Governance of Biomedical Research in Singapore and the Challenge of Conflicts of Interest

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-296
Author(s):  
CALVIN WAI LOON HO ◽  
LEONARDO D. DE CASTRO ◽  
ALASTAIR V. CAMPBELL

Abstract:This article discusses the establishment of a governance framework for biomedical research in Singapore. It focuses on the work of the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC), which has been instrumental in institutionalizing a governance framework, through the provision of recommendations to the government, and through the coordination of efforts among government agencies. However, developing capabilities in biomedical sciences presents challenges that are qualitatively different from those of past technologies. The state has a greater role to play in balancing conflicting and potentially irreconcilable economic, social, and political goals. This article analyzes the various ways by which the BAC has facilitated this.

Author(s):  
Sonyendah Retnaningsih ◽  
Disriani Latifah Soroinda Nasution ◽  
Heryna Oktaviani ◽  
Muhammad Rizqi Alfarizi Ramadhan

Historically, State Administrative Court (PTUN) has existed since 1986, with the enactment of Law Number 5 of 1986 concerning State Administrative Court which currently has been amended by Law Number 9 of 2004 concerning Amendment to Law Number 5 of 1986 concerning State Administrative Court and amended again by Law Number 51 of 2009 concerning the Second Amendment to Law Number 5 of 1986 concerning State Administrative Court. The role of the Administrative Court according to the explanation of the law, the PTUN functions as a control or supervisory agency thus legal actions from government officials do not deviate, in addition to protecting the rights of citizens from the actions of officials who abuse their authority or act arbitrarily. Currently, the object of dispute and can be sued at the State Administrative Court is only a State Administration decision reduced by the exceptions stipulated in Article 2 and Article 49 of the PTUN Law. The provisions of Article 3 of the Administrative Court Law No. 5 of 1986 on negative fictitious could potentially no longer be enforced since the enactment of Article 53 of the AP Law which stipulates positive fictitious. Since the promulgation of Law Number 30 of 2014 concerning Government Administration (hereinafter referred to as AP Law) on 17 October 2014, there has been a change in the legal criteria from the government written stipulation (beschikkingen) which was initially restrictive and can be sued to the PTUN, yet it has recently become extensive (which was originally mere beschkking, currently it almost covers all variations of besluiten). With the enactment of the AP Law, there will be an expansion of absolute competence and objects of state administration disputes, as stipulated in Article 87 of the AP Law which includes: first, Government Administration Decrees, as stipulated in Article 1 point 7 of the AP Law; second, Government Administration Actions Based on Article 1 point 8 of the AP Law. Furthermore, with the enactment of the Supreme Court Regulation Number 2 of 2019 concerning Guidelines for Government Action Dispute Resolution and the Authority to Adjudicate Unlawful Conducts by Government Agencies and/or Officials (onrechtmatige overheidsdaad / OOD), the judicial power shall transfer from the General Court to the State Administrative Court. This crucial matter continues to be the groundwork and reason for conducting the current research entitled the expansion of the state administration dispute object after the enactment of Law Number 30 of 2014 concerning Government Administration and the supreme court regulation (Perma) Number 2 of 2019 concerning Guidelines for Government Action Dispute Resolution and Authority to Adjudicate Unlawful Conducts by the Government Agencies and/or Officials (onrechtmatige overheidsdaad / OOD). Conducted through normative juridical research method, this research-based paper examined the interviews through judges at PTUN Jakarta and Bandung and the main data source within this qualitative analysis serves as the secondary data or literature data.


Author(s):  
Saswati Mukherjee ◽  
R. Geethapriya ◽  
Suba Surianarayanan

The advancement of various computer technologies has led to the migration of traditional governance to e-governance that enables the citizens to access the government services through Internet. Although, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) act as backbone for e-governance in helping the government meet its citizens' needs through efficient service delivery, e-governance lacks the cross-agency communication as the e-services are offered by the government agencies independently. A better version of e-governance is c-governance (connected governance) in which the government agencies are connected and offer an integrated service to the citizens. Cloud is now a leading technology that enables collaboration across agencies and seamlessly integrated services. This chapter suggests the importance of adopting cloud technologies for c-governance and presents a discussion of the existing government clouds of Singapore and UK. A c-governance framework is also presented to illustrate how the cloud deployment and service models can be adopted for c-governance.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Mila Mumpuni ◽  
Ade Sonny Martin

<p>Official Bond is a common form of engagements in an education institution funded by an agency. The engagements result that the granted parties must work for a certain period. The violation against this official bond will cause disadvantages for the agency that has funded the educational process that is subject to claims for compensation against the offending party. One of the government agencies that implement the official bond is the Ministry of Finance. Based on the data from 2010-2014, the state losses due to the violations against the Official Bond in the Ministry of Finance showed less optimal performance. One of important obstacles in the completion of the bond violations is the difficulty in determining the value of the state losses. This paper aims to develop the possibilities of the Official Bond recorded as an Intangible Asset and its implications toward the restitution of the state losses due to the violations against the official bond at the Ministry of Finance.</p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dian Utami Setya ◽  
Wella Wella

Information system is one of the most important things that can help every companies to improve the performance of their company. The Directorate Generate of the Treasury is one of the government agencies that already use information systems to support their performance to handle the entire transaction of state budgeting and also they provides information systems to serve their users. That system must have a priority of the security and reliability. To ensure that the system has both of the priority, it is necessary to holding of the information systems auditing to ensure that capability level of their governance. The author doing the audit of information system using framework of COBIT 5.0 and doing measurements with Capability Level. EDM 01 (Ensure Governance Framework Setting and Maintenance) and EDM 02 (Ensure Benefits Delivery) are the two main processes of that government needs to do an audit, because they want to make sure that the system can running well and can deliver every benefits to their users. Based on the measurements that have been done using a capability level, both of the main processes are stalled on level 4 and could not reach the level of target on level 5 because there are some activities that cannot going well and can be inhibit the others process to reach their goals.


