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Application of the FOI Act and Community Advocacy will Encourage Budget Absorption

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At the end of every year, the low budget absorption by government, both at the central and local level, always features significantly in the news. At the beginning of November 2013, the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) recorded local government budget absorption to be at only 68% on average throughout Indonesia. Whilst at the beginning […]

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Asking for Information, Manokwari Residents Get Certainty on Puskesmas Schedule

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A request for information by a group of residents represented by Agustina Salosa to the Manokwari Regency Health Office of West Papua about the puskesmas service schedule yielded results. Eight days after the request for information was submitted, officers from the Health Service provided the requested documents directly. The document is in the form of

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Press Release: Tends to Increase in the Regions Ahead of General Elections and Pilkada PATTIRO: The Ministry of Home Affairs Must Tighten Monitoring the Use of Grant Funds

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The Center for Regional Studies and Information (PATTIRO) asked the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) to pay attention to the allocation of grants submitted by local governments in the 2014 fiscal year. PATTIRO sees that currently, the allocation of grants in the regions tends to increase and it is feared that regional heads will take

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Laziness of the regional government spending the budget disturbing Pattiro Public Services: The Ministry of Home Affairs must be firmly sanctioned

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Until the beginning of November 2013, the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) recorded an average absorption of regional government budget only 68%. Even though this year the central government has transferred funds of Rp 529.40 trillion to the regions. Minister of Home Affairs Gamawan Fauzi said, the low expenditure of the regional government budget was

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Communities Threatened to Pay Highly for Public Services PATTIRO: There is a Systemic Effort to Eliminate SOEs as Public Entities

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The Center for Regional Studies and Information (PATTIRO) assesses that currently there are several events that can be regarded as systemic efforts to eliminate State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) as Public Bodies which have the obligation to provide information to the public in accordance with the provisions of Law number 14 of 2008 concerning Public Information Disclosure

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Gender responsive budgeting accelerates progress toward achieving MDGs: Watchdog

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Independent watchdog on state and local budget, Pattiro, says the implementation of gender responsive budgeting (ARG) will accelerate progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015. ARG is a budgeting mechanism which involves men and women simultaneously to actively participate in each stage of the budget process to ensure interests of the two

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North Lombok 2013 Local Budget (APBD) Pocketbook

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Health and education budget information pocketbook is an actualization of local government’s commitment for budget and policy transparency. Through this book, the public receives the correct information so that they can see their local government performance particularly in local budgeting in North Lombok. Local government budget (APBD) is conducted transparently and responsibly and is utilized

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Press Release: PATTIRO: Implementation of ARG will Accelerate Achievement of 2015 MDGs Targets

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Currently, many people doubt that some of the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets proclaimed by the Government will be difficult to achieve in 2015. One of the 2015 MDGs targets that is difficult to achieve is to reduce maternal mortality. The results of the 2012 Demographic and Health Survey conducted by the Central Statistical

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The Effective Use of Special Autonomy Funds in Papua and West Papua Can be Achieved Through Information Transparency

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From 2002 until 2012, Papua Province received Rp 28.444 trillion in special autonomy funds and Rp. 5.271 trillion in infrastructure funding. Whilst, West Papua Province that was established in 2008, has received Rp. 5.409 trillion in special autonomy funds and Rp. 2.962 trillion in infrastructure funding. The question that arises from this is what has

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