The Jakarta administration has set its 2023 regional budget (APBD) at Rp 83.78 trillion (US$5.35 billion). Residents of the capital city must know how the budget will be used.

Roy Rening, as a representative of Lukas’ legal team, was met after the meeting and explained that the KPK had named Lukas a suspect in an alleged gratification case worth Rp 1 billion in 2020.

By learning from the problems this year and in preceding years, improvements would be made next year by encouraging regional administrations to execute early tenders.

This is what we all pay attention to. The Finance Ministry, the Home Ministry and the Health Ministry hold a meeting every week with governors and regents whose areas are categorized as red zones

During the commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Indonesian Teachers Association on 28 November 2020, President Jokowi stated that the government plans to recruit more state-employed teachers using contracts.

Local governments need to speed up the budget disbursement so that the budget spending can support the real sector which has been sluggish in recent months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Effective government cannot be achieved simply by downsizing the bureaucracy. It requires changing the work culture in addition to overcoming regulatory disharmony and interinstitutional incoordination.