Ninety-four newly installed city councilors are expected to deliberate and pass 12 new bylaws next year, an official said Tuesday.
"*The councilors* have discussed how many bylaws to deliberate. We've set a target to pass 12 draft bylaws or more," City Council Speaker Ferrial Sofyan said on Tuesday.
Ferrial said nine draft bylaws were ready for deliberation, while three proposed drafts were in the pipeline.
The nine drafts ready for deliberation are those on civil servant investigators, regional capital, Jakarta Fair, private markets, fireworks and firecracker distribution, alcoholic beverage control, scholarship, business permits, and public and social facilities. The three other drafts are the proposed bylaws on spatial plan, single identity number and online tax.
Those draft bylaws had been submitted by the city administration's legal bureau during the 2006-2008 period to the City Council's legal division.
Ferrial said the deliberation of those bylaws would commence in December after the council completed the selection of councilors in charge of the draft deliberation.
"We will select 47 councilors to deliberate the draft bylaws," he said, adding the number in the legislative team should not exceed half of the total council members, in line with an existing government regulation.
"The spatial plan bylaw is among the proposed bylaws that are on the top of our list of priorities for deliberation," Ferrial said, adding the council was awaiting the submission of the draft bylaw on the city's 2010-2030 spatial plan from the Jakarta Development Planning Agency (Bappeda).
"I've heard *Bappeda* would complete it in November. If so, we want to discuss it in December and pass *the bylaw* in January next year."
Ferrial did not discuss the budget allocated to deliberate and pass the 12 bylaws, instead saying the council's legislative team was still calculating the projected costs.
"The budget discussion was set to be submitted to the Home Ministry by the end of this month," he said.
Previous city councilors who served in the 2004-2009 term passed one bylaw in 2005, eight in 2006, six in 2007, six in 2008 and two in 2009.
The two bylaws passed this year were the bylaw on traditional market area management and the bylaw on regional health systems.
In developments related to the draft bylaws, Jakarta Population and Civil Registration Agency head Franky Mangatas Panjaitan said earlier the agency was in need of a bylaw that regulated the implementation of single identity numbers (SIN) in the city.
The city administration plans to apply the SIN by 2010, one year earlier than the national target of 2011.
Under the law on population and civil registry and a 2009 presidential regulation, all citizens must have a single identity, which can be used for various administrative purposes.
The SIN policy is designed to better organize citizens' data, clamp down on people who have multiple ID cards, and streamline civil registry bureaucracy.
The administration also hopes to improve its tax system by proposing the bylaw draft on online tax.
This year the administration plans to introduce online tax payments for 800 taxpayers, including restaurants and hotels, to reduce the paperwork in the city bureaucracy.
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