JAKARTA – The government continues to move forward with Indonesia’s efforts to become a full member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
In preparation for membership, the government has launched the OECD Accession Portal as a platform to be used by the OECD National Team.
Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, as Chief Executive of the OECD National Team, said that the National Team, consisting of 64 ministries/agencies divided into 26 committees, will use this portal to coordinate with each other on the objectives of each sector.
The National Team will also prepare a first memorandum, which is an overview of Indonesia’s policies compared to OECD instruments.
“The OECD Accession Portal is a digital system that will monitor Indonesia’s accession process as a full member of the OECD. This requires total football diplomacy as we must be accepted by consensus,” said Minister Airlangga at the OECD National Team Coordination Meeting & Launch of the OECD Accession Portal in Jakarta on Thursday (3/10).
The OECD Accession Portal was launched by Minister Hartarto, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) Abdullah Azwar Anas, Deputy Foreign Minister Pahala Mansury, and Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Nurul Ghufron.
This digital platform is an effort to increase transparency in the work process and to speed up the accession process, which can take up to three years.
Airlangga said Indonesia was the first ASEAN country to register as a full member of the OECD and to be accepted for the accession process.
“We hope that we can maintain this first accession process with the spirit of strengthening the national economy so that Indonesia has standards equivalent to those of OECD member countries,” he said.
The Minister of Finance, who is also the Vice-Chairman of the OECD National Team, said that Indonesia’s accession process to the OECD is also being carried out for structural improvements to various OECD instruments that affect all ministries/agencies.
The content of these instruments is cross-agency, so it is important to have a sense of ownership in working on this accession.
“We are doing this to build our own country and also to meet the requirements to become an OECD member. For this to be good and for Indonesia to become a member of the OECD, that is the end result,” said Minister Sri Mulyani.
Speaking on the occasion, PANRB Minister Abdullah Azwar Anas said that Indonesia’s process to become an OECD member country is an extraordinary momentum.
The government, he said, will carry out in-depth reforms to align indicators and policies with OECD instruments.
“This is an extraordinary momentum. If Indonesia passes to become an OECD member country, then we will be on par with developed countries in the world. This really requires total football diplomacy and ownership because the accession process is not easy,” he continued.
Minister Anas also said that the Ministry of PANRB is currently developing a World Class Bureaucracy (WCB) tool that will identify gaps in the Indonesian government’s compliance with international standards, including OECD standards.
This tool will also serve as a driver for the fulfillment of conditions that need to be followed to support Indonesia’s accession to the OECD.
Ministry of PANRB, as the person in charge of public governance in the OECD national team, has carried out several things, including sharing tasks with ministries/institutions to prepare initial memoranda in the field of public governance and mapping the relationship between OECD legal instruments and the National Bureaucratic Reform Grand Design (GDRBN).
The ministry is also an active participant in OECD activities and participates in surveys conducted by the OECD, hoping to support the alignment of public governance policies and practices with OECD standards.
“This accession strengthens our commitment so that our indicators are in line with those of developed countries. This is not easy to achieve. Hence, this accession process requires the commitment of the Indonesian government to be in line with the values of developed countries, which are fought together for the good of Indonesia,” he concluded.
