Jakarta (ANTARA) - State Apparatus Utilization and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Rini Widyantini has stressed that the success of President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship programs will hinge on structural reforms, making collaboration between stakeholders necessary.

To pursue the ambitious reforms, support in strategic areas is key, she said. The areas include restructuring governance, simplifying business processes, synchronizing policies among institutions, building civil servant capacity, and ensuring effective budgeting, she added.

“These complex (solutions) require cross-stakeholder coordination, policy alignment, and strategic issues management. Only through comprehensive approach can development programs be truly (carried out) sustainably,” Widyantini said here on Wednesday.

President Prabowo Subianto’s priority programs aim to lay the foundation for a new civilization, starting with sectors such as nutrition, healthcare, education, economy, and housing, she explained.

The programs are expected to build on each other to ensure decent living standards for people, nutritious food, healthcare, education to help people escape the trap of poverty, economic initiatives to bolster welfare, and proper housing, the minister elaborated.

The priority programs include free nutritious meals (MBG) for 82.9 million school children, free health checkups (CKG), and the construction of 3 million decent homes, she noted.

Moreover, the government will provide free, boarding-based public schools for children from underprivileged families. The government’s efforts to strengthen the economy have started from the level of villages through the creation of 80 thousand village and urban cooperatives.

“This represents the state’s presence. The new one which uplifts the civilization of the Indonesians,” she highlighted.

She further explained that the President and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka have also issued clear directives on bureaucratic reform to build a more responsive bureaucracy that caters to public needs by pursuing policy implementation and strengthening coordination among institutions.

The President has also stressed budget management to make programs more effective and produce tangible results.

“This directive is backed by a strong commitment to eradicate corruption and prevent budget leakage within the bureaucracy,” she explained.

President Prabowo is also pushing for a stronger, more disciplined, productive, and competent civil service (ASN) to serve the public, she said.

She noted that digital transformation, which aims to create an outcome- and value-oriented digital government, is also a key priority to improve public services by making them faster, more transparent, so they can better meet citizens’ needs.

“A new civilization can only be realized through collaborative, impact-oriented leadership capable of navigating complexity with a spirit of change, in a bid to support the realization of the President’s priority programs,” she said.

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