a common vision and perception as well as add insight and knowledge about openness and use of social media in the military unit, especially the Air Force.
Lieutenant Colonel Pnb Setiawan said in his speech, now the Air Force Information Service Department is having big influence on the image of the Air Force to face the public, both in peacetime and conflict. Moreover, now the era of globalization and information technology becomes the holder of an important role in the transformation of issues, opinions or news information.
Therefore, Lt. Col. Pnb Setiawan invited all members of H.AS Hanandjoeddin airfield in order to listen to the message that convey and can take knowledge from the team of Air Force Information Service Department Presentation.
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 muhammad mukhlisin | Nov 18, 2014 | National
A number of Members of Central and Districts Information Commission considers that Article 29 of the Freedom of Information Law were contradictory with the independence of the Information Commission. Therefore, they perform a judicial review on the law to the Constitutional Court (MK). Monday (November 11th, 2014), The Court held the first hearing with preliminary examination agenda. In the trial, the Court gave some advice.
Assembly that led by Ahmad Fadlil Sumadi is still assessing the arguments in the application document and has not been focus and narrowed to constitutional loss.
“It is distracted. You will face the legislator, even the experts. It’s not about winning or losing, but how do you ensure that this application is the real issue of constitutionality,” said Ahmad Fadlil Sumadi during the trial.
Judge Aswanto also requested that the petition should be elaborated with fact description that occurred until the conclusion of the applicant suffered actual constitutional loss. “Well, this needs to be elaborated in such a way, including being able to be elaborated by the fact that occurs when handling 772 disputes. Is there a constitutional loss specifically when handling 772 disputes? The handling of 772 disputes did not perform in a short time, but it’s been so long,” Aswanto suggest. (The full hearing can be seen in this link)
Not Independent
On the same occasion the applicant’s attorney, Veri assess that Information Commission as a semi-judicial institution which decides disputes between public institutions with the applicant should be self-reliant and independent institution as referred by Article 23 Freedom of Information Law. Within the meaning, in carrying out duties, the Commission should have released from of interest (government) and the litigants.
In accordance with Article 23 Freedom of Information Law states the Information Commission is an independent institution that serves running the law and the implementation rules establish a standard technical guidelines of public information service and resolve the public information disputes through mediation, and or non-litigation adjudication.
Unfortunately, secretarial arrangements involving the government as regulated in Article 29 Freedom of Information Law does not support the independence of implementation tasks of the Information Commission. This is contrary to the independence principle of Information Commission as quasi-judicial institution. “Although designed as an independent institution, there’s still setting that inconsistent. This inconsistency can be seen in Article 29 paragraph (2) and paragraph (4),” he said as quoted by hukumonline.com.
Therefore, the applicant asked for Article 29 paragraph (2), (3), (4), (5) of Freedom of Information Law has been opposed with the 1945 law and does not have binding legal force to the extent not be interpreted as follows: (2) Information Commission Secretariat conducted by the secretariat of the Central Information Commission; (3) the Secretariat of the Central Information Commission chaired by the Secretary General proposed by the Central Information Commission to the president; (4) Secretariat conducted by the Provincial Information Commission secretary proposed by the Provincial Information Commission to the Central Information Commission; and (5) Secretariat of the District/Sub-district Information Commission conducted by the secretary proposed by District/Sub-district Information Commission to the Provincial Information Commission.
by muhammad mukhlisin | Sep 3, 2014 | Clippings, National
Jakarta, kpu.go.id- Following the socialization of Information Commission Regulation (Perki) No. 1 of 2014 on Standards Service and Procedures of Election Information Dispute Resolution that performed last Thursday (August 28th), this afternoon, the General Election Commission (KPU) received a representation from Indonesian Parliamentary Center (IPC) to discuss the structure and operational standards that will be implemented by the Commission in providing electoral information services to the public.
Present on behalf of IPC, Toby Mendel (President Board of Director Centre For Law & Democracy Canada) said that openness should be done with integrated cooperation, not only by the Commission internally, but also with institutions and agencies that have an interest in the administration of elections in Indonesia.
Toby reminded the Commission to make normative operational standards, and establish the structure of Information and Documentation Management Officer (PPID). Because according to him, each bureau /section has different information functions.
“This is a wonderful opportunity for the Commission, because as far as I observe, the institutions in Indonesia have not been able to implement good information service,” he continued.
He added that if the Commission can make good regulations and procedure standards, the Commission will be used as a reference in the implementation of standard information services to the public. “I’m not saying this is easy, but if the Commission success to create structure and good operational standards, the Commission will be used as a reference by other public institutions,” he said.
The Commissioner of Election Commission, Ferry Kurnia Rizkiansyah who receives the IPC representative explained that in fact, the Commission already has an operational standards regarding public information service, but it has not been fully implemented, especially in the districts.
Furthermore, Ferry said that the Commission is currently repairing the rules that will be implemented. He said, before the implementation the Commission will perform a public test first.
“Before implemented, the Commission will perform consultation and testing to public to determine whether the regulation or standard operational procedures can work well or not,” he explained.
Regarding the electoral information which will be provided to the public, the Commission will continue coordination with the Information Commission to determine the classification of any information that available to the public.
Furthermore, the Commission will harmonize the regulations in each line with Districts and Sub-districts commission regarding information which needs to be conveyed to the public through the Commission website in each level.
“To facilitate the access of information, they do not have to come to the Commission office directly, the public just need to visit the Commission’s website to obtain the information that they wanted,” said Arief Budiman who participated in the discussion. (ris/PHOTO KPU/lecturer/Hupmas)
Source: kpu.go.id
by muhammad mukhlisin | Jan 27, 2014 | National
Indonesian Parliamentary Center (IPC), Friday 24th, 24/12, held a discussion about development of training module of Information Openness on Election. Director of IPC, Sulastio said this module will be the guides on implementing Information Openness training in Aceh, Makassar, Surabaya, and Jakarta, on upcoming February.
Sulastio described one of actual program which initiated by IPC is pushing information openness in accordance with mandate of Laws Number 14 of 2008 on Public Information Openness (UU KIP). According to him, the understanding of UU KIP is very important for quality of process and upcoming 2014 election results.
In the same time, Masykurudin Hafidz, researcher of Voters Education Network for Public (JPPR) said that public election organizer in districts were not open at all. The experience of JPPR volunteer shows that many of information applicant that only serviced via private line. Even not be served too.
Media-Link activists, Najib, states the module development and training implementation needs to involve the public election organizer, so that they can understand how UU KIP should be implemented. While, the researcher of ICEL, Dessy Eko Prayitno hopes this module and training can be useful to create the election that is good, honesty, and transparent. “The good election will bring the good leader to”, he said.
