Anggaran ... he he he ... hari gini kok bicara anggaran. Others have successfully flown to space several times partly due to well-managed budget, we ridicule ourselves with budgeting for pointless activities.
Well, the story commences with BAWASLU and Pokja Waslu Deplu RI who will on 20-21 June 2009 carry out BIMTEK (a short training) on presidential election supervision in Sydney for Sydney, Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Kinabalu, Kuching and Johor Baru-based WASLU LN. Other BIMTEK will also be conducted in four cities, i.e. SEOUL (for Tokyo, Seoul, Hongkong, Taipei, Singapore, Brunei and Davao City-based WASLU LN), NEW YORK (for New York and Los Angeles-based WASLU LN), LONDON (for Den Haag, London and Frankfurt-based WASLU LN) and CAIRO (for Cairo, Jeddah, Riyadh, Kuwait and Dubai-based WASLU LN). This BIMTEK is to train members of WASLU LN (overseas-based team for supervising election) to monitor and supervise presidential election due on 8 July 2009. The question to be raised here is why BIMTEK has to be conducted while some core tasks are left untouched.
Up to this point, all WASLU LN have not yet received any budget from the BAWASLU via Pokja Pemilu Deplu RI. It is thus striking to know that the Pokja is meant to carry out the BIMTEK while they are uncertain how much budget is available for each of WASLU LN let alone when the budget is due to be released. The budget is significant to keep the wheel of WASLU LN greasy to be able to keep up with its tight schedule. One schedule deliberately left is to monitor the progress of DPT (voter registry list) which must have been done before 27 May 2009 by the time the PPLN (overseas-based committee for election) sent the DPT to KPU (national commission for election). Yet, the DPT is considered a preplanned problem in the legislative election on 9 April 2009.
The issue is then if we are uncertain about the budget why we shall spend some hundreds of millions of rupiah for BIMTEK while such principal work of supervision as monitoring the DPT is yet left without funding. That is MUBAADZIR, isn't it? Unnecessary! Please be considerate each rupiah spent belongs to people whose life is mostly uncertain of what to eat tomorrow, whose children growth is threatened due to under food and whose children go to school with bare foot.
Another question to be raised here is budget efficiency. If the BIMTEK has to be conducted, why in Sydney? As scheduled, a 15 Malaysia-based and 6 Australia-based WASLU LN will be gathered in Sydney. They are to be trained by a 5 Jakarta-based entourage. Say a return airfare Malaysia/Jakarta-Sydney costs $1,500 each passenger, a total of $30,000 is used up. While the same airfare Melbourne-Sydney is $ 300, a total of $1800 is to spend for 6 delegation. Therefore, a total of $31,800 will be wasted only for transportation.
If the BIMTEK has to be conducted overseas albeit ill-founded, Malaysia is preferable for it costs much less for transportation. A total of $9000 is needed to transport 6 delegation from Australia and another $1,500 for 5 delegation from Jakarta. This means for transportation only a total of $21,300 can be saved should the event be conducted in Malaysia than Sydney.
Meanwhile, the BIMTEK as scheduled in New York on 13-14 June 2009 is meant to train only 2 WASLU LN, one is Los Angeles and the other is New York. It will be attended by 5 delegation from Jakarta including the chair of BAWASLU. Wouldn't it be too expensive to run such an event when the aim is to train only 2 WASLU LN? Why not bringing Los Angeles-based WASLU LN to Seoul and New York-based WASLU LN to London when doing so means saving another hundreds of millions of rupiah? It is too careless to plan and schedule such international event which depletes tax-payer money without taking account of budget efficiency.
Well, it is not a typical of Indonesian bureaucrats if they cannot justify their action with some reasoning albeit groundless. For them, the BIMTEK is already on the budget plan. If the plan is not realized, the budget for such plan has to be returned to the Departemen Anggaran (the budget department of the minister of finance). Therefore, the budget has to be spent by any means despite such absurdity. Wouldn't it be wonderful if they return the budget when they know that spending the budget on some unnecessary events is deemed to be ill-judged? Wouldn't it be wonderful to argue for budget efficiency? Why spending on pointless event while the main program are left without funding?
Well ... well ... well ... reformasi reformasi! Kau telah mati suri! Reformasi may have probably worked and thrived on the domain of system and management of government, but not on the mindset of the people who run the system. Their mindset is already so occupied with the old style of Suharto regime that it is hard to brainwash them with a reformed style of thoughts though the reformasi has been running for over 10 years since Suharto regime was overthrown in 1998.
Bapak-bapak … when can our grandsons see the better Indonesia if you never show them your real action to make Indonesia better? Wouldn’t you worry much if your grandsons/daughters inherit the same Indonesia as you are managing right now? If your reply is no worries, you are unmindful then, aren't you? I believe deep inside your left heart is a truthful voice that genuinely and continuously whisper you to be mindful. That's the truth you should have listened to. That's you shouldn't be stubborn to carry out BIMTEK while other principal work are left unattended due to budget availability.
Let’s speak up ... speak out aloud for budget efficiency for our better Indonesia. We are pretty concerned about the efficiency not because we want to deal with someone business but because we know that the budget used for such international event as BIMTEK WASLU LN is funded by tax-payers like us. Therefore, it is upon public interest that we urge for budget efficiency. Good luck BAWASLU and Pokja WASLU.
