REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs is drafting a government regulation concerning business licensing and public service standards to help improve the ease of doing business.

"We have six laws concerning business licensing and public services that we intend to standardize into a government regulation so that none of them will change. We want the policy to remain unchanged despite a change in government regime or ministers," the ministry's deputy for industry and trade Edy Putra Irawady said in an economic discussion here on Monday.

He said the government needs to make a fundamental policy to arrange the standardization of public licensing services to help improve the ease of doing business. As such, applications for new licenses will not be impeded by lengthy bureaucratic procedures.

The six laws deal with public services, public administration, state apparatuses, regional governments, business competition and investment.

He noted many regulations easily changed along with a change in government regime.

The Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs is in the process of finalizing draft government regulation to get them endorsed soon.

The 12th economic policy package issued on April 28 this year is directed towards creating the ease of doing business particularly for small and medium enterprises by improving licensing rules and procedures and cutting fees.

Since the first economic policy package was announced in September last year, the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) has approved investment commitments and proposals worth Rp1,852 trillion, up 45 percent from the same period a year earlier.

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