Refl: Menteri ini lupa kacamata maka oleh sebab itu dia buta huruf, hanya 
menandatangani tanpa mengetahui isi dari MOU. Berapa banyak perjanjian dengan 
negara asing ditandatangani oleh para petinggi NKRI tanpa mengetahui isi dari 
perjanjian yang mereka tandatangani?


http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/03/13/minister-signs-mou-blindly.html
Minister signs MoU blindly
Bagus BT Saragih, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 03/13/2012 10:10 PM 
The Indonesia-Singapore bilateral meeting on Tuesday included the signing of 
agreements at the ministerial level, but one of the Indonesian ministers said 
he did not know the substance of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) he and 
his counterpart just signed.

Education and Culture Minister M. Nuh and his Singaporean counterpart, Minister 
for Foreign Affairs and Law K. Shanmugam, signed “The cooperation in the field 
of Education” agreement. 

Consecutively, Administrative Reforms Minister Azwar Abubakar and Shanmugam 
signed an agreement titled “Technical cooperation on Capacity Building for 
Public Officials”.

The agreements were made on the sidelines of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono 
and visiting Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s leaders’ retreat meeting at the 
Bogor Presidential Palace in Bogor, West Java. Both state leaders witnessed the 
signings.

While the agreement title was self-explanatory, Azwar could not answer 
journalists’ questions about the contents of the agreement he just signed.

Azwar, who oversees bureaucratic reform and is tasked with boosting the quality 
of the nation’s administrative sector, admitted that he did not scrutinize the 
document before signing it.

“I will answer in two or three days. I have to study it first because I did not 
read [the MoU] article by article,” Azwar said.

“The point is that Singapore has much better public servants, and the country 
is not far from here,” said the National Mandate Party (PAN) politician who was 
installed as a minister just five months ago.

When asked if the agreement would include cooperation such as the exchange of 
civil servants on study programs, Azwar said, “I do not know yet what forms the 
ties were [in the agreement]”.

Unlike Azwar, Nuh could elaborate on the Singapore-Indonesia education 
agreement.

He said the deal included the exchange of university professors. 

“It also includes a mutual understanding that the degrees held by Indonesian 
university graduates will be recognized by Singapore and vice versa,” he said.

Indonesian students will also be given greater access to study and conduct 
research in the city-state, Nuh added.

“We also encourage Singaporean students to study here.” (nvn)


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