Challenges Of E-Government Essay

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What are the challenges of e-government implementation to reduce the level of bureaucratic corruption in Indonesia ?

Many developing countries are racing to fight corruption over this last decade, as corruption brings many negative impacts worldwide, such as discouraging investment, decreasing quality life of citizens, poor public services, and damaging social cultural life. Kauffman et al (as cited in Mistry and Jalal, 2012) argue that there are three main causes of corruption. These causes are lack of accountability and transparency, too much discretionary powers of bureaucrats and the monopoly power of civil servants. Thus, these need to be confined by building good governance and accountability in all of public service area. This can be done by reforming public administration, increasing officer salary, law enforcement, and building good governance. At present the existence of advanced technology has brought a greater impact on public sector reform. Influencing the government means to serve the public as a stakeholders as …show more content…

A study in Punjab state, India, shows there are several factors that lead to reduced corruption. One of the factors stated in this study is by applying directly at SUWIDHA Center (Single User-friendly Window Disposal Helpline for Applicants) and using the Single Window System. This system uses one roof and no middleman. Therefore, the applicants who have civil affairs can connect directly to officials of SUWIDHA and they are charged on base government rules. Furthermore, applicants will be able to know the status of an application via online, so they are less likely to give bribe to the official (Singla and Aggarwal, 2012). Thus this system is more likely to be useful to reduce petty corruption in developing

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