PROJECT HEADS MUST BE QUALIFIED: BAPPENAS
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The director of the National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) has stressed the need for the leaders of government-funded projects to possess procurement and project leadership certificates.
In a speech to a provincial development planning forum in Banten on Wednesday, Bappenas director Paskah Suzetta stressed the importance of certification to prevent incompetent officials being assigned to lead government projects.
He was quoted by Antara as saying that the certification process, which commenced in 2005, was intended to ensure the competence of project leaders, which, in turn, would help accelerate project execution and improve compliance with the law.
Meanwhile, the Bappenas director of regional affairs, A. Rudiyanto, expressed concern about the poor performance of officials charged with heading up government projects. For example, he said, out of 100,000 regency and municipal officials from throughout the country, only 12 percent, or 12,000, had passed the recent procurement and project leadership examinations.
However, he added, those who failed could retake the examinations after receiving additional training.
"We need more than 7,040 project leaders for the country's 440 regencies and municipalities," he said.
He added that the test papers had been set by a Bappenas team in collaboration with a number of universities.
The director of the National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) has stressed the need for the leaders of government-funded projects to possess procurement and project leadership certificates.
In a speech to a provincial development planning forum in Banten on Wednesday, Bappenas director Paskah Suzetta stressed the importance of certification to prevent incompetent officials being assigned to lead government projects.
He was quoted by Antara as saying that the certification process, which commenced in 2005, was intended to ensure the competence of project leaders, which, in turn, would help accelerate project execution and improve compliance with the law.
Meanwhile, the Bappenas director of regional affairs, A. Rudiyanto, expressed concern about the poor performance of officials charged with heading up government projects. For example, he said, out of 100,000 regency and municipal officials from throughout the country, only 12 percent, or 12,000, had passed the recent procurement and project leadership examinations.
However, he added, those who failed could retake the examinations after receiving additional training.
"We need more than 7,040 project leaders for the country's 440 regencies and municipalities," he said.
He added that the test papers had been set by a Bappenas team in collaboration with a number of universities.
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