Plain Ideas for Indonesia

A nice article to discuss the needs to improve government to be more innovative. This article argues to make government more innovative, we should give more flexibility to government. http://blogs.hbr.org/revitalizing-cities/2011/04/lessons-from-new-york-citys-in.html ---

A good article about how to assess collaboration activity as part of the performance management http://blogs.hbr.org/erickson/2011/04/assessing_performance_from_ind.html?referral=00563&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_alert-_-alert_date&utm_source=newsletter_daily_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert_date ---

For the last 3 days, I attended a training in government procurement systems. The topics mostly focused on the procedures. There are some changes with the past regulation. With the new regulation, now the procurement types are divided to: - Goods procurement; - Construction procurement; - Consultant procurement; and - Other services procurement. However, according to the regulation, if we want to procure services we should start procure it from our internal resources, i.e. procurement through our party (swakelola). The procurement priority now is not through third party (external supplier/provider). It means the procurement should optimize their internal resources before thinking to finding the resources from external party. If we can't find the resources from our internal party, then we should procure it through external party. Now there is no limitation value for services to be procured by our internal party. As long as we can manage it well, we can procure it with any v...

When there was a case in relation with Roy Suryo, a member of parliament and his claim as a multimedia expert, as usual the public blamed him. I don't know why mostly the people don't like him. It happened again when there's a tweep complained his habit in a scheduled flight managed by Lion Air. Suryo argued Lion Air had released a double ticket. It's a serious accusation. Lion Air's management made a clarification. They claimed Suryo had choosen the wrong flight schedule. However, what I'm thinking now why the waiting room's staffs gave permission to Suryo to sat in the wrong flight? Wasn't it a wrong procedure? Let's wait what will be happened next. Will both of them sue each other?

This week we heard the conflict in one of our political parties. One of its founders released a corruption allegation in relation with its chairman and general secretary. In the past, the political party was well-known about its concern in improving integrity and governance. It used Islamic ideologue as the foundation. However, lately there were disagreements with the future of the party's position. One side, some of the members wanted their party to be more open to the public, but on the other side some of them wanted to maintain status quo, as a close group, and still maintain Islamic ideologue as the foundation of the political party's movement. After debating their future position, one of the founders didn't satisfy with the final decisions. He argued the decisions had been manipulated by some of the political party's elites. After fighting his argumentations, finally he was fired by the political party's executive with some reasons. He tried to inform man...

This week we have some parcel bombing, starting from parcel bomb for a liberal religion scholar. The bombings have scared some people. The Anti-Terrorist Agency indicated that the bombers were from routine Islamic terrorists. However, not all the people agreed with them. Some of them argued it was from the Anti-Terrorist Agency (Detasemen 88) itself. Some opinions from the social medias argued the bomb itself came from intellegent agents to distract the people attention from the leaked diplomatic cables accusing of the President and his wife of graft. However, in my opinion we should not forget the possibility of the narcotics mafia involvement with the parcel bomb attacks. If you read from the newspaper, some of the narcotics mafia bosses have been captured by the police. Even one day an officer who managing a prison has been captured because his involvement with the narcotics mafia, who received illegal money through his grandson's bank account. I think we should not undere...