JAKARTA – Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) Abdullah Azwar Anas presented the achievements of bureaucratic reform over a period of 10 years. The trend of the bureaucratic reform index is reported has been increased, including its impact on poverty reduction efforts, increased investment, as well as the use of domestic products and strengthening the digital ecosystem of the Indonesian government.
“This shows the consistency of the government’s efforts in improving better governance in realizing a bureaucracy that is clean, accountable, effective, efficient and able to provide excellent public services to the community,” explained Minister Anas, Tuesday (15/10).
In the last five years, Indonesia’s bureaucratic reform has contributed significantly to various achievements on a global scale that have brought Indonesia to a position that is quite competitive with various countries in the world.
Firstly, based on Worldwide Governance Indicators, Indonesia managed to move up the rankings from 99 (2017) to 73 (2022) for Government Effectiveness and moved up from 94 to 87 for Regulatory Quality.
Second, Indonesia’s ranking in the Global Innovation Index rose from 85th (2019) to 54th (2024).
Third, Indonesia’s Electronic Government Development Index (EGDI) ranking rose from 107th (2017) to 64th (2024).
Fourth, Indonesia’s ranking in the perspective of the business sector is also no less competitive with other countries.
The implementation of bureaucratic reform shows a good improvement, the average trend of the Bureaucratic Reform Index shows an increasing number both in ministries / institutions and provinces / regencies / cities.
For the average BR Index in ministries / institutions which in 2014 reached 52.31 to 76.81 in 2023, in the province from 41.62 to 69.71, while in the district / city from 55.97 to 59.32.
During his time, Minister Anas accelerated the implementation of bureaucratic reforms by focusing on thematic bureaucratic reforms that target four main focuses.
These are poverty reduction, increased investment, digitisation of government administration, and acceleration of the president’s actual priorities which include controlling inflation and increasing the use of domestic products (PDN).
As a result, regions that implemented significant thematic BR recorded an average poverty rate of 5.16 per cent, well below the national average.
On the other hand, the implementation of thematic BR also contributed 63 per cent of the total increase in investment in Indonesia. Meanwhile, in the PDN procurement sector, the implementation of thematic BR increased the realization of PDN by 14 per cent from the previous year from 76 to 90.34.
“All of these thematic areas are supported by the Electronic-Based Government System Architecture (SPBE) to maintain integration and alignment of steps in implementing digitalisation,” he said.
Over the last 10 years, more and more agencies have implemented money follow programme, programme follow result. The implementation of the Government Agency Performance Accountability System (SAKIP) is able to prevent the potential for waste of APBN / APBD and prevent the use of budgets that are not on target.
Efforts to accelerate digital transformation and integration of government digital services have been made by Anas and supported by ministries / agencies by forming Government Technology (GovTech) called INA DIGITAL.
President Jokowi has inaugurated INA DIGITAL on 27 May 2024 as the coordinator of the government’s digital service ecosystem that integrates thousands of applications.
As a follow-up, the Ministry of PANRB together with the Ministry of SOEs, Ministry of Communications and Informatics, Peruri, and INA Digital (Govtech Indonesia) have released the initial phase of the national portal and integrated digital identity in the form of INApas, INAku, and INAgov. This integration is also a strategic step to accelerate Indonesia’s digital transformation.
Minister Anas said that the achievement of the National SPBE index continues to rise. From 1.98 in 2018 to 2.79 in 2023.
“This has exceeded the national target of 2.6,” he explained.
Meanwhile, at the international level, the UN E-Government Development Index (EGDI) also shows an increase in rank from 107 (2018) to 64 (2024), placing Indonesia for the first time in countries with very high EGDI. Not only that, the Gov Tech Maturity Index rose from B to A (2022).
The government has also simplified the bureaucracy during President Jokowi’s tenure. There are more than 55,000 organizational units that have been simplified. In terms of equalizing structural positions, there are 43 thousand positions within ministries and institutions that have been equalized into functional positions.
In addition, the Ministry of PANRB also simplified the classification of executive positions from 3,414 classifications to three classifications.
This arrangement is expected to support an increasingly effective and agile bureaucracy in line with the development of digital work mechanisms and business processes.
To improve the ease of service for the public, the government has established 280 Public Service Malls (MPPs), both physical and digital, across Indonesia.
“The number of MPPs is now increasing outside Java, excellent public services are not only centered in Java. This means that the Indonesia-centric concept is not only related to physical infrastructure, but also related to public services,” Anas said.
During Anas’ leadership, the transformation of ASN management has been carried out as stated in the amendment to the new State Civil Apparatus (ASN) Law, namely Law No. 20/2023. The ASN Management RPP as a derivative of the Law will be completed soon. The government has made various transformations in ASN management including procurement, HR for certain organizations, PPPK, competency development, rank status, employee leave, dismissal, and digitalisation of ASN management.
The government has also transformed/changed the period of promotion for civil servants. This is certainly beneficial for civil servants because they will not be delayed for a long time if they want to get promoted.
“There were only two periods in one year before. Now it’s 6 submission periods,” said Anas.
In relation to organisational simplification, the government has integrated Non-Structural Organisations (LNS).
“In a period of ten years, there have been several dissolutions of LNS. There are 38 LNS that have been dissolved from 2019 to 2024,” said Anas.
In the implementation of bureaucratic reform evaluation, the Ministry of PANRB has simplified the process by eliminating the self-assessment (PMPRB), which has been resource-consuming and requires answering 259 question components and uploading thousands of documents.
The BR evaluation only calculates 26 impact indicators which include poverty, investment, digitalisation, domestic product spending, inflation control, and so on.
Video of bureaucratic reform achievements can be viewed through the following link: https://youtu.be/ZGhkr5mln1c?si=f2ZygUet9EmDD8IW.
