Good governance requires information disclosure as one of its foundations. Simultaneously, freedom of information is one of the prerequisites for creating an open government. Therefore, laws and regulations in Indonesia place freedom for the public to access information as human rights as stated in Article 28F of the 1945 Constitution. This legal political commitment should be obeyed by all elements of power, especially because Indonesia is a democratic country, where the people's sovereignty guaranteed by laws and regulations.

The new standards is expected to elucidate the obligations of public bodies in disclosing public procurement information, especially with regards to procurement contract documents. In most cases, public bodies have previously interpreted procurement information to be excluded from public information, therefore inaccessible from public monitoring.