inp.polri.go.id - Banjarmasin. As a public body, the National Police is obliged to provide general information as regulated in Law No. 14 of 2008 concerning Openness of Public Information (KIP). To fulfil this obligation in providing information services to the public or legal entities, the National Police, in this case, the Police Public Relations Division, held a Consequence Test for a list of public information to clarify information that was excluded from the South Kalimantan Regional Police work unit. South Kalimantan Regional Police Chief, Pol. Inspector-General Rikwanto, in his remarks, read by the Head of Public Relations of the South Kalimantan Regional Police, Pol. Grand Commissioner Mochamad Rifa'i said that Public Relations has an essential role as a provider of information services. However, he continued, Article 17 of the KIP Bill has regulated information that is excluded or cannot be accessed by the public. This excluded information must be subject to a consequence test by the information and documentation management officer, said the Head of Public Relations when reading the remarks by the South Kalimantan Regional Police Chief at the opening of the Technical Guidance at the Bhayangkara Mathilda Batlayeri Hall of the South Kalimantan Police, Monday (12/13/2021). The Head of Public Relations said this aimed to protect confidential documentation and not for public consumption. Ending his remarks, the Head of Public Relations conveyed the message from the South Kalimantan Police Chief to the participants to take part in the activities and absorb the material provided so that there were no information disputes. Meanwhile, the Head of the Analysis and Evacuation Division of the Information and Data Center Bureau of the Public Relations Division of the National Police, Pol. Grand Commissioner Sugeng Hadi Sutrisno. Conveyed a list of excluded information which serves as a legal basis for information and documentation management officials (PPID) in refusing requests for information. "Because the (excluded) information has negative consequences. Besides that, this (consequence test) is a first step to avoid information disputes," he said. police attended the technical development activities and the consequence test of excluded information. H. Tamliha Harun, as Chair of the Prov. Information Commission. South Kalimantan / Speakers, all Information Management and Documentation Officer work units at the South Kalimantan Regional Police follow the health protocol.