'SI BAPAK ON' Innovation: Increasing local tax revenue in Surakarta

摘要

Local tax as one of the Own-Source Revenue (PAD) is an indicator that shows the fiscal potential. However, not all regions have it sufficiently. In order to increase local tax revenues, the city of Surakarta created the Online Tax pay Information System named "Si Bapak On". This paper aims to discover the implementation of "Si Bapak On", the innovation supporting factors and also the obstacles. The research method is qualitative descriptive. The data collected by interviewing functionaries of Surakarta Agency for Management of Regional Revenue, Finance and Assets (BPPKAD). The result shows that it could runs well due to the support from the Major of Surakarta, collaboration between related stakeholders, massive socialization of the innovation, as well as the active participation from the society. The obstacles are the application is not yet integrated with the Regional Management Information System (SIMDA) which developed by the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) of Surakarta. Besides that, there are taxpayers who don't understand the use of this application, but there were also taxpayers who used technology to manipulate tax assessment data. To solve the problems, the Local Government of Surakarta can collaborate with BPKP; optimize mobile safari; and maximize the ability of BPKAD IT staff.