Government Digitalization in Overcoming Inefficiency of National Budget Utilization for Official Travel of Government Officials

Abstract

Inefficiency of state and regional budget utilization for government trip occasions is concerned by numerous parties, one of them is the President of the Republic of Indonesia. The main headlight is bureaucracy personnels always spend a huge number of proposed state and regional budgets just for official trips. In order to solve this problem, the government digitalization concept can be applied. It also persuaded the researcher to do this research with a main purpose is identifying positive implications of implementing government digitalization to minimize inefficiency in the public budget for bureaucracy trips. This study was designed by using descriptive qualitative to achieve a holistic situation about the researched topic. As a way to gain essential data several techniques have been used such as: interview, observation, and literature study. In addition, purposive sampling was used to choose the suitable informants. The result of this research exposes that government digitalization is able to be implemented in order to solve the main focus of the research. As a suggestion, the governments have responsibility to construct an integrated systems which do several required occasions such as: showing the contract of the trips, addressing public budget utilization during the trips, and optimizing the acquired outputs of the trips.