A number of bills which would serve as pillars of reformation of the
bureaucracy must be passed over the period of the next 12 months before
election. The bill consisted of among others: bill on state civilian apparatus
[Asn], bill on government administration [Adpem] and bill on government
internal control system [SPIP]. The bill was supposed to be free from political
interference toward presidential election of 2014. “The political climate is
getting hot lately. Whoever is elected as president he should given assurance
that corruption eradication and reformation of the bureaucracy would be
prioritized” Erry Riyana, head of the independent team of bureaucracy
reformation disclosed to disclosed to business news [23/4].
As soon as the Bills were passed into law, whoever was elected as
president would not easily adopt off-track policy. The case was not as simple
as Government Regulation [PP] or presidential regulation [perpres] where the
president could easily make changes. The future president was expected to be a
reformist figure, so reformation of the bureaucracy would be a priority.
“Reformation of the bureaucracy must be constantly carried out, but the fruits
could not be benefited in a short time”
Implementation a reformation of the bureaucracy in some ministries was
still nothing but paperwork. “The implementation is still beyond people’s
expectation and it’s very disheartening”
The objective of the reformation itself was mainly to establish a clean
bureaucracy which served. However to change the mindset a culture of civil
servant was not easy. Therefore Erry he urged all executives at the ministries
to be more daring and stringent to make breakthroughs within the existing corridors
toward achieving reformation of the bureaucracy.
In public services for example, there must be a clear standard operating
procedure whice was consistently implemented. Discipline among civil servants
[PNS] must be enforced without any psychological barriers. This must be put in
effect starting from recruitment of CPNS, promotion, until person. “Apply
punish and reward consistently.”
About some cases of civil servant at the tax dept who were could red
handed recently, Erry responded just lightly. “They are fraudulent people,
there are always such people in any institution.” It did not mean they could be
ignored they should be sanctioned according to the rules, so the disease would
not infect other personnel. By hard sanction a deterrent effect would be made
to other employees, so they need not to commit the same mistake.
The recommendation made by the deputy minister of PANREB Eko Prasojo
about the principle of chain effect in accountability must be supported. A
leader must be accountable for the mistakes done by his subordinates; other
personnel of the same unit must share the sanction.
Civilians must refer to the culture among military circles. “The
subordinate commits mistake, the leader must be responsible”
Although there were cases of felonious employees like Gayus Tambunan, so
far only the ministry of finance had exercised reformation of the bureaucracy
the integrated and specified way. The ministry of finance had changed standard
of operation procedures [SOP]. Services had shown significant improvement,
discipline and working ethos of employees turned better, and targets were met
at the ministry.
Other problem of reformation was the so many regulations in effect which
were not synchronous with one another. So many law, PP and perpress which were
not synchronous and even contradicted. The same was with permen, kepmen, perda
etc. all must be harmonized so the underlying regulations could be made clear.
“The vice President as Chairman of the Reformation Committee must see this. A
structural and earnest reformation must be exercised within the circles of law
enforces, prosecutors and police force, so law enforcement could run smoothly
and properly.” (SS)
Business News - April 26,2013
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