Open data initiative of the Ministry of Finance on national budget transparency in Indonesia

This research seeks to understand the open data initiative on national budget data in the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia. It explores the governance context that influences the creation of the initiative, and looks at the impacts of the initiative, particularly on budget advocacy work in Indonesia. This research attempts to key questions on these issues by using a theoretical framing of ‘innovation conception and adoption’, and draws on interviews with informants on the data supply side (namely within the Ministry of Finance), and interviews with informants who are potential users of the data, particularly from NGOs working on budget issues in Indonesia