Menpan RB Calls PDN-UMK Spending Low So The Bureaucratic Reform Index Of The Ministry Or Local Government Will Be Lowered

JAKARTA - Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform (Menpan RB) Abdullah Azwar Anas assessed that if the spending of domestic products, micro, and small enterprises (PDN-UMK) of ministries or institutions or local governments does not meet the target, it is certain that the value of the bureaucratic reform index will decrease.

"So in the past, spending on domestic products (PDN) and micro and small (UMK) businesses only became subcomponents, now this year it is one of the main themes, in addition to poverty, increasing investment, digitization, and controlling investment. Just like poverty, for example, if the decline is minimal, yes, the bureaucratic reform index will not have a significant improvement. Likewise, if the PDN and UMK expenditures are low, we will reduce the value of bureaucratic reform. Because now bureaucratic reform is focused on impact, not reporting administration," said Anas in his official statement, Wednesday, June 14, confiscated by Antara.

Thus, Menpan RB admitted that he would continue to strengthen the PDN-UMK shopping indicators and cooperatives through e-Catalog in assessing the bureaucratic reform index. Not only that, Anas revealed that the PDN-UMK-Coperation expenditure as of 2023 had become a theme in the implementation of the thematic bureaucratic reform initiated by the Ministry of PAN RB according to the direction of President Joko Widodo. He stated that his party reminded this after receiving information that the realization of PDN and UMK-Operative spending in ministries/agencies (K/L)/Pemda through e-Catalog did not match expectations.

"Earlier at the meeting, it was discussed that the PDN and UMK-Operative expenditures in e-Catalog were still a bit far from the target, based on data from the Government Goods/Services Procurement Policy Institute (LKPP)," he said.

In the past, the PDN and UMK-Operation expenditure indicators only had a weight of 2 percent of the total Bureaucratic Reform index. Currently, PDN and UMK-Operative spending will be added value or a significant "top up" in the bureaucratic reform index for K/L/Pemda.

"We will evaluate the 82nd K/L, all provinces and regencies/cities," explained Anas. President Joko Widodo, Anas continued, has ordered to make PDN-UMK-Operative spending an indicator of evaluation of bureaucratic reform in all ministries, institutions, and local governments.

This, he said, is so that the APBN and APBD can be dedicated to local products and UMK-Operative products whose end is the strengthening of the UMK and domestic industries to create jobs.

"So we use the bureaucratic reform index as a tool to drive the local and national economy," he said. On the direction of the President, the Ministry of PAN RB has changed the bureaucratic reform assessment scheme by no longer focusing upstream or internal bureaucratic governance.

However, he continued, he was more focused on solving downstream problems in the people such as poverty, inflation, and strengthening MSMEs and domestic industries through local product spending through the APBN and APBD. "If in the past government agencies had to fill in 259 component questions and upload thousands of documents in assessing bureaucratic reform that tended to be administrative, now focus on 26 indicators of the impact of results such as poverty, inflation rate, large APBN/APBD spending for domestic products, increasing investment, and so on," concluded Anas.