Plain Ideas for Indonesia

Yesterday, I had some guests from Ministry of Civil Service Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform. Currently, they are developing Government Resource Management System (GRMS). They have researched the implementation of some systems in each ministry. For example, they learned that e-planning has been developed at Ministry of Planning, e-budgeting at Ministry of Finance, e, procurement at Procurement Policy Agency, and so on. However, they never learned about the implementation of e-controlling system. As a result, they could not finish the GRMS concept. To finalize the concept, they were searching e-controlling system. They were very lucky when they received information from one of deputies at Ministry of Civil Service Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform. According to deputy, he heard that my office was in the process of implementing e-controlling system. That was the reason why they visited my office.

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.

What is the best thing about Indonesia? Do you proud as an Indonesian? I do proud as an Indonesian. However, I do understand mostly you do not happy with the news on the Internet and TV. It is because mostly the news release about the corruption scandals. Many people have been involved with the scandals. Sadly, the scandals are involving the leaders from political parties and parliament members. But, I am sure it is only a matter of the process. It is the process to be mature. We are in the process to be the new amazing countries. To achieve this, we should be patience. We should be able to maintain our vitality in achieving the objective as one of the best countries in the world.

If you come to Bandung, please try "Aroma", one of the traditional coffees from Indonesia.

These people make it more crowded at LotteMart Bintaro Jaya. They are under pressure of the performance target, but make us not comfortable with the mall.

It's very crowded because of grand opening.