Jokowi's Plan To Create A National Regulatory Body

Minister of State Secretary Pratikno (Photo: Twitter @KemensetnegRI)

JAKARTA - The government will soon form a National Regulatory Body. This agency is a combination of work units that administer regulations in a number of ministries / agencies.

The aim of this agency is to create so that existing regulations do not overlap. Not only laws that will be administered by this agency, but also regulations under it, such as Ministerial Regulations and even Regional Regulations.

"So the point is for regulatory consistency as well as simplification," said State Secretary Minister Pratikno in a working meeting with Commission II at the DPR Building, Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday, November 13, 2019.

The plan to form this agency is a promise of Joko Widodo's campaign for the 2019 elections. Jokowi wants all regulations to be combined at the center of national legislation. The President wants to be able to directly control the existing regulations. So that one door and not overlapping, he said at that time.

After the meeting, Chairman of Commission II Ahmad Dolly Kurnia said that the plan to form this agency was a Jokowi campaign promise that had to be completed. From the information he has, the existing regulations in Indonesia do overlap.

"I think this is positive. Because during the working meeting at Commission II with the Minister of Home Affairs it was revealed because most of the members of Commission II were many former regional heads. They really feel that there is an overlap between one regulation and another, whether it is parallel, level or vertically," said Dolly.

He will follow up on this wish to be discussed in the DPR. However, Dolly wanted to know the position of this body first before going any further.

"Yes, we will discuss what position he is and where he is. Under the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, with the Ministry of Law and Human Rights. Under the president, coordination with other ministries will be discussed further," said a politician from the Golkar Party, whose party support Jokowi in the 2019 elections.

In the National National Coordination Meeting for the Central Government and Forkopimda 2019 at the Sentul International Convention Center (SICC), President Jokowi said that the many regulations made by the regional government made the central government inflexible. In addition, there are too many regulations in the regions, which disturbs the acceleration of development because they clash with other regulations.

“Our country is not a regulatory country. Everything is arranged even we get caught alone. Be careful, it's stopped already, "he said, who also asked local governments to stop making regulations.

President Jokowi during a speech at the National Government Coordination Meeting and Forkopimda 2019 at the Sentul International Convention Center (SICC), West Java, Wednesday, November 13, 2019. (Wardhany Tsa Tsia / VOI)

He said, in the United States under Donald Trump's era, if the ministry was going to make new regulations, it had to remove the two previous rules. Thus, existing regulations do not overlap and disturb the flexibility of government.

“Most of the regulations are a headache on their own. Flexibility is most important, speed. All countries go there. Who is faster, he will win, "he said.