Foreign consultants Creating the High Cost
Finance August 20th, 2009
The government is expected to soon complete the Consulting Services Bill, due to a need for rules in the field of consulting services considered very urgent. Whether in the context of improving the competitiveness of national consultants as well as the fulfillment of quantity and quality of national development.
“Actually, this bill longer have started from 2007, instead beginning of 2009 the draft has been entered into the Commission XI DPR-RI. But somehow the discussion suddenly stopped, “said Chairman of the National Association of Indonesian Consultants (INKINDO) Jabar, Firdaus Achmad Doddy.
According to Doddy, who was elected as Chairman INKINDO Jabar 2010-2014 for the service, the AFTA (ASEAN Free Trade Area) for consultancy services was started in 2010 this. This means a need for regulatory consulting services are not negotiable.
Explained, on one side of the law could become a kind of consultant nontarif barriers or filters for protecting the national interests of the invasion of foreign consultants. It was also giving space to the national consultants, in order to remain able to develop themselves and more to host their own country.
“Actually we are more harmed by large projects financed from foreign loans. Because they usually require foreign consultants, whose quality is not better than consultants Indonesia. The result of financing projects are usually very high, but it becomes a debt burden of the nation, “he said.
Things like that can be minimized by Doddy with the Act, at least not by requiring the involvement of national consultants as possible. Thus, wasteful use of the national debt could also be reduced
