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The Omnibus Law on state-owned enterprises (SOEs) can improve the performance of state companies, observer for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) from the University of Indonesia Toto Pranoto stated.

"With a simpler rule, SOEs compliance can be improved. This means that the supervisory function can be carried out more easily. Thus, it is hoped that the performance of SOEs will be even better," Pranoto noted when contacted here on Friday.

He remarked that during the two decades of establishment of the SOEs Ministry, it is likely that around 45 SOE Ministerial Regulations were issued. Some of the rules are overlapping and some are no longer relevant.

"The idea of the SOEs Omnibus Law is to simplify the rules. Hence, it needs simplification. This is good for enforcing the rules themselves," he said.

The SOEs Omnibus Law policy will simplify 45 ministerial regulations to only three ministerial regulations.

The simplification of rules through the omnibus law is part of the accelerated transformation being conducted by SOEs.

The omnibus law is one of the four big agendas of the SOEs Ministry in 2023. The other three big agendas include preparation of the Blacklist by collaborating with the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP).

The next agendas comprise preparing the 2024-2034 Blueprint and reviewing the performance of pension funds in each SOEs.

Meanwhile, SOEs Minister Erick Thohir remains committed to simplifying bureaucracy within the ministry and SOEs.

After conducting organizational arrangements, the minister is currently making efforts to organize legal products through the simplification of SOE Ministerial Regulations, from 45 Ministerial Regulations to three.

Thohir said the large number of SOEs Ministerial Regulations had been ongoing for a long time since 1998.

He doubted the effectiveness of these regulations on the implementation of SOEs in the field. With only three ministerial regulations, he thinks it will be easier for directors to understand and implement them. (antaranews)

The ACICIS Journalism Professional Practicum intern program which is a consortium of several universities in Australia, the Australian Embassy in Jakarta in collaboration with universities in Indonesia and several institutions in Indonesia, can strengthen bilateral cooperation between Indonesia and Australia in the field of education.

This was conveyed by Adrian M. Budiman, Resident Director of the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS) to Voice of Indonesia in Jakarta, Tuesday (03/01/2023).

Adrian said the aim of the ACICIS program was to provide vocational experience to students at ACICIS member universities and was an investment into the future in the bilateral relationship between Australia and Indonesia.

"Its mission is to strengthen bilateral relations between Indonesia and Australia. ACICIS is one of the mechanisms which is done through education," said Adrian Budiman in a release received by Voice of Indonesia News.

Adrian M. Budiman further said that the journalism internship program was firstly organized in 2008. At first, ACICIS only organized a program, namely journalism, but later it was expanded into 7 programs namely agriculture, business, design, journalism, tourism, and law, along with the increasing interest of foreign students to undertake apprenticeship programs in other countries.
For 2023, there are 90 Australian students participating in the ACICIS program.

Three of them, namely Luca Pearce, Zak Wheeler and Gera Kazakov will take part in the internship program at RRI Voice of Indonesia from 16 January to 10 February 2023. (VOI/AHM) 

Three students from Australia: Luca Pearce, Zak Wheeler, and Gera Kazakov will take part in the ACICIS Journalism Professional Practicum (JPP) internship program at RRI Voice of Indonesia from 16 January to 10 February 2023. To Voice of Indonesia in Jakarta, Tuesday (03/ 01/2023) Luca Pearce, a student majoring in Journalism at the University of Technology Sydney expressed her interest in multimedia journalism and expressed her hopes for this internship program.

"I'm expecting to learn to improve my intercultural communication, learn more about Indonesian culture and also learn how a radio station works like day-to-day life," Luca Pearce said in a release received by Voice of Indonesia News on Wednesday.

Gera Kazakov, a double major student in both Journalism and International Relations at Curtin University, in Perth, Western Australia, also hopes that he can learn about Indonesian culture, while Zak Wheeler, a student majoring in journalism from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) said he wants to experience the daily life of the local people and socialize with them.

Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies-ACICIS is a non-profit consortium involving leading universities in Australia that have study programs in Indonesia. The Journalism Professional Practicum (JPP) intern program has been held since 2008 and attracts many students from Australia to gain experience working in Indonesia as well as knowing more about Indonesian culture. (VOI/AHM)

Indonesia’s state budget deficit in 2022 reached just 2.85 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), lower than the 4.50 percent target set in the revised state budget, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati informed on Tuesday.

"The 2022 state budget deficit was recorded at Rp464.3 trillion, down 40.1 percent compared to last year's deficit of Rp775.1 trillion. This shows a great fiscal consolidation. When compared to GDP, it is only 2.38 percent of the GDP," Indrawati said at a press conference, which was followed from here on Tuesday.

Temporary state revenue realization reached Rp2,626.4 trillion, or 115.9 percent of the Rp2,266.2 trillion target outlined in Presidential Regulation Number 98 of 2022 regarding the 2022 state budget revision. The figure reflected a growth of 30.6 percent compared to 2021.

State revenue was supported by tax revenue, which reached Rp2,034.5 trillion, or 114.0 percent of the Rp1,784.0 trillion target, and showed an increase of 31.4 percent from tax revenue of Rp1,278.6 trillion recorded in 2021.

Moreover, non-tax state revenue (PNBP) reached Rp588.3 trillion, or 122.2 percent of the Rp481.6 trillion target. The 2022 PNBP reflected a growth of 28.3 percent from Rp458.5 trillion the previous year.

"The performance of state revenues, whether it is taxes, customs, and non-tax revenues, has been outstanding for two consecutive years. When the economy improves, we will also begin to improve all state revenues," the minister informed.

She said that state revenues, which were boosted by rising commodity prices that included national leading export commodities, were used to protect the society and the economy.

State spending in 2022 was recorded at Rp3,090.8 trillion, or 99.5 percent of the Rp3,106.4 trillion target set in the presidential regulation.

The spending consisted of ministry and institution spending of Rp1,079.3 trillion, or 114.1 percent of the Rp945.8 trillion target; and spending on others of Rp1,195.2 trillion, or 88.2 percent of the target.

"Non-ministry or institutional spending includes energy subsidies and very large compensation, which we explained when the fuel price went up," Minister Indrawati said.

The quantum of energy subsidies and compensation provided in 2022 reached Rp551.2 trillion, or 109.7 percent of the Rp502.4 trillion target. Initially, the target for energy subsidies and compensation was only Rp152.5 trillion. (Antaranews)