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[DISCOURSE] Public input enriches draft regulations for Job Creation Law
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The Karawang industrial estate in West Java (kompas.com/File)
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em>In formulating dozens of implementing regulations for the Job Creation Law that was enacted on Nov. 2 last year, the government welcomes feedback from the public. Franky Sibarani, who heads a team established by the Office of Coordinating Economic Minister to gather public input concerning the planned government regulations (PP) and presidential regulations (Perpres), shared with The Jakarta Post’s Marchio Irfan Gorbiano recently the progress the team had made to meet the three-month deadline mandate.
Question: Your team recently talked with Muhammadiyah about implementing regulations on the hospital sector. Could you elaborate on your team’s efforts to gather input from the public?
Answer: We met with Muhammadiyah executives on Tuesday [Dec. 15]. We had long discussions to clarify whether their concerns about the implementing regulations were already included in the draft. It was a simple meeting but it was useful to confirm their suggestions.
There were a lot of meetings with communities, such as farmers and fisher communities, students and associations of small and medium enterprises [SMEs]. We also met with chief editors of media organizations as well as the association of cyber media. There is a lot of interesting feedback but we cannot talk about what is black or white, right or wrong. We are welcoming all the feedback.
We will continue to gather the public’s aspirations until the end of January before we finalize the draft regulations. I don’t think the government will immediately issue all the regulations in early February.
There seems to be a different drafting phase in each of the implementing regulations. Some could be more advanced than others. What areas of input from the public are you prioritizing and for what regulations?
We are trying to wrap up regulations on SMEs. We are trying to push it so that we can immediately hand over the feedback to the government because of several findings about the inconsistencies between the Job Creation Law and the preliminary draft of the PP. I think it will be very crucial that we accelerate the feedback-gathering process and submit it to the government to revise the draft regulation before it is signed.
