REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA --  Vice President Jusuf Kalla has urged all institutions to operate transparently for the public to see their performance towards developing a clean government and democracy.

"We cannot achieve democracy without transparency and we cannot facilitate public participation without transparency," he said in his speech at the presentation of information transparency awards to public institutions at the state palace on Friday.

Kalla stated that all institutions, including ministries, state offices, state-owned companies, political parties, universities and provincial governments, must adopt transparency to grant the public access to information to develop a clean government and democracy. He added that transparency could lead institutions to be corruption-free as through it, the public can monitor their performance and output directly.

Moreover, Chairman of the Central Information Commission (KIP) Abdulhamid Dipopramono pointed out that every year, his institution ranked public services on the basis of how open they are about their information, as part of efforts to see their compliance in implementing the law on public information, or the KIP Law.

"The ranking system has been carried out since 2011 using a method that is always evaluated and developed," he affirmed.

Based on the results, the Ministry of Finance was ranked first, followed by the Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Transportation, the State Secretariat, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Communications and Informatics, Ministry of Religious Affairs, and Ministry of Administrative Reform.

Under the category of state institutions, the first position was held by the National Archive Agency, which was followed by the National Family Planning and Population Agency, the Finance and Development Supervision Agency, the Constitutional Court, the Corruption Eradication Commission, the Investment Coordinating Board, the Supreme Court, the Judicial Commission, and the Government Service and Goods Procurement Policy Agency.

Under the provincial government category, the government of West Nusa Tenggara was ranked first, followed by those of Aceh, East Kalimantan, Banten, Bali, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, Riau Islands, and East Java.

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