Menpan RB Asks K/L Not To Budget Application Expenditures Without Permit

Menpan RB Abdullah Azwar Anas (ANTARA/HO-Ministry PAN-RB/am)

JAKARTA - Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform (Menpan RB) Abdullah Azwar Anas asked ministries and non-ministerial government institutions (K/L) not to just budget for application spending without the approval of his party.

"They, if not approved by the Kemenpan-RB, cannot be budgeted," said Anas in the Workshop Optimizing the Implementation and Achievement of the SP4N-LAPOR 2020-2024 Roadmap Target in Jakarta as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, July 11.

If K/L continues to budget for application spending, he continued, it will be examined by the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP).

Anas said President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) had instructed the Kemenpan RB to integrate more than 27,000 public service applications that already exist.

So far, he continued, every time there is a new innovation, it will certainly produce one application. In fact, officials who have just occupied a certain position have also been approached by vendors. This is what makes many digital service applications The Government is mushrooming in Indonesia.

"'Sir, this is the top.' Finally, every new official, there is a new vendor, there is a new application. We can no longer (app spending), we are controlling application spending," he said.

The Government's digital service integration plan received a positive response from former British prime minister (PM) Tony Blair while visiting the KemenpanRB Office in Jakarta, on March 6, 2023.

Tony Blair expressed his support and appreciation for the steps taken by the Government of Indonesia in implementing the Electronic-Based Government System (SPBE).

"He conveyed to Pak Tarigan, this is the right step to double the achievement by digitizing because digitalization makes reformhandling compare quickly," he said.

Not only that, Azwar Anas also had the opportunity to be invited to the UK and invited to visitEstonia, a country in Eastern Europe that divided the Soviet Union which has digital services The Government has reached 99 percent and only 1 percent of government services are not carried out digitally, namely divorce issues.

Estonian national portals do not feature K/L, but services that immediately meet the needs of the community. For example, if people need social assistance (bansos), the website will immediately serve it.

Anas said that such conditions are currently being intended by the Kemenpan RB. The presidential regulation for government technology technology is expected to be completed next week.

"It's under Peruri. With that, digitalization technology will definitely be clear," said Anas.