The Open Government Indonesia project (OGI) employs certain government agencies like the President’s Delivery Unit of Development Monitoring and Oversight (UKP4) to promote transparency and innovation from both the government and citizen sides, according to Tech in Asia. The government is working on setting up websites through which multiple institutions will be able to pool information, and publish certain reports to encourage citizen involvement in government action. The websites have varied purposes, ranging from enabling citizen reporting on improvement needs to hosting details on government programs and budgets.
Lapor is a website that will be a portal for citizen reports on government activities. Satu Layanan will be an answers-and-questions type site where users can input queries for the government such as administrative processes. Satu Peta will be a map and navigation-based page, and Open Data Portal will list statistics on the country’s population.
Tech in Asia quotes OGI representative Agus Rachmanto on the legislative requirements of the Indonesian government as they are protected under a 2008 regulation on transparency:
Actually, according to the regulations, Indonesian government has the obligation to share any public data to citizens, no questions asked…At least the government has the obligation to respond whether particular information can be made public or not when enquired by people.
These projects come at a time that is crucial for Indonesia’s internet market as the country’s web-based companies have encountered obstacles in trying to stabilize and become successful. The government’s red tape prevents small businesses from getting off the ground; poor transportation has prevented e-commerce from really taking off; there is not a lot of tech-based encouragement in Indonesian school systems. Projects such as Intel’s work with e-commerce company Berniaga.com have burgeoned to encourage digital literacy in the country. And with the government’s reinforcing of transparency laws, and its active participation in the internet use of its citizens, perhaps Indonesia’s web landscape will look different in the coming years.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Juliana Kenny
Quelle/Source: Blouin News, 11.08.2014
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