JAKARTA - President-elect Joko Widodo prepare special tips to save travel expenses of government. According to Deputy Transition Team Jokowi-Kalla, Hasto Kristiyanto, Jokowi 330 will integrate online media for blusukan program online or e-blusukan.
"Kan later, through online media, we know all about the developments in society, they could be considered news," said Hasto, last weekend.
In the Draft State Budget 2015, the domestic official travel expenditures budgeted around Rp 35,196 trillion abroad and shopping trips around Rp 2,786 trillion. If later passed the House, the official travel budget increase compared to 2014, which allocates budget travel within the country around Rp 34,330 trillion abroad and shopping trips around Rp 2,592 trillion. That figure is higher than the 2015 budget ceilings for new government programs Jokowi that is not up to Rp 25 trillion.
According Hasto, for this business travel budgets are too big. Supposedly the budget could be diverted to productive sectors, such as infrastructure development; irrigation canals; financing micro, small, and medium enterprises (SMEs); as well as production equipment for fishermen. Jokowi government, he said, would streamline business travel budgets to be allocated to the program based on the people's welfare. But about the amount, he did not want to reveal. "We are still in the simulation and it took a lot of confirmation," said Hasto.
Observers informatics technology Onno Widodo Purbo doubt the concept of e-blusukan by integrating online media 330 can save business travel budgets. The reason, he said, the program has no correlation. Supposedly, he said, an effort to cut travel budgets by leveraging Internet technology is to hold online meetings between Jokowi and government officials at central and regional levels. Technologies that support it such as Skype, mailing lists, and social networking. "It actually saves effective business travel budgets," he said. FAIZ NASHRILLAH
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