Obama’s victory received support extensive support within Silicon Valley. It is difficult to state that there is no strong connection between this support and the utilization of ICT in the “open government” doctrine of the Obama administration. ICT has been chosen as the primary media in building transparency and opening up participatory room. To assist […]
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The Right to Information Regime The right to information is a human right as stated in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. [1] Countries have ratified it in accordance with the dynamics of their internal conditions. In doing so, some have
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The Central Information Commission (KI) will conduct a local inspection to the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) for failing to provide strong evidence of exempted information. The inspection is conducted by the Central Information Commission to resolve the information dispute related to the Hambalang audit case between BPK as the respondent and the Center for Regional
Accountability In the Perspective of Social Relations The term accountability is semantically related to accountancy, otherwiseknown as bookkeeping (Boven, 2008). [1] The concept of accountability can be traced to the reign of William the Conqueror, beginning with the Norman conquest of England in 1066. In 1085, Wiliam ordered all landowners in his territory to calculate
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Thanks to the alertness of residents to access information to the Education and Culture Office, the improper distribution of funds to students receiving Poor Students Assistance (BSM) at SMP 4 Lingsar, Sigerongan Village, West Lombok could be avoided. Chronologically, Community Strengthening Facilitator of CATI-PATTIRO Program West Lombok Nurjanah explained the details of the incident as
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In the fourth week of January 2014, The Ministry for Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (KemenPAN-RB) disclosed that there are still 449 district/city governments whose public service accountability performance is below the category of good. The Deputy Assistant of the Evaluation System of Bureaucratic Reform, Administrative Accountability and KemenPAN-RB Supervision, Gatot Sugiarto revealed that in this
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The idea of an “open government” has been an important issue in the United States ever since President Obama took office in 2008. In US history, the term “open government” was first coined in 1953 by Harrod Cross. Representing the coalition of newspaper editors known as the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), Cross utilised
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As ruled out in the Act of the Republic of Indonesia No. 31 of 2004 on Regional Government, and the Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia No. 37 of 2007 on Distribution of Governmental Affairs between the Central Government, Provincial Government and Regency/City Government, the application of decentralisation becomes an essential step expected to be
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As ruled out in the Act of the Republic of Indonesia No. 31 of 2004 on Regional Government, and the Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia No. 37 of 2007 on Distribution of Governmental Affairs between the Central Government, Provincial Government and Regency/City Government, the application of decentralization becomes an essential step expected to be
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Civil lawsuit Number 03/BAKUMHAM-OTDA/GOLKAR-NTB/I/2014 was filed by the Golkar West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Regional Leadership Council (DPD) through their attorneys to the Mataram District Court after refusing to provide the information requested by Suhardi. Suhardi was sued to provide compensation of one billion Rupiah. It was also stated that Suhardi’s request for information was a
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Despite being opposed and rejected by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemdagri) stated that it would still inaugurate the elected Regent of Gunung Mas district, Central Kalimantan province, Hambit Bintih. The Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Gamawan Fauzi stated that the inauguration of Hambit Bintih had to be carried out
Discretionary action (freedom to make decisions) is often required in the practice of administering public services. Discretion needs to be exercised, bearing in mind that the scope of regulation can never cover in a comprehensive and detailed manner all matters relating to developments and situations, timing, needs and demands of public service delivery. Discretionary innovations
