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Secretary-General M. Guntur Hamzah speaking at the "A 6-Year Reflection on Law Number 30 of 2014: Assessing the Quality of Public Services and Bureaucratic Reform in Indonesia" organized by the State Administrative Law Student Association of the Law Faculty of Andalas University, Saturday (17/10/2020). Photo by Humas MK/Panji.

JAKARTA, Public Relations of the Constitutional Court—Law No. 30 of 2014 on State Administration was created to simplify bureaucracy for various public services, said Secretary-General of the Constitutional Court M. Guntur Hamzah at a webinar on "A 6-Year Reflection on Law Number 30 of 2014: Assessing the Quality of Public Services and Bureaucratic Reform in Indonesia" organized by the State Administrative Law Student Association of the Law Faculty of Andalas University (FH Unand), Saturday, October 17, 2020.

Talking about "State Administration Law and Public Services in the Constitutional Court," Guntur explained that the initial idea of the State Administration Law actually included various laws that are materially related. These norms were packaged in one in order to create orderly administration in providing fast services for good governance.

He then said that the Constitutional Court has also implemented the law for good governance, which is in line with the Court’s mission to be a modern judicial body. To this end, the Court not only adopt technology to improve public services, but also made mindset changes to improve administrative management.

Guntur added that ICT (information, communication, technology) advances at the Court had saved time and improve accuracy, which led to improved performance. The Court also holds on to the principles of cleanliness and trustworthiness to realize efficient, effective, transparent, and accountable process that is free from corruption, collusion, and nepotism.

“At the Constitutional Court, intention, mindset, and the environment must be clean, and the work is guided by clean methods,” he said before FH Unand’s Dean Busyra Azheri, Head of FH Unand’s State Administrative Law Department Gusminarti, the Head of Gadjah Mada University’s Center for Anti-Corruption Studies Oce Madril, as well as FH Unand faculty members and students.

Interagency Synergy

Guntur said that the Constitutional Court applies “five Is to judicial power”: independence, integrity, impartiality, integration, and interconnection. Through the combination of the characteristics of modern judiciary and the philosophy in the State Administration Law, the Court found official aids, which is hard to understand as it is closely related to misunderstanding about gratification. Moreover, the law intended that state agencies can ask and offer aids according to their capacity for improving agency performance. However, if these official aids are abused, the agencies could be entering bribery territory.

“Therefore, in order to anticipate all that, the Constitutional Court upholds the principles of integrity, cleanliness, and trustworthiness as well as synergizes with other agencies in order to improve public services,” the professor of the Law Faculty of Hasanuddin University said.

In addition, the Court has been using electronic documents, which are also regulated in the State Administration Law. The norm has given such documents of state agencies legality, not unlike official documents. In the Constitutional Court, physical and electronic documents have been complementing one another. The Dynamic Archival Information System (SIKD) is a manifestation of this.

"I hope that the spirit of the State Administration Law can be adopted by many parties so that e-government can be carried out digitally and online, both by organizations, universities, and institutions so that effective and transparent governance can be realized in the era of digital transformation such as that carried out by the Constitutional Court," said Guntur.

Law No. 30 of 2014 on State Administration was passed on October 17, 2014. It was created for orderly state administration in order to improve the quality of government services. The product of the state administration is the State Administration Decree (KTUN) that contains attribution, mandate, and delegation. With this regulation, it is hoped that bureaucratic violations due to slow and complicated process of public services can be minimized so that good governance can be realized through a clean, responsive, community-friendly government. 

Writer: Sri Pujianti
Editor: Lulu Anjarsari
Translator: Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

Translation uploaded on 10/23/2020 23:04 WIB

Disclaimer: The original version of the news is in Indonesian. In case of any differences between the English and the Indonesian version, the Indonesian version will prevail.

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