Well, the story commences with BAWASLU and Pokja Waslu Deplu RI who will on 20-21 June 2009 carry out BIMTEK (a short training) on presidential election supervision in Sydney for Sydney, Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Kinabalu, Kuching and Johor Baru-based WASLU LN. Other BIMTEK will also be conducted in four cities, i.e. SEOUL (for Tokyo, Seoul, Hongkong, Taipei, Singapore, Brunei and Davao City-based WASLU LN), NEW YORK (for New York and Los Angeles-based WASLU LN), LONDON (for Den Haag, London and Frankfurt-based WASLU LN) and CAIRO (for Cairo, Jeddah, Riyadh, Kuwait and Dubai-based WASLU LN). This BIMTEK is to train members of WASLU LN (overseas-based team for supervising election) to monitor and supervise presidential election due on 8 July 2009. The question to be raised here is why BIMTEK has to be conducted while some core tasks are left untouched.
Up to this point, all WASLU LN have not yet received any budget from the BAWASLU via Pokja Pemilu Deplu RI. It is thus striking to know that the Pokja is meant to carry out the BIMTEK while they are uncertain how much budget is available for each of WASLU LN let alone when the budget is due to be released. The budget is significant to keep the wheel of WASLU LN greasy to be able to keep up with its tight schedule. One schedule deliberately left is to monitor the progress of DPT (voter registry list) which must have been done before 27 May 2009 by the time the PPLN (overseas-based committee for election) sent the DPT to KPU (national commission for election). Yet, the DPT is considered a preplanned problem in the legislative election on 9 April 2009.
The issue is then if we are uncertain about the budget why we shall spend some hundreds of millions of rupiah for BIMTEK while such principal work of supervision as monitoring the DPT is yet left without funding. That is MUBAADZIR, isn't it? Unnecessary! Please be considerate each rupiah spent belongs to people whose life is mostly uncertain of what to eat tomorrow, whose children growth is threatened due to under food and whose children go to school with bare foot.
Another question to be raised here is budget efficiency. If the BIMTEK has to be conducted, why in Sydney? As scheduled, a 15 Malaysia-based and 6 Australia-based WASLU LN will be gathered in Sydney. They are to be trained by a 5 Jakarta-based entourage. Say a return airfare Malaysia/Jakarta-Sydney costs $1,500 each passenger, a total of $30,000 is used up. While the same airfare Melbourne-Sydney is $ 300, a total of $1800 is to spend for 6 delegation. Therefore, a total of $31,800 will be wasted only for transportation.
If the BIMTEK has to be conducted overseas albeit ill-founded, Malaysia is preferable for it costs much less for transportation. A total of $9000 is needed to transport 6 delegation from Australia and another $1,500 for 5 delegation from Jakarta. This means for transportation only a total of $21,300 can be saved should the event be conducted in Malaysia than Sydney.
Meanwhile, the BIMTEK as scheduled in New York on 13-14 June 2009 is meant to train only 2 WASLU LN, one is Los Angeles and the other is New York. It will be attended by 5 delegation from Jakarta including the chair of BAWASLU. Wouldn't it be too expensive to run such an event when the aim is to train only 2 WASLU LN? Why not bringing Los Angeles-based WASLU LN to Seoul and New York-based WASLU LN to London when doing so means saving another hundreds of millions of rupiah? It is too careless to plan and schedule such international event which depletes tax-payer money without taking account of budget efficiency.
Well, it is not a typical of Indonesian bureaucrats if they cannot justify their action with some reasoning albeit groundless. For them, the BIMTEK is already on the budget plan. If the plan is not realized, the budget for such plan has to be returned to the Departemen Anggaran (the budget department of the minister of finance). Therefore, the budget has to be spent by any means despite such absurdity. Wouldn't it be wonderful if they return the budget when they know that spending the budget on some unnecessary events is deemed to be ill-judged? Wouldn't it be wonderful to argue for budget efficiency? Why spending on pointless event while the main program are left without funding?
Well ... well ... well ... reformasi reformasi! Kau telah mati suri! Reformasi may have probably worked and thrived on the domain of system and management of government, but not on the mindset of the people who run the system. Their mindset is already so occupied with the old style of Suharto regime that it is hard to brainwash them with a reformed style of thoughts though the reformasi has been running for over 10 years since Suharto regime was overthrown in 1998.
Bapak-bapak … when can our grandsons see the better Indonesia if you never show them your real action to make Indonesia better? Wouldn’t you worry much if your grandsons/daughters inherit the same Indonesia as you are managing right now? If your reply is no worries, you are unmindful then, aren't you? I believe deep inside your left heart is a truthful voice that genuinely and continuously whisper you to be mindful. That's the truth you should have listened to. That's you shouldn't be stubborn to carry out BIMTEK while other principal work are left unattended due to budget availability.
Let’s speak up ... speak out aloud for budget efficiency for our better Indonesia. We are pretty concerned about the efficiency not because we want to deal with someone business but because we know that the budget used for such international event as BIMTEK WASLU LN is funded by tax-payers like us. Therefore, it is upon public interest that we urge for budget efficiency. Good luck BAWASLU and Pokja WASLU.