PALANGKA RAYA – EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION BUREAU. Provincial Secretary Fahrizal Fitri, attended the Coordination Meeting on Business Licensing Implementation and Online Single Submission System (OSS) together with Coordinating Minister for Economy Airlangga Hartarto, Minister of Investment / Head of BKPM Bahlil Lahadalia, Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian, via a virtual video conference at Bajakah Meeting Room, Governor’s Office, Palangka Raya, Friday (28/05/2021).

The Coordination Meeting chaired by the Coordinating Minister for Economy Airlangga Hartarto discussed the derivative of the Job Creation Law related to business licensing which is Government Regulation No.5 of 2021 on the Implementation of Risk-Based Business Licensing and Government Regulation No.6 of 2021 on Business Licensing in the Regions. It also discusses the OSS-RBA (Online Single Submission-Risk Based Approach) system.

In his briefing, the Coordinating Minister for Economy stated that one of the main keys to implement the Job Creation Law is the implementation of a business license that is more certain, easier, faster. “For this reason, it is mandated to accelerate risk-based licensing with the Online Single Submission (OSS) system which is carried out by Ministries/Agencies and Regional Governments, both at the provincial and regency/municipality levels,” he said.

Furthermore, he said, accelerating business licensing is part of economic transformation in an effort to accelerate the National Economic Recovery due to COVID-19 pandemic, in order to implement this, readiness is needed, namely regulations, systems, and institutions. “The readiness of this regulation, the Central Government has prepared, completed the regulations needed for the implementation of business licensing and the OSS system, consisting of 48 Government Regulations, 4 Presidential Regulations, and 193 Ministerial Regulations and Agency and Institutional Regulations,” explained the Coordinating Minister for Economy.

Then, the Regional Government (Province and Regency/Municipality) is obliged to compile and adjust regional regulations in order to support the implementation of business licensing as mandated by Government Regulation 6/2021.

“The implementation of risk-based business licensing and OSS is expected to run well, so it needs to have regulation and mitigation from all Ministries/Agencies as well as local governments,” said Airlangga Hartarto.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Investment/Head of BKPM Bahlil Lahadalia explained that the process of making OSS had been running since the end of February. “We are building this new OSS system, not taking what has been done in OSS version 1.1. Because the basic rule process is different from the previous one,” he said.

In this process, the Ministry of Investment has carried out several trial steps (6 times) on OSS readiness. “For implementation in the regions, we are programming it, even at the provincial level One Stop Investment and Integrated Service (DPM-PTSP) has conducted technical consultations with the Ministry of Investment/BKPM to make implementation training and also for dissemination,” said the Minister of Investment.

On the same occasion, Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian said that the Job Creation Law is essentially opening up jobs, one of which is the ease of doing business both at the central and regional levels. “We know that there is still a long way to go for business, often private investors, both domestic and foreign, experience obstacles due to the length of the bureaucracy, the piles of regulations at the central and regional levels. So that we are a country that is quite complex, complicated in licensing,” he explained.

The Minister of Home Affairs stated that what needs to be the main concern is for regions to share the same frequency with the central government to facilitate licensing. “For this reason, the regions are mandated to review the regional regulations, which may hamper them, slow down the licensing process. That needs to be revised. What needs to be eliminated, get rid of. What needs to be simplified, just simplify,” concluded the Minister of Home Affairs. (win/renn/ben/translated by feb)