Kick Off SDGs

Kick Off-Workshop LOCALISE SDGs : Localising SDGs through Local Innovation in Indonesi

LOCALISE SDGs Kick-off Workshop was held on 31 July 2018 in Hotel Luwansa, Jakarta. Attended by 128 participants from the Ministries, program target's Regional Governments and UCLG ASPAC members as well as the public, the kick-off workshop brought two main agendas - the launching of Localise SDGs as a collaboration project between UCLG ASPAC and APEKSI with the support of European Union, and discussions regarding regional innovations in supporting the achievements of SDGs at local level. This event went smooth and was packed with information. Among many were integrating SDGs Indicators into regional planning that became a challenge for Local Governments, in terms of metadata availability, national policy related to regional planning documents; stipulation of indicator priorities within SDGs, central policies related to regional innovations etc..

Secretary General UCLG ASPAC, Dr. Bernadia Irawati Tjandrawati presented some points in her opening speech. Firstly, through LOCALISE SDGs Program, UCLG ASPAC encourages the involvement of Local Government in SDGs implementation as 60% of SDGs targets are for Local Government. Secondly, Local Leader’s commitments play important roles in reaching the SDGs at local level. While Chair of Indonesia Municipalities Assocation (APEKSI), Airin Rachmy Diany, S.H., M.H., described several strategic roles of APEKSI at city level, such as city cooperation, knowledge and experience sharing, local capacity improvement particularly for cities and dialog facilitation related to SDGs issues between governments. H.E Europe Union Delegation Charge d’affaires for Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam, CharlesMichel Geurts explained that European Union has strong commitment in supporting SDGs implementation in Indonesia through several projects, one of them is LOCALISE SDGs. He also stated that the Goverment has important roles to provide as a strong- enabling environment for Local Governments and CSOs so that they can move and reach SDGs at local level. Erna Witoelar, the MDGs Ambassador for Asia-Pacific 2003-2007 shared the keys in implementing SDGs. They are local innovation, partnerships across SDGs actors, such as local governments, private sectors, CSOs, universities and media as well as the SDGs priority settings by local governments. SDGs implementation opens the possibility of funding schemes from non-state actors such as zakat, philantropy or other society fundings. These schemes should be facilitated by governments through report collecting from all nonstate actors as Indonesia portfolio in reaching SDGs. The final speech was delivered by a representative from Ministry of Home Affairs, Drs. Anselmus Tan, M.Pd. He reminded us about the need for the Government, development partner and philantropy working together in supporting Local Governments to reach SDGs through the process of Local Action Plan (RAD), Local Development and Working Plan (RKPD), Local Mid-Term Development Plan (RJPMD) and Local Development Budget (APBD). All related stakeholders have to be involved in the planning process that runs on technocratic and participative principles. Mr. Tan also expressed his appreciation to local governments that came up with the innovation in creating the community welfare improvement program. He also mentioned that local innovation could be the key to local sustainable development.

Upon officially launched, the event continued its next agenda: three-session discussion. The first session was “ Local Innovation on SDGs Implementation in Indonesia”. The discussion was led by Mr. Robert Na Endi Jaweng, Executive Director of Monitoring Committee for Implementation of Regional Authonomy (KPPOD) with two speakers; Dr. Ir. Arifin Rudiyanto. M.Sc, Deputy of Maritime and Natural Resources, Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas) and Drs.

Safrizal, M.Si, Head of Local Innovation and Research Center, Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri).

SDGs is a global ambitious agenda with 17 goals, 169 targets and 244 indicators that are expected to reach people at all levels (no one left behind). The Government of Indonesia has adopted this particular agenda and realised the challenges in implementing SDGs. From National Development Budget perspective, for instance, it can only cover 20-25% of SDGs-related activities. Therefore, the government has to come up with various strategies to ensure that SDGs are achievable by all development actors, including stakeholders from non-state actors such as philantropy, academicians, private sectors, CSOs, as explained by Mr. Arifin Rudiyanto from Bappenas. While Mr. Sjafrizal of Ministry of Home Affairs stated that the definition of local innovation is any breakthrough in local government activities to support their daily works. Local innovation is targeted to accelerate community welfare through public service improvements, community participations and empowerment and local competitive level. The government has also drawn a regulation related to local innovation called Government Regulation No 38. One of its part is a protection aspect for local officials should there be a failure in innovation.

SDGs are strongly connected with 32 local governments’ main affairs, and in fact SDGs’ targets are defined as mandatory affairs. This could be a magnet for local governments to conduct an innovation for accelerating SDGs implementation. The center has also just lauched an innovation platform called Puja Indah (Pusat Jejaring Inovasi Daerah) to support local innovation practices. Several points were raised during this session, such as the need of national government assistance in integrating SDGs to Local Mid-Term Development Planning, mainstreaming SDGs national action plan into National Mid-Term Development Plan 2020-2024, the development of National Roadmap based on each target and defined strategy to achieve SDGs, the role of National Parliament with its SDGs working groups, roles

by National Planning Agency (Bappenas) and BPS (Indonesia Statistic Council) in identifying data collection based on SDGs target to set up monitoring mechanism, as well as the application of self-assessment monitoring system by non-state actors..

