Jakarta (Antara Bali) - The Indonesian government plans to relax 12,471 regulations to harmonize and simplify bureaucracy in a bid to expedite development and provide non-fiscal incentives to businessmen and investors, a minister stated.
Over 10 thousand regulations had been issued over the past 10 years without comprehensive planning and proper coordination among institutions, Minister of National Development Planning Sofyan Djalil noted here recently.
As a consequence, several regulations are overlapping or are repetitions of the earlier ones. Moreover, several regulations contradict each other as they concern the same sectors but with different mechanisms, Djalil, concurrently the chairman of the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), pointed out.
"Many regulations have resulted in high cost to the economy," he said while launching the National Strategy of Regulation Reform.
The ministry will request each technical ministry and institution to review the existing regulations issued during the past 10 years.
The results will be presented to President Joko Widodo. Later, with the directives of the head of state, Bappenas will lead a long-term effort to relax those regulations, he added.
"The deregulation of 154 regulations announced in the economic policy packages made public by the coordinating economic ministry is only a small part of the over 10 thousand regulations," he remarked.
Within a year, at least 50 percent of those problematic regulations will be simplified, he remarked.
Of the total 12,471 regulations, 8,331 are ministerial regulations, 2446 government regulations, 2258 presidential regulations, 1550 presidential decrees, 247 presidential instructions, and 48 government regulations en lieu of laws, and 916 laws.
At the regional level, Bappenas has found out that the local administrations had issued 28,752 regulations over the past 10 years.
Bappenas also plans to simplify those regulations through coordination with the local administrations.
According to the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), in terms of regulatory quality, Indonesias percentile rank stood at 46 percent, or below the Philippines at 52 percent, Thailand 58 percent, Malaysia 72 percent, Brunei Darussalam 83 percent, and Singapore at 100 percent.(WDY)
