Ever Successful In 2020, MenPAN Tjahjo Promises To Discuss Institutional Downsizing To The DPR

PAN-RB Minister Tjahjo Kumolo (Photo: DOK ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (Kementerian PAN-RB) has discussed simplifying the bureaucracy in the form of disbanding agencies and institutions under the Act.

This is to create a streamlined bureaucracy and fast in making decisions.

The Minister of PAN-RB Tjahjo Kumolo said, this step reflected in 2020 where the dissolution of agencies and institutions had gone well.

"After the KemenPAN RB dissolved the bodies and institutions under a Presidential Decree (Keppres), now is the time to switch to bodies and institutions under the law," said Tjahjo, Friday, June 11.

Tjahjo said that in line with President Jokowi's orders, the KemenPAN RB is currently evaluating the agencies and institutions under the law because there is one ministry that turns out to have three bodies. Thus, there is overlapping of functions and financing becomes wasteful.

Later, he said, civil servants who worked in the disbanded agencies and institutions would be transferred to the parent agency.

"President Jokowi wants a streamlined and non-overlapping bureaucracy to make decisions quickly," he stressed.

Therefore, he continued, the ministry will make an inventory of several agencies and institutions regulated under the law for evaluation.

"This evaluation is different from institutions under the Presidential Decree or Presidential Decree," he explained.

The difference, he continued, was the necessity to discuss with the DPR RI because it was related to revisions to the law. Therefore, in the next meeting, MenPAN will certainly discuss this downsizing in parliament.

"If the DPR agrees with the government to discuss it, of course we will discuss it properly," said Tjahjo.

Previously, in a joint working meeting with the DPT RI, Tuesday, June 8, Minister Tjahjo said that President Joko Widodo would again dissolve a number of state institutions to streamline the bureaucracy.

This time, he said, the government would dissolve an institution that was formed by law, so it had to be approved by the DPR RI.

"Hopefully, by the middle of the year until the end of the year, we will submit to the DPR proposals for agencies, institutions, which may be abolished," said Tjahjo during a Working Meeting at the DPR Building, Tuesday, June 8.

However, Tjahjo denied that he would dissolve three state institutions, namely the Press Council, the Information Commission, and the Broadcasting Commission.

"Never mention the institution. Moreover, the press council is an important institution and must exist," he said after the news circulated.