Indonesian Government Released 47 Action Plans for 2014-2015

Indonesia has released its new 2014-2015 open government action plans. Since Indonesia had already undertaken a second round of action plans in 2013, this 2014-2015 action plans is the third wave of our action plans since OGP’s launching in 2011. Under its 3rd Action PlanAction plans are at the core of a government’s participation in OGP. They are the product of a co-creation process in which government and civil society jointly develop commitments to open governmen..., Indonesia is undertaking even a more ambitious yet strategically pragmatic set of open government reforms. The governance reform efforts will continue to answer the three Open Government PartnershipThe Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a multi-stakeholder initiative focused on improving government transparency, ensuring opportunities for citizen participation in public matters, and strengthen... More (OGP) grand challenges: improving public services; increasing public integrity; and more effectively managing public resources. 

The design of the action plans were engineered to ensure the latter aligns with Indonesia’s OGP Lead Chairmanship theme of ‘Promoting Public Participation’ that has translated into many action plans that enable civic participation. Additionally, it also places great importance to leverage OGP movement to sub-nationalRecognizing that much of what impacts people’s daily lives occurs at the local level, many OGP countries are working to open up lower levels of government by creating commitments focused on subnatio... provinces and city level, where the heaviest concentrations of citizens are located and the real development is happening

Throughout its development, the 3rd Action Plan has introduced several breakthroughs to increase the awareness of public participationGiving citizens opportunities to provide input into government decision-making leads to more effective governance, improved public service delivery, and more equitable outcomes. Technical specificatio.... First, the government held “SOLUSIMU” (“Your Solution” in English) contest where people across the nation could propose any solution to improve governance system. Second, the government incorporated inputs from the CSOs that had initiated a national forum to formulate CSOs recommendation for the Action Plan. Last, the government involved youthRecognizing that investing in youth means investing in a better future, OGP participating governments are creating meaningful opportunities for youth to participate in government processes. Technical ... More as a new stakeholder group to participate in each action plan development meeting.

As a result, a total of 47 action plans were agreed and are classified into four groups of commitments, i.e., strengthen open governance infrastructure to support better public services, improve quality of openness in basic public services, accelerate open and good governance practices in corruption-prone areas, and improve quality of openness in common public interest areas.

The action plan generally aims to increase transparency and accountability on every ministry in vital sectors. Some of the vital sectors that being addressed are economy, health, education, social, and law. A copy of the new action plan can be downloaded from here.