JAKARTA: Despite its pledge to uphold transparency, the government has not done enough to promote open and transparent governance, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations says.

The NGOs-Cross-Media Community (MediaLink), Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW), the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS), the Indonesian Parliamentary Center (IPC), Yayasan Tifa, Indonesia Budget Center (IBC) and the Civil Society Alliance for Democracy (Yappika)-said that most government agencies remained unwilling to publish important information for the public in spite of the fact that Indonesia was one of the founding members of the Open Government Partnership (OPG).

Indonesia, together with the United States, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and the Philippines, set up the OPG in 2011, pledging to be more transparent, open and accountable and allow greater citizen participation in the government and increase access to technology.

Ahmad Faisol of MediaLink said that most government institutionsâ?? interpretation of upholding transparency was to set up a website that contained basic information on their activities.

Research conducted by the Central Information Commission (KIP) found that only 29 percent of agencies in the central government published important information to the public.

Two years after the setting up of the national KIP, only 12 provinces have established KIP offices in their regions, with Jakarta being the latest.