1. Workshop Mainstreaming Social Accountability in the Curriculum of KID’s Democracy School KID, Jakarta 3 June 2010

2. Workshop objectives To understanding the concept and practice of Social Accountability To gather experiences on practices and the form of institutions and efforts to develop Social Accountability in Indonesia To generate inputs for crafting KID’s module on Social Accountability and Democratisation in Indonesia

3. Workshop agenda 3 June 2010 AgendaPresenters 09.00 – 09.30 Welcoming remarksSugeng Bahagijo 09.30 – 10.30 Presentation on Social Accountability by ANSA-EAPDr. Angge 10.30 – 10.45 Tea/ coffee break 10.45 – 12.00 Presentation from KID:  Introduction on School of Democracy  Results of rapid survey  Relation between social accountability & democratisation Ignas Kleden 12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break 13.00 – 16.00 Sharing and brainstorming :  the areas of social accountability  the methodology  the tools  how does it contribute to democratisation All participants 16.00 – 16.30 Workshop summary 16.30 – 17.00 Closing

4. Workshop flow Social Accountability: Conceptual Framework Relation between Social Accountability and Democratisation Lessons from practitioners Contributions to strengthening democratic institutions and governance

5. Emerging issues in Indonesia Transitional phase: problems of capacity at both government and civil society Some problems may led to the emerging trends of local oligarchy; elites captured over resources and hampering accountability Dilemma on corrective or prevention of corruption, where ethical values are not necessarily being practiced Importance of social accountability: Reforming governance Connecting citizen to their government Allowing citizen to participate into the process of development and democratisation

6. 4 freedoms of SAc Freedom of information Freedom of expression Freedom to participate Freedom of association 3 outcomes: Public services People’s welfare, and Protection of rights 2 benefits: For citizen: quality and sustainable services For government: legitimacy and trust 4 elements: Building capacity of active citizens Promoting constructive engagement Create opportunity for responsible government (open and responsive) Cultural context

7. The relationship between social accountability and democracy Democracy is universal, local values not always inline with democracy values Democracy assistance, not development assistance: knowledge, values, and skills Education to build conscious citizens Democratic issues in real sectors School of democracy as democratisation from below Social accountability can promotes universal values of democracy operational at the local cultural context Social accountability can enhance the quality of discourse as an effective means to enlarge citizen participation (quantity)

8. Generic principals Accountability: constructive engagement in controlling the performance of public officials Citizens is entitled to control. Obligation for policy makers and program implementers. Social initiative; direct, fair and balance relationship Relevance Social accountability is a set of method to account for public policies and activities. Measureable social accountability will bring the creation of good governance. Social accountability is closely related with power engagement; balancing relationship between people, state and business community Social accountability is prerequisite for the maintenance of democracy procedures

9. Generic relevance:  Democracy promotes civil liberties and human rights, where  Social accountability obliged citizen to make democratic substance more visible and tangible Issues: How to assess the impact of SA in Democratisation; is the degree of participation and budget allocations adequate enough Conditionality of using SA, particularly used when democratic procedures are not led to people’s interests Emphasis notion on “Social” Accountability as a guidance to clarify levels of accountability (vertical – horisontal) How SA can bring social consideration into public or corporate governance Institutionalisation of social accountability to enable the creation of civil good governance, public good governance and corporate good governance

10. Relevance I: Social accountability can reduce the institutional ambivalence of democratic institutions Social accountability can materialise the democratic values Relevance II: Social accountability as a continuous way (process) to gain accountability of democratic institutions in materialising the democratic values

11. Sharing experiences KPK: Areas: education Teacher as the role model for anti-corruption Module and training Methodology: in-class team teaching, multi-media, and out-class observations Not enough (no yet impact for changing situation) since mental behavior New strategy: changing the conventional module into a technical module (NLV) Lesson: specific training both methodology, methods and content is important.

12. BPPT/ Kemenpan Identification of the main elements of Social Accountability and Democracy Continuous learning from integration of SA & Democracy The ends should be at good governance; public, private and civil governance Strong commitment from the leaders

13. There are standards, tools and best practices available related to accountability (not begin from zero)