Minister Of Home Affairs: Digital MPP Can Reduce Potential Corruption

Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian while accompanying Vice President Ma'ruf Amin at the "Soft Launching MPP Digital Nasional"/ANTARA/HO-Puspen Ministry of Home Affairs

JAKARTA - Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Muhammad Tito Karnavian said digital public service malls (MPP) can reduce the potential for criminal acts of corruption in addition to making it easier for people to get public services.

According to Tito, the potential for corruption can be suppressed. This is because the digital MPP will reduce face-to-face meetings between people who want to access public services and related officers so that the practice of illegal levies which are part of criminal acts of corruption will also be reduced.

"With digitalization, this face-to-face meeting will greatly decrease, and that's why I think we are making a system to suppress corruption," said the Minister of Home Affairs while accompanying the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia Ma'ruf Amin at the Soft Launching of the National Digital MPP at the Vice Presidential Palace (Wapres), Jakarta, reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, June 20.

Tito emphasized that the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) supports the existence of a digital MPP. This support is related to the provision of population data and civil registration (dukcapil).

According to Tito, the population identification number (NIK) is the main database for services at the digital MPP.

"A total of 99.7 percent of Indonesia's population has been registered in the dkcapil data," he said.

In addition, Tito also conveyed that other support provided by the Ministry of Home Affairs was to encourage digital MPPs to be utilized by many local governments.

On the same occasion, when submitting the report, the Minister for Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (MenpanRB) Abdullah Azwar Anas explained various facilities obtained by the public from the digital MPP. First, with the existence of a digital MPP, the public can access public services anytime and anywhere.

Second, the digital MPP also allows people to have enough accounts and once fill in data when they want to access various public services in government applications.

"Previously, people filled in data repeatedly, after which the public had inputted data. Previously, the public had to create many accounts in various government applications or e-services. Now, on the advice of Vice President Ma'ruf Amin, the public only needed one account to access various e-services," he said.