Jakarta – Indonesia's chief welfare minister plans to spend another Rp 200 million ($13,900) revising a website that her office took down last month amid criticism of its Rp 140 billion price tag and blatant plagiarism.

The site, revolusimental.go.id, set up by the office of Puan Maharani – who also happens to be the daughter of Megawati Soekarnoputri, President Joko Widodo's political patron – was accessible for just five days last month before being taken down.

The ministry's secretary, Sugihartatmo, said on Tuesday that the site would be revamped at an additional cost to the taxpayer of Rp 200 million.

"The money will come from the state budget. The Rp 200 million [will be spent] to develop and maintain [the new site]," he said as quoted by Detik.com. "Yes there is a need for additional funding, but the most important thing is that the website is good and useful."

The original site featured a picture of Puan and entry fields in which visitors could fill in their name and e-mail address to get updates. The tiled layout of the site bore a striking resemblance to that used on the site barackobama.com, run by the grassroots advocacy group Organizing for Action.

A look at the Indonesian site's WordPress theme template shows coding for a button to "donate to Obama" – indicating a sloppy copy-and-paste job by the coders of Puan's site.

Puan also appears to take full credit for the concept of "revolusi mental," or "mental revolution," which Joko touted heavily during last year's election campaign to refer to the need for a drastic change to the business-as-usual mind-set prevalent among officials and the public.

Critics have lashed out at the cost of the site, which seems to serve no purpose whatsoever other than glorify Puan. Puan's site has, as of last month, been taken down.

Source: http://jakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/news/puans-office-another-go-panned-website-wants-money/