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Thu, 12/03/2009 - 18:11
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PPATK TO BUILD DISASTER RECOVERY FACILITY IN BOGOR

Jakarta, Dec 3 (ANTARA) - The Financial Transactions Reporting and Analysis Center (PPATK) will establish a disaster recovery facility in Bogor, West Java, in 2010, in an effort to safeguard data in an emergency situation, its chief said.

PPATK Head Yunus Husein said here on Thursday that the creation of a data recovery facility was important because the center still lacked a data storage back-up facility that would be useful in an emergency.

"We still don't have a data storage back-up facility and have so far been keeping our data in bank deposit boxes. We hope the plan to establish the data storage back-up facility will be agreed by the finance minister," he said.

In the meantime, with regard to the government's goods and service procurement, Yunus said as a budget user his side still harbored a fear feeling to carry out the auction.

"It seems I am still afraid because I don't understand too much about good and service procurement," he said.

According to Yunus, the value of his agency's procurement of goods auction in 2010 would likely increase four folds of that in 2009. "Possibly because we have a plan to establish the disaster recovery facility," the PPATK chief said.

He said that in the auction process carried out so far at the PPATK, a number of parties who lost the tenders lodged protests while actually the auction had been carried out based on the rules.

"Some filed a protest, they even lodged the protest to the House of Representatives (DPR) whereas actually these projects have nothing to do with collusion," he said.

He hoped that the auction of goods and services procurement projects through the electronic system would improve the government's procurement of goods and services system.

The procurement through the electronic service system would be able to reduce collusion and corruption practices because it would be more transparent, consistent and accountable in nature, he said.***


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