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Efforts to improve ease in doing business should extend outside Jakarta, Surabaya: Group
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Businesspeople apply for permits at the One-Stop Service Agency of Batam, which provides three-hour investment service for eight kinds of permits.
(JP/Fadli)
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he central government has been urged to strengthen its monitoring and dissemination of information on economic packages in the regions to ensure comprehensive ease of doing business reform, a Regional Autonomy Watch (KPPOD) director has said.
KPPOD executive director Robert Endi Jaweng said the ongoing reform had been prioritized in Jakarta and Surabaya in East Java, two cities known as major places for doing business in Indonesia.
"The reforms have been concentrated in these two cities, while other cities have been given less priority," he said on Monday on the sidelines of an event on the implementation of investment policy packages in the regions.
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The KPPOD has conducted a study measuring seven major cities in the country, including Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung in West Java, Denpasar in Bali and Palembang in South Sumatra to determine the level of ease in doing business in the respective areas.
It gauges the number of procedures, length of time, cost and minimum amount of capital needed to obtain a business permit, a construction permit and to register ownership and use of a building.
Robert said that only Jakarta and Surabaya got good scores in the assessment, suggesting that concerted efforts were needed in disseminating information and monitoring in other regions.
"There should be an evaluation and concrete programs for the regions," he said. (fac/evi)
