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To do so, we need to develop the legislative infrastructure which serve as the basis of
parliamentary openness. Thus, several laws were adopted. Among the few are: Law on
parliament providing the legal basis for public engagement and parliamentary openness, Law
on Electronic Information and Transaction as a basis for technology use as well as Law on
Public Information to guarantee public access to information.

The Indonesian House of Representatives has adopted a new vision of a modern parliament.
A parliament that is transparent, technologically available and representative. This is in line
with the spirit brought by the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness which was launched by
multilateral stakeholders at the IPU World E-Parliament Conference in Rome, Italy, 2012.

The Declaration promotes principles on parliamentary openness as follows: (i) promoting
a culture of openness; (ii) making parliamentary information transparent; (iii) easing access
to parliamentary information; (iv) enabling electronic communication of parliamentary
information.

In this valuable opportunity, It is a privilege for me to inform you that the Indonesian House
of Representatives has submitted an independent national action plan on parliamentary
openness to the OGP in September 2018. The action plan, which was developed under the
umbrella principles of the OGP, including co-creation with the civil society, encompasses five
commitments as follows: (i) improvement of data and legislative information services; (ii)
utilization of parliamentary information technology; (iii) promotion of public information
transparency; (iv) development of open parliament road map; and, (v) institutionalization of
the Open Parliament in the House.

These commitments were developed based on inputs by civil society and working with them
is a necessity in the development of Open Parliament. We cannot do it alone. We need more
perspectives and we need some others institutions to do check and balance to our openness and
transparency.

All of these commitments were also in line with efforts we are implementing towards a modern
parliament.

We are currently working to gradually make parliamentary information more transparent
through the development of Legislative Information System (SILEG) which will monitor all
the bills tabled in the house with their records of minutes, hansard, decisions, and others. It
will by itself covers the issue of proactive disclosure of public information and support the
commitment no 1,2, and 3.

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