2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 249-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaikh Hamzah Abdul Razak

PurposeZakat has a strong humanitarian and social-political value. Zakat occupies a central role in Islamic fiscal policy and operations. At the same time, it does not preclude the use of modern tools and techniques in raising the state revenues. Islam provides its own comprehensive approach how the state can raise its revenue and how the revenue should be spend. Zakat is collected from those who are qualified and distributed to the eight recipients as identified in the Quran. Waqf instrument plays an important role in Muslim societies as its support the aged, the poor, the orphans through provision of education, training and business activities. The creation of waqf is strongly advocated, especially the creation of cash waqf in view of the expensiveness of land as waqf. There are collaboration efforts for cash waqf and zakat collection being done through Islamic banks and takaful. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approachThe data were source from the inland revenue, government agencies and state religious authorities, interviews, articles and conference reviews, as well as economic reports and later transcribe into charts and figures.FindingsIts shows the efficiency of wealth distribution according to the Islamic principles and application of the financial inclusion in the Islamic society.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitation is in verifying the accuracy of data gathering from the government agencies.Social implicationsThe study can be used in financial inclusion through the application of zakah and waqf being applied to alleviate poverty.Originality/valueThe research is an extended work done on zakah and waqf in Islamic wealth distribution.


Author(s):  
Tomass Hodosevičs ◽  

The principle of separation of power as a principle of a democratic state, which is derived from the overriding principle of a state governed by the rule of law and falls within the scope of Article 1 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia (Satversme), determines the separation of branches of state power. The need to respect the principle derives from considerations of respect for the freedom of individuals and is well established. There is no doubt that a distinction must be made between authorities belonging to different branches of power, however, a disagreement emerges as regards the categorical nature of the principle of overlapping. Legislation of the Republic of Latvia allows for the concurrent performance of the positions of a member of the parliament and the government, which means that the state official acts simultaneously in the legislative and executive powers. Respective practices can lead to risks such as conflicts of interest and misuse of power.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bunyamin Alamsyah ◽  
Uu Nurul Huda

During the 32 years of the New Order government certainly has its advantages and disadvantages, in terms of the development of infrastructure and supra-structure growing rapidly, but the journey has decreased function of government and its role even stagnant. Therefore, there was the Reform of 1998 in a variety of fields. In reply funsgi decline and the role of government under the Constitution of 1945, there was an opinion with the formation of a new organization outside the government. Gagsan ideas are realized with the establishment of committees that do not require the State budget a little, sometimes a clash of authority between committees also with government agencies. Committees should not be separated from the politics of law. Keywords: Institutionalization of Political Law, Commissions of the State, State Administration System


Humaniora ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1168
Author(s):  
Iwan Irawan

Construction always rises to polemics and conflicts of interest between landowners and the state guarantees the rights of ownership over the land. The government is trying to bridge the existing conflict of interest with the aim to achieve the infrastructure development by issuing regulations on land acquisition for public purposes. Conceptually, accommodation on the two interests has actually existed since 1960 when the Law of Principal Agrarian was formed. This paper aims to clarify that the provision of land for public purposes associated with the release/revocation of land rights and the rights of control by the state in Pluit Reservoir project normalization does not violate the Law and Human Rights. It is appropriate for the primary purpose of the Law of Pricipal Agrarian, which is for public interest and for the welfare of the whole society. 


Author(s):  
I Gusti Ayu Kartika ◽  
I Ketut Rai Setiabudhi ◽  
Sri Winarsi

Oversight of foreigners becomes very important in line with the increase in international crime, one of which is a narcotics crime. Through technological developments, the spread of narcotics has reached almost all regions in Indonesia. The state does not want its territory to have people involved in narcotics crimes. The main objective of the supervision of foreigners is to protect the community and the sovereignty of the State. The aim of the study to analyze who has authorized to conduct surveillance of foreigners related to narcotic crimes. This research is a normative legal research using the legislation approach and concept approach. The results of the research are: The authority to supervise foreigners related to narcotics criminal acts based on the Immigration Act is carried out by the Minister by forming a team consisting of relevant government agencies or agencies both at the central and regional levels. The institution is the Immigration Agency and is also carried out by the National Narcotics Agency which coordinates with the Police. Furthermore, based on the Law on narcotics that is authorized to conduct surveillance of Narcotics crime as regulated under the provisions of Article 61 paragraph (1) is the Government. The government supervises all activities related to Narcotics.. Oversight of Foreigners related to narcotics crime, is not only done when they enter, but also while they are in the Territory of Indonesia, including their activities. Immigration Supervision covers the enforcement of immigration law, both administrative and Immigration.


Liquidity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-85
Author(s):  
Andilo Tohom

The process of preparing government agency budget can not be separated from the proposed work plan and budget of the division in government agencies based on its duties and functions. Each proposed activities, outputs and budget required then compiled into the budget of upper unit up to the level of Ministries/Agencies/Government. Nevertheless, it should be referred to objectives to be achieved by the government. A proper understanding of the principle of 'money follow function "is inherent in the notion of performance based budgeting should be owned by the parties involved in the budgeting process. Performance-based budgeting is governed by different provisions of the budget in our country, stressing the importance of the alignment of the activities/programs funded from the state budget with government targets. The literature study presented in this paper is aimed to provide important insight for government entities when preparing the budget.


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