"The government is committed to optimizing the quality of its spending for a better development achievement," Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo told a seminar on "Linking Performance Evaluation to Budgeting" here on Monday.
The minister said that with the reforms of panning and budgeting system, the government hoped that it would be able to improve the quality of its spending.
"To reach a maximal achievement, Indonesia should learn more lessons from countries which have applied this system. By learning a lesson from other countries` experience, Indonesia will be able to develop a system which is more suitable with its condition," the minister said.
National Development Planning Minister Armida Alisjahbana said meanwhile that the system that would be implemented in 2012 was expected to create a better, more effective and efficient bureaucracy.
"This strategy requires several better reform steps because it will need institutional capacity to apply it," he said.
He said that the research results showed that the government had to improve many things, namely the overall work frameworks, starting from the performance-based budgeting to implementation of mid-term spending framework.
The government also needs to evaluate and include its results in the budget allocation. The same thing should also happen with the development of incentives for performance.
"Information on performance should be used to reinforce the overall performance of the decision making process," he said.
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