In July 23rd – August 11th 2007 I’ve followed some agendas in Revenue Forecasting Internship Program in the Australian Department of Treasury. I would like to take the materials I’ve earned to a report but It hasn’t finished yet.
But one most important lesson that I could conclude is that there are a needs for Indonesia to develop a transparency system which can disclose every relevant data for being used by relevant users without barriers. The very popular characteristic of developed countries is an openness of data and its access. This situation lead them easier in directing every phases of government processes.
The different situation happened in our country, Indonesia. Access to data is an expensive issue, even to the departments of the same office. Furthermore, the problems grew to the lack of data needed in our planning of national economy. Every efforts which intended for getting the data is viewed as an intervension to the data owner, give threats to the secret that unexplainable, and also – oh my God – disturb them in getting the money from manipulating the data.
In Australia, I visited some offices and brainstormed some issues with some key persons from Ministry of Finance (MOF), Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), Australian Customs Office (ACO), Australian Taxation Office (ATO), Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australian Reserve Bank (ARB), etc.
I will disseminate my final report thru this blog.
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