Kotabaru establishes anti-maladministration village

Kotabaru, South Kalimantan (ANTARA) - The Kotabaru District Inspectorate Agency together with the Ombusman of the Republic of Indonesia Representative for South Kalimantan signed a joint commitment to the establishment of an anti-maladministration village and the fulfillment of village public services.

"The Kotabaru District Government welcomes and appreciates the plan to form an anti-maladministration village and efforts to fulfill village public services in Kotabaru," the Kotabaru Assistant for Government and People's Welfare Minggu Masuki said here as reported on Thursday.

He said, service supervision is the implementation of democratic principles that should be developed and applied to prevent maladministration (acts against the law, exceeding the authority given).

Whereas in some areas, he acknowledged, the administration is still characterized by maladministration practices, corruption, collusion and nepotism.

Thus, joint efforts and commitment are needed to realize an effective, efficient, honest, clean and open state administration in order to obtain good and fair public services in improving the welfare of the people.

"All government working units (SKPD), heads of subdistricts, heads of villages should pay attention and listen carefully to this," he pointed out.

Head of Kotabaru Inspectorate Agency Ahmad Fitriadi Fazriannoor said the establishment of an anti-maladministration village is the first in Indonesia. If successful, then it will become a pilot project.

"Therefore, together with the Ombusman, we have high hopes for the village heads to be able to make the results of this activity a success," he said.

The Kotabaru Government and the Ombusman hope that each sub-district to establish an anti-maladministration village project, so that in 22 sub-districts there are 22 anti-maladministration villages.

If this is realized, it is one of the joint efforts to bring order to the village administration, as well as to improve public services.


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