Guidelines set for Repelita VI

Guidelines set for Repelita VI

JAKARTA (JP): The government decided yesterday that the annual targets of the current sixth Five Year Plan will provide the basic guidelines for the planning of development projects.

Information Minister Harmoko told reporters after a limited cabinet meeting on the coordination of development supervision yesterday that only development projects which were linked with or supported the annual targets of the Plan could be proposed to the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas).

"Using the annual targets as the basic guidelines for development projects will improve the supervision of development operations as the supervision can be carried out from the planning process down," Harmoko said.

Establishing the annual targets of the development plan would not only facilitate supervision activities, but would also ensure that the development projects were carried out according to the existing plans, the information minister added.

Harmoko said the meeting had concluded that development supervision during the 1994/1995 fiscal year, which ends on March 31, had improved in terms of both quality and quantity.

Public participation in the development process had also improved, the minister said, citing an increase in the number of complaint letters sent to Post Office Box 5000, which was installed at the Vice President's office to receive public complaints, particularly in relation to corruption.

The post office box has received at least 108,259 letters, or an average of 50 letters per day, since it was opened on 15 April 1988, he said. He added that all of the letters were passed on to related government offices.

The minister, however, said that around 43 percent of the letters contained false information and only 31 percent were true, while the information contained in the remainder was still being assessed. (hen)