Plain Ideas for Indonesia

In the beginning of this month, National Police released a statement about Inafis, in which an identification card for identifying the crime history of citizen. The project received many comments from the people. Mostly it was because there was a similar project that is still going on, i.e. National identification card (e-KTP). Because of the comments from the public, the Inafis project was halted temporary. I agree with the  comments from the public and this temporary decision. However, I think now the government should learn from this case. It can also become the momentum for the government to regulate the ID card system. Uncoordinated initiatives from the public sector providers have made inconvenience condition to citizens. As a receiver of public service, currently a citizen has to hold many cards. If the government could not regulate ID card system, a citizen would not able to maintain all the cards in his/her pocket. As a result, it is very important for the g...

In handling the rising of corruption in Indonesia, an expert argued that there is a need in improving controlling system. We also need a leader who has character in punishing any government people who involved with corruption case. I agree with those statements. To fight corruption, it is very important to set up a good controlling system. The controlling system must be setup at every organization level. With good controlling system, there will be checks and balances among government institutions. Controlling system should also supporting by a leadership. A leader should has a character on implementing the controlling system. With leadership, every corruption allegation could be followed up as soon as possible. As a result, government people will think twice when they want to do corruption. Finally, it will minimize the corruption level in government organization.