MINISTRY HAS PREPARED NINE BILLS FOR BUREAUCRATIC REFORM

Jakarta, May 28 (ANTARA) - State Minister for State Administrative Reforms Taufiq Effendi said his office had drawn up nine bills for bureaucratic reform expected to be presented to parliament soon.

"The Administrative Reforms Ministry has made a creative and innovative breakthrough by preparing nine bills to serve as the pillars of bureaucratic reforms," the minister said in his paper distributed at a seminar on National Movement to Combat Corruption here on Wednesday.

Held in the parliamentary building, the minister during the seminar was represented by Eddy Bratakusumah, a senior official of the State Administrative Reforms Ministry.

The first bill has to do with public services, the main point of which is to guarantee the community to get proper services from the government bureaucracy.

"This bill on public services will in the near future be approved by the House of Representatives," the minister said.

The second is a bill on government administration, the objective of which is to create an efficient and productive government, to provide guidance to public officials in making administrative decisions and to prevent the community from administrative mismanagement and bureaucratic malpractices.

Marwan Batubara, the chairman of the corruption crimes (Tipikor) at the House of Representatives who was also a speaker, questioned the government's attitude to delay the approval of the draft bills on public service and that on the state administration.

"It seems there is a tendency to procrastinate the approval of draft bill on public services and that on state administration, as the two bills will likely bring losses to them," Marwan said.
In fact, the two draft bills were so important to guarantee public rights in dealing with the government bureaucracy.

The third is a draft bill on state employees which aims to create good character-oriented bureaucracy of the government officials who feel embarrassed to the wrong deed.

The fourth is the draft bill on state officials which aims to create good personnel administrative system.

The fifth is a bill on the relation between authority in the central and regional government which aims to strengthen the system of the decentralistic government in creating regional economy.

The sixth is bill on public service agency, the objective of which is to transform business principles in which the service is subject to a business like management.

The seventh is a bill on state ministry which aims to make state ministry on order which can not be dissolved in addition to forming basic pattern of the government.
The eighth is a bill on national supervisory system which aims to form an effective and efficient supervisory system and also to change the paradigm of supervision into a quality guarantee institution.

The ninth is a bill on accountability of state operators, the objective of which is to make a commitment of apparatuses' performance, measurement of performance and the evaluation of performance.

With the approval of the nine bills, it is expected that public confidence in the government's bureaucracy through an increased quality of public services will also improve, the minister said.