Legal Drafter
What I learned here
How public procurement actually reaches people: not through regulation, but through a user who cannot complete a payment. I joined as a legal drafter and ended up in front of rooms of government users explaining the catalogue. That is where I learned to translate rules into instructions somebody can follow, and to stay reachable after the session ends.
The work, in summary
Worked on Electronic Catalogue v6, the national public procurement marketplace, at the directorate that runs it. The role combined regulatory review, user consultation, regional training, and coordination between ministries, regional governments, banks, and technology vendors. Day to day it was troubleshooting: a user cannot log in, a payment will not clear, a region needs its accounts provisioned.
Achievements
- Served as primary point of contact for approximately 10 ministries and institutions — including the Ministry of Defense and the Indonesian National Armed Forces, and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry — resolving operational issues and coordinating account provisioning across geographically distributed units.
- Initiated and drove payment integration for three provincial governments (Jambi, Bangka Belitung, Central Kalimantan), coordinating the local government, the regional bank, and the technology vendor — enabling catalogue payments that would otherwise have been blocked, and preventing budget absorption from stalling.
- Delivered training for the first cohort at Universitas Pertahanan RI, covering general procurement and Electronic Catalogue v6 for the Makan Bergizi Gratis programme — taught before joining the agency that runs it.
- Served as speaker and trainer for Electronic Catalogue v6 across regions, for ministries, institutions, and regional governments.
- Supported regional election procurement through Electronic Catalogue v5, including market sounding and working sessions with regional election commissions.
Documentation
Photographs from this period.
Teaching Electronic Catalogue v6 across the regions
10 photosElectronic Catalogue v6 is the country’s largest public procurement marketplace, used by every ministry and regional government. These sessions ran in person and online, for audiences with very different starting points — from first-time system users to technical procurement teams. Requests for guidance kept arriving after each session ended, which is the only measure that matters.
Procurement accompaniment for the 2024 regional elections
8 photosSupported regional election procurement through Electronic Catalogue v5 — the first time this route was used at that scale for election logistics. Market sounding in Jakarta, then working sessions with regional election commissions.
Payment integration with regional government
2 photosCoordinating the regional government, the regional bank, and the technology vendor so catalogue payments could clear. Without this link, budget absorption stalled at the point where the work had already been done.
