Comment: The path to freedom of information

Dec. 6, p. 1

The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has stopped publishing online reports, much to the dismay of freedom of information proponents. The agency said the state institutions it audited had complained that it was “too open”.
The BPK provided reports through the Internet even before the 2008 Freedom of Information Law was implemented this year. The law has compelled many state institutions to open online access to public information like court verdicts, police investigation reports and public tenders.
 
Your comments:

How could people have used these reports to blackmail them when they were not secret but open to public view? What a load.
Publish the reports like you should and at least attempt to be transparent. Obviously these companies have something to hide if they are requesting an end to online publishing of reports. It’s a shame they use such lame excuses to do so.
Lauren
Palembang

It is a massive step backwards. What can they be being blackmailed about? They should be made to explain. Why should we be forced to accept this decision by the Supreme Audit Agency?
The Supreme Audit Agency is itself obviously corrupting the whole concept and process of freedom of information. Surely the Supreme Audit Agency is responsible to the people, not crooked bureaucrats. They have simply caved in to pressure by criminal elements.
Didi
Bandung