Indonesia How Requesters Can Use the Right to Information

The idea is to empower local civil society groups to understand the key concepts underlying the right to information and to be able to use the Indonesian Act to obtain access to information. [...] The eighth session goes beyond the systems of access under the law and addresses the important question of how to use the media to further openness on the part of government. [...] What is the Right to Information (RTI) The core of the right to information is that public authorities do not hold information on their own behalf, but on behalf of the public as a whole and that the public has a right to access this information. [...] (2) A summary of the programmes and/or activities implemented by the public authority, which includes: (a) programme name and activity; (b) person-in-charge of the programmes and the activity implementing officer, and phone number and/or address; (c) the target and/or achievement of the programme/activity; (d) a schedule of the outputs of the programme/activity; (e) the budget of programme/activit. [...] (7) Information about the right of the public to access public information, the procedures to request such information, and to challenge any refusal of a request, the procedure to settle disputes and the person-in-charge and his/her contact details.