"The President has instructed that actions to prevent corruption in the future must be (impactful) and not ceremonial," Pramodhawardani said in a written statement received here on Tuesday.
She made the remarks following the launch of the 2023–2024 National Action Strategy for Corruption Prevention.
She said that preventive measures against corruption must also be easy for the public to understand and must have strong novelty.
The national corruption prevention team launched the 2023–2024 National Corruption Prevention Strategy Action on Tuesday, following the conclusion of the 2021–2022 Corruption Prevention Action.
As per the mandate laid down in Presidential Regulation Number 54 of 2018 on the national corruption prevention strategy, the actions must be prepared every two years by the national corruption prevention team.
The team consists of the Corruption Eradication Commission, the Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry, Home Affairs Ministry, National Development Planning Ministry, and the Presidential Staff Office.
According to Pramodhawardani, there were three main criteria for the selection of the 2023–2024 National Corruption Prevention Strategy Action. Listing them, she said the first criterion was that the actions must have been proven to obtain results and support the improvement of government systems and governance, such as simplifying licensing and digitizing government.
The second was that the actions must support the national development agenda such as preventing corruption in the development of Nusantara capital city, the pursuit of development in Papua, and the 2024 simultaneous elections.
"The third parameter is actions that can improve the performance of corruption eradication in law enforcement agencies and the bureaucracy," she said.
Since they were first implemented in 2019, the efforts have shown good results, especially in priority sectors such as the National Identity Number utilization by the Home Affairs Ministry, the Social Affairs Ministry, and the regional government, which has resulted in improvements in the Integrated Social Welfare Database, Pramodhawardani noted.
The initiative has helped make the distribution of social assistance more effective and efficient, thereby relieving the burden on state finances.
She said that the licensing and bureaucratic reform actions at ports that were taken by the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Transportation Ministry, and Finance Ministry have also begun to show results.
The digitization of trucking system management, single billing, loading and unloading, and supervision has cut down the port stay time from three days to one day at several ports, such as Belawan, Makassar, Ambon, and Tanjung Priok, she revealed.
"The loading and unloading process, which was originally only eight to ten TEUs/crane per hour, has now become thirty-five to forty TEUs/crane per hour," she said.
These results have shown that the national corruption prevention team must further pursue collaboration with other entities, especially in evaluating the impact of corruption prevention and public communication related to it, she added.
"And what is no less important is working with the mass media as a strategic partner to improve our corruption prevention system," Pramodhawardani said.
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Editor: Sri Haryati
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