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Ahok promotes city e-budgeting as a model for state and regional budgets
Eyes peeled: Jakarta city councilors and members of the city administration attend a meeting for the Jakarta 2015 draft budget in March, 2015
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span class="caption">Eyes peeled: Jakarta city councilors and members of the city administration attend a meeting for the Jakarta 2015 draft budget in March, 2015. Watched closely by councilors, officials insert data into the e-budgeting program.(JP/Awo )
Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama wants Jakarta's electronic budgeting (e-budgeting) system to be used as a model for both the state budget and regional budgets.
The administration will produce a template for e-budgeting that can be used by regional administrations across the country, the governor said.
"If there is a template, other cities across Indonesia may replicate it or just use it as a reference [to develop their own system]," Ahok said on Thursday.
The Jakarta city administration began to use the e-budgeting system for its 2014 city budget.
If President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo materializes the government's plan to use an e-budgeting system for the state budget, Ahok said he would propose the city's e-budgeting model.
Apart from e-budgeting, the governor said his administration is currently promoting a tax form e-filing system for Jakarta residents.
Through an electronic system, the budgeting and tax records are transparent. Data is easily traced through the application, he said, adding that, with such a transparent taxation system, more people would voluntarily pay their taxes.
For example, the city administration received a 25 percent increase in restaurant tax payments in January and February this year, compared to the same period last year, Ahok explained. (bbn)(+)
