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Furthermore, GOPAC is currently working with the Open Government Partnership (OGP) and
the network of Legislative Openness Working Group to encourage parliament becoming more
open, transparent, accountable and inclusive. Recently, on 29 August 2018 the Indonesian House
of Representatives declared its commitment as the first country in Asia to implement the Open
Parliament initiative. We work with civil society and the executive branch of OGP national
secretariat which consists of the Presidential Office, Ministry of Development Planning, and
Ministry of Foreign Affairs to develop the Open Parliament Action Plan which is comprised of
5 commitments:
i) Enhancing services that provide data and information about governance and legislation.
One of the initial products is a mobile apps called “DPR Now” as a technological
instrument in supporting parliamentary openness;
ii) Strengthening the use of parliament information technology;
iii) Reinforcing the parliamentary openness and public information;
iv) Developing the Open Parliament roadmap; and
v) Institutional arrangement of Open Parliament Indonesia

Furthermore, this initiative will enable society to monitor the legislative process, especially
in enhancing citizen participation in every legislative process and bringing MPs closer to the
people they represent. As such, it will ensure the publication of minutes and summaries of a
number of meetings and detail the stages of policies the parliament is discussing. That way, the
citizen will be aware of all the policy-making processes and will be able to provide their input
as well as get involved in the de-bottlenecking process. Moreover, the citizen will have the
opportunity to propose new appropriate policies.

Deriving from our successful effort to foster strategic partnership between the Indonesian House
of Representatives, government, and civil society; GOPAC is eager to collaborate further to
actively support and encourage parliaments in other country in replicating the open parliament
initiative. With the focus on opening parliament, I believe we could achieve our common goals
of a more transparent, accountable, and ensure citizen participation to combat corruption.

As a final message, I would like to reiterate that we do have great challenges which can only
be solved by working together. Hence, we should strengthen the anti-corruption movement by
taking great opportunities to collaborate and work towards the same goals with the same level
of ambition.

302 I Selected Speeches of the Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia