Concept Of Downsizing Bureaucrats To Boost Investment

Menpan RB Tjahjo Kumolo (Instagram / @ kemenpanrb)

JAKARTA - Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (Menpan RB) Tjahjo Kumolo has signed Circular (SE) Number 393 of 2019 concerning strategic and concrete steps to simplify the bureaucracy.

This letter discusses nine strategic and concrete steps in simplifying the bureaucracy that the Ministry of Tourism will carry out. Starting with identifying echelon III, IV, and V that can be simplified and mapping the positions in work units affected by the transition.

Tjahjo admitted that he was grateful because Commission II supported the priority scale and vision and mission of the president and vice president for 2019-2024 related to bureaucratic reform. He explained that this bureaucratic reform should not be interpreted as pruning.

"Echelonization downsizing is not pruning. But downsizing, which was carried out carefully, carefully and carefully, which was initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture RB, invited all ministries general secretaries and institutional secretaries to solve the problems of each institution and ministry," said Tjahjo after a meeting with Commission II, in DPR Building, Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Monday, November 18.

According to Tjahjo, during the meeting his party also received advice from Commission II so that several positions at the regional government level, such as the head of the sub-district office, the sub-district, whose function is to serve, are not downsized.

"Because the aim of the downsizing that is directed by the President is to be able to improve public services quickly. Second, it can give permission to investors, both central, regional and foreign. So that economic growth and development growth," he explained.

Tjahjo added, this downsizing was meaningless in terms of numbers. Because, said Tjahjo, the goal is to accelerate services. This reduction also occurs not only at echelon III and IV levels but also at level I.

"With downsizing, don't think it continues to be depreciated. It's different. There is echelon I that has decreased, echelon I has been added. For what reason? The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs plus the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs plus investment. It is impossible to reduce it, add to the investment portion," he said. .

Suggestion from the Ministry of BUMN

Tjahjo revealed that the idea of streamlining the bureaucracy also targeted echelons from level I to IV emerged from the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN).

"The BUMN Ministry has the idea to streamline it. So the downsizing is to accelerate services," he said.

The aim of the downsizing is for the convenience of licensing investors. As well as cutting down the complicated bureaucracy.

"Not only BUMN (the proposed downsizing), we will coordinate all our institutions. The objective of the Minister of Agriculture for the RB is to accelerate the process of the objective of this advanced Indonesian cabinet," he explained.

Realizing the possibility of turmoil in the regions related to downsizing the bureaucracy, said Tjahjo, his party had anticipated the possibility of this happening.

"Pak Deputy Irwan has sent letters to ministries, agencies and regions to see the potential and problems in what areas. Which ones are yes and which are not," he said.

"Each ministry has a different institution, if all regions have a sub-district head, village head, village head, and office head. This is carefully flexible but progressive in order to organize a bureaucracy that is said to be world-class in the future," he explained.