Indonesian Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring and South Korean Security and Public Administration Minister Yoo Jeong Bok signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on e-government cooperation in the presence of Vice President Boediono here earlier this month, the Chief of the Information Center and Public Relations Service at the Indonesian Ministry of Communications and Information, Gatot S. Dewa Broto said.
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Indonesian Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring and South Korean Security and Public Administration Minister Yoo Jeong Bok signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on e-government cooperation in the presence of Vice President Boediono here on Thursday, the chief of the information center and public relations service at the Indonesian ministry of communications and information, Gatot S. Dewa Broto said.
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The Open Government Partnership is a multilateral initiative that aims to secure concrete commitments from governments around the world to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption and harness new technologies to strengthen governance.
The initiative is in a bid to curb the epidemic of building permit violations that have spread across the city’s five municipalities, said P2B Head I Putu Ngurah Indiana.
Developers and building owners have the tendency to avoid applying for a building permit properly due to its difficult and slow process they have to go through, he said.
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“By the middle of this year, all the e-ID cards must be distributed to all eligible residents so that the electronic data can be used for the upcoming 2014 elections,” said Minister of Home Affairs Gamawan Fauzi.
He accepted that the government exceeded its 2012 targets for the e-ID card project with this progress.