Highlights of Sutiyoso's accountability speech of 2001 Budget: * The economic growth was 3.64 percent, lower than 2000's figure (3.98 percent) because of political and security conditions. * The Gross Regional Domestic Product per capita increased from Rp 22.43 million in 2000 to Rp 25.87 million in 2001. * The inflation rate in 2001 reached 11.52 percent, higher than 2000 (10.29 percent). * Public order operations were conducted with the help of the police and civil guards, targeting street vendors, people with social and community problems (including beggars, homeless people, prostitutes and street children), in addition to pedicab (becak) drivers and squatters.
These operations often sparked protests, and the victims complained to the National Commission of Human Rights, the House of Representatives, the City Council, the City Governor, and even the Central Jakarta District Court.
The court declared that the administration had unlawfully conducted the operations because they were held without proper procedures. * There was a significant revenue increase in the 2001 budget (which used the balanced system, meaning revenue was the same as expenditures), which was Rp 9.09 trillion. The 1999/2000 budget was Rp 4.17 trillion. * Cutting the bureaucracy for the processing of the application of both local and foreign investors, and developing small businesses. * In 2001, the City Inspectorate (now called the City Audit Agency) received 283 complaints, including 87 KKN (corruption, collusion and nepotism) cases. Fifty-nine KKN cases were proven in court, causing the city Rp 1.5 billion in losses.
A total of 91 employees received administrative sanctions.
What Sutiyoso failed to mention, however, was the fact that not one of them was ever prosecuted. * Two bylaws were passed to support the implementation of regional autonomy: Bylaw No. 3/2001 on Organization and Working System of the City Administration; and Bylaw No. 8/2001 on Basic Principles of Regional Finance Management. * The subdistrict Community Empowerment Program was launched in 2001 in 25 subdistricts - each of the subdistricts received Rp 2 billion.
Sutiyoso admitted that it did not run well because the subdistricts failed to organize the community, but added it was understandable, because the program was new. * The year 2001 saw an improvement in public service, compared with 2000, even though there were still many complaints from people about the lack of transparency, bureaucracy, and illegal levies.
The public service included the process of the building license applications and ID card applications; as well as health service, and funeral service.
The health service sector has improved, as seen in the life expectancy that increased from 71.35 in 2000 to 71.9 in 2001; infant mortality rates, meantime, decreased from 28 to 26 per 1,000 births. Maternal mortality rates remained steady at 2 per 1,000 births, the same as the rate in 2000. * The 35 city firms contributed Rp 34.99 billion, while the target was Rp 35.78 billion. Eight of them could not reach the target, while three failed to contribute anything. * The city constructed 37 new parks, planted 3.5 million trees and renovated the Monas park along with other projects beautifying the city.
But in the long term, Sutiyoso acknowledged, it would take a decade or two to turn Jakarta into a green city.