Indonesia steps up anti-corruption in financial sector

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 of National Planning and Development (Bappenas) Suharso Monoarfa on March 9 announced six corruption prevention actions for the 2023-2024 period with a focus on state finance.

Speaking at a press conference on March 9, the minister said that the implementation of Indonesia’s National Strategy for Corruption Prevention (Stranas PK) has entered its third period, with the six anti-corruption actions to be implemented in 2023 and 2024.

Specifically, the first preventive action is to strengthen digitalisation, planning, budgeting, and reporting for synergising extreme poverty alleviation programmes.

The second is improving the performance of spending on development by increasing the effectiveness of government procurement audits.

The third is strengthening the governance of non-tax revenue (PNBP), especially in mineral and coal commodities.

Regarding the 4th action, Indonesia will focus on reducing the risk of state revenue leakage by structuring the central government's fixed assets and strengthening political parties in preventing corruption.

The country will also optimise data interoperability based on the citizens' identity card numbers (NIK) used for government programmes.

Last but not least, the action plan targets that the performance of corruption prevention actions will be monitored every three months through the jaga.id application at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

Activities will be reported to the President by the KPK every six months or anytime when the President orders.

The above plan is part of the National Strategy on Anti-Corruption (Stranas PK) issued by the President in 2018. The strategy includes 15 action plans based on three focuses - licensing and corporate governance, transparency of state finances, and reform of the bureaucracy and law enforcement./.