The visit from local governments in Central Java Province was welcomed by the Vice-Rector for Planning, Partnership, Business, and Information Affairs UNS Prof. Sajidan, Dean of FISIP UNS Prof. Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni, and the Head of Master Program in Communication Science Postgraduate School UNS Dr. Andre N. Rahmanto.

In his opening remark before opening the assessment, Prof. Sajidan stated that information disclosure in the reformation era is a need and responsibility for state administrators because people want to be involved in every policy-making process and demand accountable and transparent government according to the good governance principles.

“Moreover, the modernization of Information Technology and communication that provides freedom for people to get any information they want easily and rapidly,” he stated.

Therefore, Prof. Sajidan considers that government, institutes, and public agencies need to open themselves to the community and provide information surrounding their policies openly and accessible for people. Although, on the one hand, information openness is often abused for certain interests, Prof. Sajidan stated that technology modernization should be used as a momentum for the government to take strategic policies.

“This mandate encourages all public agencies in Indonesia, including public universities, to apply public information disclosure. This is an implementation of Law No. 14/ 2008 on Public Information Disclosure,” Prof. Sajidan explained.

The Commissioner of Provincial Information Commission (KIP) of Central Java Province, Ermy Sri Ardhyanti, explained in her speech that the assessment was held to provide a transparent perspective on public information for the community. In the two-days assessment, 15 districts/municipalities, 14 public hospitals at district/municipality and province/central region, and 29 provincial units at Central Java Province will be examined. KIP of Central Java will assess and classify the local government or public agencies into informative, moving to informative, quite informative, lack of informativeness, and not informative. Ermy Sri Ardhyanti mentioned that this public assessment had been held since 2014, and she hoped that this assessment could improve information transparency management by all local governments and public agencies in Central Java Province.

“Fifty-eight public agencies have passed the selection process wince May 2021. Including website check and social media managed (by the agencies). This public assessment is the fourth stage, and those who participate in this assessment are public agencies with a score higher than 80,” Ermy explained. Humas UNS

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On the Wednesday night event (21/7/2021), Prof. Wimboh states that “Specifically for OJK, including associations, we have registered numerous companies to its respective affiliated bank to be reported to get vaccines allocation from the Minister of Health, and finally get reported to the President.”

Even though, the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that Indonesia can only reach herd immunity in 2022. However, Prof. Wimboh states that the President of RI Joko Widodo is determined to reach herd immunity in 2021. This can be achieved through collaborative Covid-19 vaccination like the one conducted by TNI and Polri. “The President wishes to speed up the distribution of 1.5-2 million vaccines through various channels. It will be difficult for the government to achieve this alone. Currently, it is difficult to distribute the vaccines to the community. Hence, the government synergizes all aspects of the stakeholders and regional government,” Prof. Wimboh states.

This became a special challenge for the government, this was aggravated with the challenge in Covid-19 handling. On the other hand, the average vaccination rate and the vaccination speed across Indonesia are uneven. Moreover, the 208.3 vaccination target can only be achieved if the daily vaccination rate reaches 1.4 million doses daily. “The synergy at all levels of community is needed, starting from the university, essential economics sectors, critical economic sector, and non-essential economics sector. Universities are welcomed, the link to get vaccines is no longer a difficult matter, as long as you have an identification card, you can organize a collective vaccination and get free vaccine allocation,” he concluded.

In front of the Rector of UNS, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho, Chairman of IKA UNS Ir. Budi Harto, and the other attending participants, Prof. Wimboh reminded the participants that to achieve herd immunity, they must strengthen body immunity by exercising regularly, consuming healthy food, and vitamins. All those efforts must be completed by implementing strict health protocols, wearing masks, washing hands, and avoiding crowds. Prof. Wimboh adds that the community and companies should understand the importance of 3T, namely, tracing, testing, and treatment. The three items are the keys to reducing the SARS-CoV-2 transmissions, which recently soaring drastically.

“This is why the government will go all out to the point of establishing emergency hospitals. All institutions, communities, and entrepreneurs must follow the tracing mechanism when they tested positive for Covid-1. This protocol is the most people forget. In OJK, all staff is PCR tested. If there are any staff whose test returned a positive result, they must undergo self-isolation, and their current dirrect contact will be tracked,” Prof. Wimboh added. Humas UNS

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