Open Government Week is a global movement held one week in May every year. During Open Government Week 2024 (May 27-31, 2024), reformers around the world – in government and civil society – who are working to make their communities stronger, more open, participatory, inclusive, and accountable, is coming together in public debates, assemblies, hackathons, webinars, sharing stories and good practices to accelerate solutions to their most pressing problems and advance democracy by:
• Protecting the right to information
• Fighting corruption
• Guarding civic space
• Combating climate change
• Improving digital governance
• Opening up budgets
• Including all voices
• Expanding access to justice
• Ensuring media freedom
• Enhancing public participation
During this time, Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia is reminding the importance of Civic Space to ensure that civil society can play a role and be directly involved in overseeing the government so that the idea of responsive and accountable open government can be realized.
In 2021, CIVICUS, a monitoring network of civil liberties, reported that over half of the global population lives in countries where the civic space is restricted, obstructed, repressed, or shut down. In 2017–2022, CIVICUS also categorized Indonesia as a country with an obstructed1 civic space, giving the government a score of 4,6. The “civic space” refers to the access and protection of human rights in civil and political fields. It encompasses the freedom to share and express thoughts, assemble and associate, and access a wide range of information.
This report serves as an advocacy tool for civil society organizations, ensuring that the government can guarantee civil society participation in the extractive sector at both the national and local levels. This is important given the complex obstacles and challenges often encountered by civil society in addressing transparency and accountability issues within this sector. In addition, this report is expected to serve as a learning experience and provide recommendations for stakeholders in the EITI regarding best practices in guaranteeing civic space in Indonesia.
Read the report here:
https://lnkd.in/gEx2_NNZ
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