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Ten supervisory boards in ASEAN established an organization namely ASEANSAI in Bali in 2011. It was aimed to increase transparancy and accountability in the governments and public institutions in Southeast Asia. During his speech on Asean, Aseansai, AIPA joint seminar, in Jakarta on Tuesday (Feb 26), the Indonesian Vice President, Jusuf Kalla mentioned that the cooperation in the form of auditing is important to give transparency system and accountability for each countries. 

“The cooperation in the form of auditing is important to provide us a system of transparency and also economic accountability of each country, openly. We want ASEAN to cooperate fairly. The aim is to advance these regional countries in various fields. Therefore, I would like to express my appreciation to the BPK and invite all supreme audits of all countries to jointly establish a close relationship, so that they can bring something beneficial for a good governance,” said Jusuf Kalla.

Related to this, the whole ASEAN institutes in cooperation with ASEAN Secretariat strengthen the importance of good governance promotion which is the most important element in the ASEAN Vision 2025 "Moving Forward Together". The joint seminar of ASEAN, ASEANSAI, AIPA is participated in by 100 senior staffs and representatives of three organizations as well as other entities in ASEAN. This program is also supported by the German government through several projects such as ASEC 2025, SUPPORT TO ASEANSAI and AIPA for ASEAN, that will be implemented by the German company for International Cooperation-GIZ. (VOI/NK/DP)