Ombudsman Finds 4 Potential Maladministration Of 3T Regional Internet Access

The SAR team found four bodies of KM Cahaya Arafa/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - Ombudsman member Jemsly Hutabarat said there were four potential maladministration related to the program services for providing internet access in 3T (frontier, outermost, and underdeveloped) areas by the Telecommunications and Information Accessibility Agency (Bakti) of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. maladministration occurs," said Jemsly at the Submission of the Report on the Results of the Study and Public Discussion in Jakarta, Wednesday 20 July. Furthermore, according to him, there are procedural irregularities, one of which is that there are still findings regarding the submission scheme outside the Integrated Asset Monitoring application (Definitely). "There are still manual submissions," said Jemsly. SOP) for the form of a letter in support from government officials related to the complete registration of organizations proposing internet access.

The next concern, continued Jemsly, is the lack of competence related to the internet network speed which is still low. Culture, and the Ministry of Health," he said. Field observations, he said, carried out direct monitoring in the 3T areas in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Maluku, and North Sumatra, only the Nias area. He said there were 24 monitoring points focused on eight education services, seven health services, and nine public service institutions.