Asia and the Pacific

In this section of the OGP newsletter, we feature open government champions both from government and civil society, and ask them about their OGP experiences. Here is what they have to say:  How does open government make a difference in…

Tuesday Sept. 30 marked the last day of Indonesia as the lead chair of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) movement. Mexico assumed this role starting on Oct. 1. Some of us were together in New York last Wednesday to celebrate…

1998 was the year when Indonesia started to question their identity by deconstructing their past to the future. Taking parallels to the Greek mythology, a literal Pandora box had been unleashed along the process. People in Indonesia have witnessed how…

It was 35 °C outside, yet Fauzan Helmi Sudaryanto traveled all the way from University of Indonesia at Depok, West Java to Open Government Indonesia Secretariat located at Central Jakarta. He was invited to deliver a presentation about Jakarta Flood…

Photo: Open Government Indonesia Secretariat team and interns The Open Government Indonesia team is running a structured program which introduces open government to youth through an internship program. The main concept of the program is to educate these youth about open government in…

Indonesia has released its new 2014-2015 open government action plans. Since Indonesia had already undertaken a second round of action plans in 2013, this 2014-2015 action plans is the third wave of our action plans since OGP’s launching in 2011.…

About 850 km away from Jakarta, a small regency in Riau Province, in the island of Sumatra, is making big step forward implementing Indonesia Public Information Disclosure Act (UU KIP). Indragiri Hulu regency is home to about 363 thousand of…

Indoblog.jpg As one of the eight founding members of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in 2011, Indonesia was appointed to the chairmanship in 2014.This was just one step, though, in the evolution of OGP in Indonesia. The first step in…