Antara News, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 00:13 WIB
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Finance Minister Sri Mulyani said reform efforts currently being carried out in her ministry were aimed at increasing public confidence.
"I wish people would say `this is an institution I trust` when they see it. As simple as that," she said at the launch of "2009 Corruption Perception Index" at Hotel Atlet Century here on Tuesday.
Mulyani said the finance ministry was one of the institutions that had so far been frequently suspected as the most corrupt so that the public had lost its confidence in it.
In view of that, she said, the finance ministry felt it was necessary to make a mechanism with regard to public-related decision-making.
"Corruption is a conflict of interest so that it has to be fought together," she said.
She said corruption may be classified into an upstream corruption that happens in the institution and a downstream corruption that happens outside the institution.
She said different ways would be needed to fight them.
She said to prevent upstream corruption a standard operation procedures would be needed as reference for decision-making.
"Every official must be able to explain the policy he/she produces in line with the standard operation procedure transparently before the public," she said.
To deal with downstream corruption she said the finance ministry needed to cooperate with external institutions such as the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the people.
"The KPK`s action so far had been quite a shock therapy which is good although it was actually not good if an external institution needed to do it," she said.
She said the finance ministry`s goal was maintaining and developing public confidence to reduce public suspicion towards the institution.
From 2006 to 2009, she said, the finance ministry had given sanctions to 1961 employees connected with corruption.
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