Lastly, all reports from the provinces will be accredited and submitted as part of SDGs implementation reports in Indonesia and delivered to the United Nation as a Voluntary National Report.

Second session was called LOCALISE SDGs Project Introduction, led by Achmad Firas Khudi, Field Officer of LOCALISE Project with three speakers; Meithya Rose (Project Manager LOCALISE SDGs), Sri Indah Wibinastiti (Direktur Eksekutif APEKSI) and Priza Marendaputra (LOCALISE SDGs Consultant for Baseline Survey). Mrs. Meithya Rose of LOCALISE SDGs described that this threeyear project is a collaboration between UCLG ASPAC and APEKSI with the support fromEuropean Union. LOCALISE, an abbreviation of Leadership, Ownership and Capacities for Agenda 2030 Local Implementation and Stakeholders Empowerment,

aims to support the SDGs targets di Indonesia through local governments and and strengthening the capacity of local goverment assocations in planning, implementing and monitoring Agenda 2030 progress implementation at local level,consisting 16 provinces and 14 cities. While Mrs. Sri Indah Wibinastiti of APEKSI as main partner in LOCALISE SDGs project fully supports the project. It is expected that the project would benefit not only the 14 targeted cities, but also all 98 city members of APEKSI. APEKSI also encourage local innovation to localise the SDGs. The final speaker, Mr. Priza Marendraputra, represented two main researchers and project Baseline Survey Consultant (Tety Sumargo of ITB and Zuzy Anne of SDGs Center UNPAD). He explained about the baseline survey as local government preparations in localising SDGs. The main target will be all target provinces and cities. The survey is expected to provide descriptions regarding SDGs status, enabling environmentlocally, strategic issues, problems and challenges. Consequently, the result will become the strategic recommendation to be applied by LOCALISE SDGs project during its implementation.

The third session is called “Innovations’ Important Roles in Local Development Planning for SDGs Implementation”. This last session was led by Arief Mulya Ramadhian of UCLG ASPAC with three speakers; R. Budiono Subambang, ST, MPM, Director of Local Government Planning, Evaluation, and Information, Ministry of Home Affairs, Drs. Maksum, M.Si, Head of Social, Youth and Sport Sub Division, DKI Jakarta, and Hamong Santoso, Senior Program Officer, INFID. This final session of the Kick-Off Workshop was opened by Mr. R. Budiono Subambang ST, MPM of Kemendagri as the first presenter. He briefed on the local government development planning substances based on the Regulation of Minister of Home Affairs no. 86/2017 concerning Planning Local Development Controlling and Evaluation SOP, SOP of Evaluation Local Regulation Design on Local Long Term Development Planning and Mid Term and Local Mid Term Development Planning.

He also mentioned the need of a new breaktrough such as e-planning application as a solution to various issues regarding development planning. Northern Maluku and Bali are among the few local governments that have applied this particular application. Drs. Maksum, M.Si of DKI Jakarta shared their experience in developing DKI Jakarta’s Mid Term Development Planning 2017-2022, SDGs mainstreaming to Mid Term Development Planning and innovation in DKI Jakarta Government. In developing RPJMD, DKI Jakarta was assisted by 17 experts using the tagging method in mainstreaming SDGs. They applied two approaches for planning and budgeting; Bottom up through Community Meeting (Rembug RW) using PlanJKT and website, and Top-Down through adjusting Nawa Cita and 10 national priorities.

Innovation in planning, implementing and monitoring include e-RPJMD, eHIBABBANSOS, e-ASSET and Public Service Mall.

The final speaker,Hamong Santono of INFID explained about the roles of CSO in SDGs implementation. The inclusive principle of SDGs that emphasises all stakeholders’ involvement is a key to SDGs implementation. This is relevant as SDGs goals are ambitious enough that it is impossible for governments to run them without other support. Multi Stakeholder Partnership (KMP) has become a strategic approach in implementing SDGs, both nationally and locally. Key points arised during the discussion are the need for budgeting and responsibility mechanisms to be divided between Provinces and Cities since most of the SDGs targets are under city’s responsibilities, the options for local governments to choose the SDGs priorities to be included into RJPMD based on each local leader’s vision and mission, strength, potential and local fiscal capacities, Minimum Service Standard (SPM) as the local government’s total priorities and having strong relevance with SDGs targets, and the strategic roles of CSOs as local government partners to disseminate and implement SDGs.