[Jakarta, 3 July 2014] On 23 – 26 June 2014, the UN convened the 2014 edition of the United Nations Public Service Forum. This yearly UN forum was held at the Korea International Exhibition Centre (KINTEX), Seoul, Republic of Korea. The forum, titled “Innovating Governance for Sustainable Development and Well-being of the People”, was organised […]
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By: Robert Endi Jaweng, Jakarta | Opinion | Tue, March 11 2014 London-listed Churchill Mining Plc Corp. has brought its mining dispute with the Indonesian government before the Washington-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), demanding over US$1 billion in compensation for losses caused by the revocation of its mining permits by the East
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[Denpasar, May 6 2014, Luh De Suriyani] Civil Society Organizations (CSO) in the Asia Pacific have created a communiqué to urge governments of Open Government Partnership (OGP) country members to implement the principles of open government.. In their joint communiqué, the 153 organizations stressed the importance and need to establish, expand and consolidate civic space.
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From: Mickael Bobby Hoelman, Jakarta | Opinion | Tuesday, May 20, 2014 The Open Government Partnership (OGP) Asia Pacific Regional Conference was held recently in Bali. It was the first conference in Asia Pacific since the OGP initiative was launched in 2011, and was intended as a platform of cooperation for countries and civil society
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[Denpasar, March 25, 2014] The fourth UN High Level Panel on Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) kicks off Monday in Bali, focusing on the global aspect of the agenda, as well as its implementation. The five stakeholder groups — the Academic and Research Global Forum, the Public Sector Forum, the Business Community Forum, the Civil
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By: Hanif Nurcholis, Postgraduate Lecturer at the Open University, Secretary General of the Association of State Administration Scientists. The politics of local government in our country always go back and forth, from decentralized to centralized and vice versa (Bhenyamin Hoessein, 1993). At the beginning of independence, our country adopted a decentralized model (Law No. 1/1945,
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Decentralization in Indonesia began on May 7, 1999. The decentralization referred to here is the conception and practice of decentralization in accordance with the Reform Agenda: implementing regional autonomy as wide as possible. This decentralization milestone was marked by the issuance of Law Number 22 of 1999 concerning Regional Government. Since then, the Regional Government
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In the 2013 Global Peaceful Index (GPI) Report, Indonesia is ranked the 54th most peaceful country out of 162 countries in the world, with a score of 0.1879. Indonesia’s ranking is quite high compared to 4 other countries in the ASEAN region, namely Cambodia (115), the Philippines (129), Thailand (130), and Burma (140). In addition
From 2012 to 2015, PATTIRO has been given a mandate by Indonesia civil society, both civil society organizations, which involved in the Freedom Of Information Network Indonesia (FOINI) and CSOs from OGI Core Team, to be the coordinator of the coalition. To run PATTIRO role as national coordinator of both the civil society coalition, PATTIRO
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For the upcoming National Election of President and Vice President, on July 9, 2014, we are faced with two tickets. Both have been officially designated as a candidate for President and Vice President by the Commission. Both of them have also obtained the serial numbers of each candidacy. Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa obtained the
Taking the momentum of the upcoming Open Government Partnership (OGP) Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Nusa Dua, Bali on May 6-7, 2014, we, 183 representatives of civil society organizations coming from 31 Asia Pacific countries and beyond came together on the Civil Society Day in Nusa Dua on May 4, 2014 to discuss key issues
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The Regional Center for Research and Information (PATTIRO) questions the government’s commitment to the Open Government Partnership (OGP) movement because until now the government does not yet have a clear and detailed action plan (reaction) to support the open government movement. In addition, the government’s commitment to the OGP movement is not serious and is
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