President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo said on Tuesday that his administration would focus its attention on two matters, namely deregulation and infrastructure development.



To achieve his deregulation and infrastructure development targets, Jokowi said he had ordered the Home Ministry to remove 3,000 draft bylaws deemed to have the potential to hamper the delivery of public services.



'In our country, there are 42,000 regulations, comprising ministerial regulations, presidential regulations, government regulations and many more. There are also 3,000 draft bylaws stuck at the Home Ministry because of various problems,' Jokowi said on Tuesday. He was speaking at the inauguration of the Pak Kasih Tayan Bridge in Sanggau regency, West Kalimantan, which is the longest bridge in Kalimantan and the second longest in Indonesia after the Suromadu Bridge in East Java.



Jokowi said he had ordered Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo to remove the 3,000 draft bylaws from regencies, municipalities and provinces across Indonesia because they would burden the people.



'I've observed that the draft bylaws piling up at the Home Ministry are mostly about taxes and levies, which I think will bring difficulties for the people,' said the President, without detailing the sectors involved.



Jokowi said he would also remove government, presidential, ministerial and other similar regulations that he considered had slowed down the government's work. He said such regulations had hampered the government's progress both in composing policies and in implementing its plans in the field.



'Our country is huge. It has changed very fast. Such change requires the government to deregulate policies and to simplify regulations both at central and regional levels so we can be more flexible and fast in making decisions,' said Jokowi.



Apart from inaugurating the 1.4-kilometer Pak Kasih Tayan Bridge, Jokowi also inspected an infrastructure development site in Entikong, Sanggau regency, which borders West Kalimantan and Malaysia. (ebf)(+)

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