Improving Ministries and Agencies Website for Budget Transparency Development Objective To promote budget transparency in the Ministries/Agencies (KL) by encouraging stakeholders' participation and improved access of public information. Description of the IDF-financed components and activities The program can be divided into 7 main activities: A.    Component 1: Assess the application of websites for transparency and public information access in Ministries/Agencies. 1.   Assessment on 47 Ministries/Agencies (KL) website. Before program begins, team will conduct assessment on 47 KL website to understand the main issues that made the websites currently not functioning as information resource, communication media, and tool to encourage budget transparency. The parameter that will be assessed/audit are the website's design architecture, the quality and comprehensiveness of the content, website management and how responsive the related website is towards public's inquiry. The assessment is needed to determine the required improvements. The assessment process will be conducted in two phases, scanning and detailed assessment. We hope to be able to achieve generic input from the simple website and comprehensive input from the advance website. Public Works website will obtain special attention in this phase. Other websites envisioned are (1) National Education, (2) Defense, (3) Religion, (4) Health and (5) Transportation, having in mind that these five departments (plus Public Works) represent about 40% of the National Budget, are vulnerable towards various budget inefficiencies and directly related to the public. 2.   Determining criteria to determine KL website ranks. Team will formulate the criteria of ideal website for KL. In the formulation of the criteria, team will gather input from the experts. The criteria will be made as a reference to develop other KL website as well as in ranking the website. B.    Component 2: Promoting a better practice to improve the accountability and access on public information. 3.   Capacity building for KL in managing better website. Sets of technical assistance will be deployed to assist the Ministries agencies in developing and managing the website. Through various workshops that will be held, we hope the team will be able to transfer the know-how, especially those related to the usability, design graphic quality, and content management. Other than workshop, team will also provide assistance to the KL that plans to improve their website, by opening helpdesk for a few days, where KL can contact the helpdesk to receive assistance. In the education process, the team will not only meet the KL staff at the technical level, but also with those having position of policy maker. 4.   Public event. The event is expected to be able to educate the public in general especially the social society regarding various information that they can get from the website. The event will be conducted in several big cities in Indonesia, for example Jakarta, Medan, Semarang, Surabaya, and Ujung Pandang. 5.   Conducting website ranking. Using the criteria formulated, a board of adjudicators (consisting of 5 experts from various disciplines) will conduct scoring to determine the rank of KL website. Besides, KL website will also be ranked by public, through the vote they give. The ranking will be published in various media, to encourage positive competition spirit among KL. C.    Component 3: Outreaching the initiative and knowledge management. 6.   Awarding best (10) and worst (10) KL website. At the end of the process there will be an announcement of the best and the worst website. In the event that will be covered by the media, the team will announce the 10 best website and 10 worst website according to the adjudicators. The award for best website is to appreciate and encourage positive competition, meanwhile the announcement of 10 worst website is to give deterrent effect for those who fails to pay attention to website development. 7.   Writing comprehensive report: Writing a report that will be distributed in electronic format and will be accessible in various website to maximize learning process for the public and civil.