Bappenas should be dissolved

Bappenas should be dissolved

From Republika

I would like to put a question to the President, who is also a
populist economist: When will the National Development Planning
Board (Bappenas), which follows the New Order regime's top-down
economic development pattern, be dissolved?

The pattern has produced a handful of multinational
corporations, while at the same time impoverishing urban and
rural communities.

After its dissolution, the government should set up an
economic inspectorate with the following main duties:
- Controlling the operation of foreign and domestic investors so
as to prevent them from disrupting local economies, let alone
impoverishing local populations.
- Controlling local governments' economic policies so as to
prevent them going down the path of free market competition. They
should instead boost cooperation and mutual assistance in the
local and national interest
- Performing other functions that are important for the upholding
of the people's sovereignty in the economic sector.

IKRANAGARA
Washington DC, U.S.