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Public in dark about abolished regulations: Researcher
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Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan (second from right) talks with several Cabinet ministers during a limited Cabinet meeting led by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (right) at the Presidential Office in Jakarta on Jan. 5. (thejakartapost.com/Wienda Parwitasari)
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hile the government has successfully cut thousands of regulations in an effort to improve the ease of doing business, the general public have been unable to assess each of the rules because of a lack of transparency, a researcher says.
Since September 2015, the government has revoked 215 rules at the national level and 3,143 regulations at the regional level. However, people are not in a position to evaluate the effectiveness of these measures, said Center for Regulatory Research chairman Ida Bagus Rahmadi Supancana.
"We need to have a clear methodology [before revoking the rules] as it takes around Rp 500 million [US$38,000] to Rp 1 billion to create one regional regulation," he told thejakartapost.com on Tuesday during The British Embassy’s discussion on regulatory issues in Jakarta.
The regional government regulations were usually drafted after academic papers by university or think tank institutions, which might have cost up to Rp 200 million, Bagus said. They also had to be discussed in the legislative council, with public consultations and hearings that were also costly.
He claimed the central government was still half-hearted in consulting with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and didn’t conduct proper research before abolishing thousands of rules.
"The OECD have a good standardized assessment method called Regulatory Impact Analysis. But the government has yet to endorse it seriously," Bagus said, pointing that Malaysia and South Korea had sought full support from the organization before taking similar measures. (ags)
