Minister of National Planning and Development (Bappenas) Suharso Monoarfa during the commitment signing of the 2023-2024 Corruption Prevention Action Implementation in Jakarta on March 9. (Photo:antaranews.com) Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesia’s Minister ofNational Planning and Development (Bappenas) Suharso Monoarfa on March 9announced six corruption prevention actions for the 2023-2024 period with afocus on state finance.
Speaking at a press conference on March 9, the ministersaid that the implementation of Indonesia’s National Strategy for CorruptionPrevention (Stranas PK) has entered its third period, with the sixanti-corruption actions to be implemented in 2023 and 2024.
Specifically, the first preventive action is tostrengthen digitalisation, planning, budgeting, and reporting for synergisingextreme poverty alleviation programmes.
The second is improving the performance of spendingon development by increasing the effectiveness of government procurement audits.
The third is strengthening the governance ofnon-tax revenue (PNBP), especially in mineral and coal commodities.
Regarding the 4th action, Indonesia will focus onreducing the risk of state revenue leakage by structuring the central government'sfixed assets and strengthening political parties in preventing corruption.
The country will also optimise datainteroperability based on the citizens' identity card numbers (NIK) used forgovernment programmes.
Last but not least, the action plan targets that theperformance of corruption prevention actions will be monitored every threemonths through the jaga.id application at the Corruption Eradication Commission(KPK).
Activities will be reported to the President by the KPK everysix months or anytime when the President orders.
The above plan is part of the National Strategy onAnti-Corruption (Stranas PK) issued by the President in 2018. The strategyincludes 15 action plans based on three focuses - licensing and corporategovernance, transparency of state finances, and reform of the bureaucracy andlaw enforcement./.
