Home Affairs Minister Muhammad Tito Karnavian, here on Wednesday, spoke of his intent to deploy several teams to monitor local governments that were inaccessible and considered less innovative.

Karnavian deemed this step as important after reviewing the regional innovation index assessment results.

“I will send several teams comprising representatives from the Home Affairs Ministry’s Directorate General of Regional Autonomy, Research and Development Agency (BPP), and Inspectorate General,” he noted during the 2021 Innovative Government Award (IGA).

The event was held both online and offline at the Sasana Bhakti Praja Building at the ministry’s headquarters, Jakarta.

The team will identify problems faced by each region and find solutions to them.

“We will establish several teams according to the number of the regions, as we want to understand the problems,” the minister affirmed.

Karnavian emphasized that the keys to the success of regional autonomy are leadership as well as the ability of regional heads to create breakthroughs and innovations for the welfare of the community.

Hence, he expressed concern over regions that were less innovative or could not be assessed.

At the 2021 IGA event, it was mentioned that 166 local governments were considered less innovative, while 23 other regions were viewed as being inaccessible, though the figure had decreased, reaching 50 regions in 2020.

Hence, Karnavian urged regional heads to continue to innovate and to explore the region’s potentials to boost the people’s prosperity.

Meanwhile, the regional innovation index had been validated by the ministry’s BPP.

In addition, the quality of the index has been assured by the Special Working Unit for Community Services (UKKPPM) on Scientific Modeling, Application, Research, and Training for City-Centered Innovation and Technology (SMART CITY) of the University of Indonesia.

Source: Antara News