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View all search resultsIn managing the country's tobacco industry, all rational considerations are crushed by economic-industrial dictums with populist mantras such as job creation and tax and excise contributions, to contributions to the state budget.
While discussions on social media is one way to engage the public in policymaking, the powers that be should not wait for a problematic policy to go viral, and instead involve public participation before as part of the process.
The belated controversy over the entertainment tax rates show that the central government, in particular the financial and home ministries, must take an active role in building the capacities of regional administrations to draft implementing regulations that involve meaningful public participation.
Increasing the state research budget to equal 1 percent of GDP is ideal but the government can also engage the domestic public and private sectors to fund think tanks to promote evidence-based informed policymaking.
Indonesia may reap significant benefits if the country can fully utilize its services potential, but the government must first ease restrictions and enact sweeping policy reforms to actually realize it, World Bank said.
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