A Proactive Transparency in Indonesia and Its Challenges

Yusnaeni, Triana Nurchayati, Ika Karlina Idris

2019

Abstract

Transparency does not only mean opening or providing information upon citizens' requests, but it also means providing public information in a proactive way. In the context of government agency and public rights to information, a proactive transparency can occur if the information and data management officials understand their obligations and the scope of public information, such as a.) the types of public information, b.) its categorization, c.) the working units that have such information, and d) data dan documentation management. This paper investigates whether proactive transparency is possible to happen in the context of Indonesia—as the country has been implementing the Public Information Disclosure Act since 2008. We conducted a focus group discussion with the Information and Documentation Management Officer (PPID), a working unit in a government agency that obliges to serve public information, in one of the ministries in Indonesia. The focus group's objective was to explore whether individuals in PPID understand the act, its scope, and consequences of the act on the PPID works. This study found that officials in PPID have limited understanding of the law and proactive transparency. In this case, the biggest challenge happened at the organizational level as well as at the individual level

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Yusnaeni., Nurchayati T. and Idris I. (2019). A Proactive Transparency in Indonesia and Its Challenges.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Anti-Corruption and Integrity - Volume 1: ICOACI, ISBN 978-989-758-461-9, pages 114-122. DOI: 10.5220/0009400801140122

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icoaci19,
author={Yusnaeni and Triana Nurchayati and Ika Karlina Idris},
title={A Proactive Transparency in Indonesia and Its Challenges},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Anti-Corruption and Integrity - Volume 1: ICOACI,},
year={2019},
pages={114-122},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009400801140122},
isbn={978-989-758-461-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Anti-Corruption and Integrity - Volume 1: ICOACI,
TI - A Proactive Transparency in Indonesia and Its Challenges
SN - 978-989-758-461-9
AU - Yusnaeni.
AU - Nurchayati T.
AU - Idris I.
PY - 2019
SP - 114
EP - 122
DO - 10.5220/0009400801140122