Urgensi Penunjukan Pejabat Pengelola Informasi dan Dokumentasi Badan Publik di Kota Semarang

Abstract

The right to obtain information as mandated by Article 28F of the 1945. Constitution has not been implemented to full potential itself, it’s indicated by some difficulty from the public to access public information because PPID has not been appointed in public agency. Appointment of PPID is mandatory for all public agencies which outlined in Government Regulation No. 61 on 2010 about the Implementation of Law No. 14 of 2008 that mention about the transparency of Public Information. The problem in this research is how the urgency of the appointment of PPID and the constraints of PPID appointment on public agency in the city of Semarang. The purpose of this research was to describe the urgency as well as find any obstacles in the appointment of PPID. This research used qualitative research methods to analyze the data and the author used the stages of data collection, data reduction, data presentation and conclusion or verification. The results showed that in the city of Semarang, there are two factors urgency on PPID appointment, namely urgency normative and sociological importance. Urgency normative forms a pressure laws and urgency sociological form a community needs for information. There are obstacles during this appointment of PPID such a internal constraints which derived from the public agency in the form of a closed culture, bad bureaucracy and lack the capacity to PPID. The external constraints coming from public information users who do not understand the function of PPID. These obstacles can be overcome by using a model of management in the form of Socialization and Training (PPID / public agencies and the public itself), Community Assistance and the Threat of Disputable Information.