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Simpler budget reporting scheme needed to tackle inefficiency: Jokowi
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Confidence boost: President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo delivers remarks during the 100 Indonesian Economists Forum on Dec. 6 in Jakarta. (Antara/Puspa Perwitasari)
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he government plans to streamline the procedure for filing state budget spending reports (SPJ) in an effort to scrap another source of inefficiency within the country's notoriously slow bureaucracy.
Speaking in a seminar on Tuesday, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said the current SPJ procedures absorbed up to 70 percent of the workforce in government institutions, creating severe inefficiency.
"Even teachers and headmasters have to stay up late to complete SPJs," he said, adding that a government project could require up to 44 separate spending reports.
The President said he had instructed Finance Minister Sri Mulyani to formulate a new procedure that only required civil servants to file two SPJs, instead of 44, for every project.
"The most important thing is [the implementation of] supervision management to make sure that any problem can be quickly spotted," he said. (hwa)
