"Coordination is very important to facilitate a problem-solving process and help investors find information on potential investments in different regions. However, the central and regional governments are sometimes at odds over the issue," BKPM Chief Thomas Lembong said here on Wednesday.
BKPM will focus on solving the issue in order to increase investment inflows by launching the so-called "KIS" (coordination, integration and standardization) program between the central and regional governments and among regional governments, he stated.
Besides coordination, integration is also important to support the system, he noted.
"I would like to point out that in the central government itself many systems have not been integrated. Even in the same office, the computers are not interconnected. This makes it difficult to obtain the database of the system," he added.
The BKPM chief remarked that he wished to adopt a one-stop system, which could facilitate integration between the agency and regions, to ease the licensing process.
He pointed out that standardization remained the most vital thing among the three factors affecting investment.
Currently, each region has its own standard. "When it comes to the use of forms, one region may be different from the other. Hence, it causes difficulties to standardize the administrative system," he underlined.(*)
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