Member since 2019
Prior to CoST: Infrastructure in context
West Lombok is a regency of the Indonesian Province of West Nusa Tenggara. In 2019, Indonesia scored 40 out of 100 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and was ranked 85 out of 180 countries. According to the Global Corruption Barometer, 92% of people think government corruption is a big problem in Indonesia. Meanwhile, 30% of public service users surveyed said they had paid a bribe in the last 12 months. In addition, Indonesia’s competitiveness and infrastructure conditions were ranked in 50th position out of 141 countries in the world in the Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 2019 issued by the World Economic Forum. As with many countries, infrastructure investment forms a key part of Indonesia’s development strategy. Projects such as Kertajati Airport – otherwise known as the “crown jewel” of Indonesian public-private partnerships – serve as strong examples of cooperation between the central government, provincial government, and the private sector. However, historical obstacles to infrastructure delivery remain, including a lack of transparency throughout the project cycle and a lack of clarity in the regulatory framework for project delivery.
CoST West Lombok: How it all began
The West Lombok Regency applied for CoST membership as part of the 2019 CoST competitive process, and its application was formally accepted in November of that year. The programme officially launched in July 2021. CoST West Lombok is hosted by the Road Transport and Traffic Forum (FLLAJ), a multi-stakeholder group comprising government and non-governmental members, which focuses on issues relating to road infrastructure and traffic. Before CoST, West Lombok had already made good progress in advancing the principles of transparency, multi-stakeholder working, and civic engagement through the Provincial Road Improvement and Maintenance pilot programme, in partnership with the Indonesia-Australia Infrastructure Partnership. CoST West Lombok continues to use CoST pillars to further build on this progress.
Multi-Stakeholder Working
CoST brings together stakeholder groups with different perspectives and backgrounds from across government, the private sector, and civil society. Through each member’s Multi-Stakeholder Group, these entities can guide the delivery of CoST and pursue infrastructure transparency and accountability within a neutral forum.
CoST West Lombok’s Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) was established in early 2020, shortly after West Lombok joined CoST. Hosted by FLLAJ, CoST West Lombok’s MSG consists of 19 governmental members and 22 non-governmental members from the private sector, civil society, and community and religious leaders. The Head of the Transportation Agency is the CoST champion. Building from an existing platform, the RTTF, which was focused on overseeing performance of the roads sector, was rejuvenated to include the private sector, to create a hybrid platform of sector players that would dialogue and build trust on a vast number of issues across various sectors, beyond the roads sector.
Data publication
The data publication process ensures that data about the purpose, scope, costs and execution of infrastructure projects is open and accessible to the public, and that it is data is published in a timely manner.
In July 2021, CoST West Lombok launched a brand-new infrastructure data portal called INTRAS, which publishes infrastructure data from across the regency according to the Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standard (OC4IDS) and was built based on the award-winning SISOCS portal. With the launch of INTRAS, CoST West Lombok is expanding the types of infrastructure projects that the portal holds and strengthening the use of data through the independent review process and civic engagement.
In Indonesia, the publication of infrastructure project data is required by Law No. 14 of 2008. The law stipulates the obligation of public bodies to provide and serve requests for information in a quick, timely, and straightforward manner. CoST West Lombok further strengthened the Law no.14 by putting in place a Formal Disclosure Mandate published as Law no.19 in 2023, the new law addressed the issues around the low data publication scores, provided for the migration of INTRAs system from CoST West Lombok server into the Government server, and included a requirement for entities and officials to use INTRAS to disclose data in the regency. This mandate has helped enhance the quality of infrastructure project data and increase social accountability through the use of CoST tools and standards.
CoST West Lombok has embarked on a process to strengthen data use, piloting the implementation of the CoST independent review framework, learning from their initial independent review process. A number of projects have been recommended and flagged for reviews, with the surge of more data through INTRAs.
Infrastructure Transparency Index (ITI)
CoST West Lombok is among the CoST members that have implemented the Infrastructure Transparency Index. Using the vast amount of data published through INTRAs, the first ITI in 2024 reviewed all entities and projects in West Lombok, identifying critical sector issues, such as a lack of formal information staff across all entities, and weak citizen participation.
Civic engagement
Social accountability and civic engagement ensures that information on public infrastructure projects is in the public domain. CoST works with stakeholders such as the media and civil society to promote the findings of the assurance process and ensure decision makers are held to account.
To facilitate data use, CoST West Lombok in early 2024 launched a new analytical dashboard, which analyzes published infrastructure data, providing the government with real-time, simplified information to make evidence-based decisions. The government can use the data to inform planning and budget allocations. The analytical dashboard provides table graphs and maps of the actual locations for infrastructure projects, total budgets, and procurement entities responsible, based on INTRAs data. Following the publication of this platform, civil society organisations and the private sector continue to testify how it has been easy for them to access infrastructure data, to inform their respective duties.
West Lombok has also trained dozens of government officials, media, civil society, private sector, and academia representatives on capacity building and using data. In 2024, CoST West Lombok trained 44 media staff from government and outside of government on how to use CoST data in writing more objective news coverage, with the result that 87.5% of participants said the training gave them an understanding of how to use the INTRAS data dashboard to write advocacy articles on public infrastructure.
Get in touch
Imam Arief Putrajaya – CoST West Lombok Manager
westlombok@infrastructuretransparency.org
Useful Links
- Information platform https://intras.lombokbaratkab.go.id/
- Analytical dashboard https://analysis-intras.lombokbaratkab.go.id/
- Annual workplan 2025 https://infrastructuretransparency.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/West-Lombok-annual-workplan-2025.pdf