Ministry of the Interior (Taiwan)

{{Short description|Government ministry of the Republic of China}}

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| native_name_a = 內政部

| native_name_r = Nèizhèng Bù (Mandarin)
Nui-chṳn Phu (Hakka)

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| jurisdiction = Taiwan

| headquarters = Zhongzheng, Taipei

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| minister1_name = Liu Shyh-fang

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| chief1_name = Hua Ching-chun

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| chief2_name = Wu Ronghui

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| chief3_name = Huang Junyi

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| child1_agency = Architecture and Building Research Institute

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| child4_agency = Land Consolidation Engineering Bureau

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| child6_agency = National Conscription Agency

| child7_agency = National Fire Agency

| child8_agency = National Immigration Agency

| child9_agency = National Land Surveying and Mapping Center

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The Ministry of the Interior (MOI; {{zh|c=內政部|p=Nèizhèngbù|poj=Luē-chèng-pō͘}}) is a cabinet level ministry under the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan). It is the ministry responsible for home affairs and security throughout Taiwan, including population, land, construction, military service administration, national emergency services, local administration systems, law enforcement.{{cite web |url=https://www.moi.gov.tw/english/foreword.aspx |title=Foreword - the Ministry of Interior |access-date=2009-01-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229044451/https://www.moi.gov.tw/english/foreword.aspx |archive-date=2008-12-29 }}

Core functions

It closely monitors the rights of the residents and every aspect of national development to ensure steady progress of the nation, strengthen social peace and order, and upgrade the quality of citizens' lives.

The Ministry strives to achieve the following:{{cite web |url=https://www.moi.gov.tw/english/foreword.aspx |title=Foreword - the Ministry of Interior |access-date=2009-01-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229044451/https://www.moi.gov.tw/english/foreword.aspx |archive-date=2008-12-29 }}

  1. Accomplish government reform to boost government vitality;
  2. Care for the minorities;
  3. Promote a fair military service system;
  4. Implement pragmatic growth management to promote sustainable development;
  5. Reinforce police administration reform;
  6. Strengthen crisis management to build a comprehensive disaster prevention system;
  7. Manage the goals to rebuild the Nation into a beautiful hometown;
  8. Implement walk-around management and close planning/control

Duties

In accordance to the Ministry of Interior Organization Act, the Ministry is charged with the following:

  • National internal affairs administration.
  • The Ministry bears the responsibilities to direct and monitor the highest-ranking local officials in the execution of tasks charged by the Ministry.
  • For direct administration affairs, the Ministry is charged with the authority to order or take disciplinary actions against the highest-ranking local officials. When an official is suspected of conducting illegal acts or overstepping his/her authority, this local official may be suspended or removed pending a resolution from an Executive Yuan meeting.

Organization

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The Ministry is organized into departments, one office, four sections, six committees, and one center to share the responsibilities.

=Departments=

  • Department of Civil Affairs: in charge of local administration, local self-governing, border administration, public properties, political organizations, elections, religions, rites, funeral, rituals, and ceremonies, historical site investigation, maintenance, and registration, and other civil affairs.
  • Department of Conscription Administration
  • Department of Cooperative and Civil Associations
  • Department of Household Registration Affairs: in charge of household registration administration, nationality administration, population policies, census, national identification cards, name-usage and registration, migration planning, and other population affairs.
  • Department of Land Administration: in charge of land surveys and registrations, land value assessments, equalization of land rights, land entitlement investigations, land consolidation, land expropriation, land utilization, territorial administration, and other land administration affairs.
  • Department of Religious and Ceremonial Affairs

Furthermore, the Ministry is also set up with sixteen social administration units and two land administration units, which are directly under the management of the Ministry as second level agencies.

= Administrative agencies under the Ministry of Interior =

Ministers

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! №

! width="180"|Name

! colspan=2 width="180"|Term of Office

! Days

! width="100"|Political Party

! width="120"|Cabinet

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 1

| align=center|Chang Li-sheng (張厲生)

| 11 June 1948

26 June 1948{{age in days|1948|6|11|1948|6|26}}

| Kuomintang

| Weng Wenhao

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 2

| align=center|Peng Chao-hsien (彭昭賢)

| 26 June 1948

27 December 1948{{age in days|1948|6|26|1948|12|27}}

| Independent

| Weng Wenhao
Sun Fo

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 3

| align=center|Hung Lan-yu (洪蘭友)

| 27 December 1948

1 April 1949{{age in days|1948|12|27|1949|4|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Sun Fo
He Yingqin

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 4

| align=center|Li Hanhun (李漢魂)

| 1 April 1949

6 February 1950{{age in days|1949|4|1|1950|2|6}}

| Kuomintang

| He Yingqin
Yan Xishan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 5

| align=center|Ku Cheng-kang (谷正綱)

| 6 February 1950

16 March 1950{{age in days|1950|2|6|1950|3|16}}

| Kuomintang

| Yan Xishan
Chen Cheng I

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 6

| align=center|Yu Ching-tang (余井塘)

| 16 March 1950

25 April 1952{{age in days|1950|3|16|1952|4|25}}

| Kuomintang

| Chen Cheng I

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 7

| align=center|Huang Chi-lu (黃季陸)

| 25 April 1952

1 June 1954{{age in days|1952|4|25|1954|6|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Chen Cheng I

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 8

| align=center|Wang Teh-pu (王德溥)

| 1 June 1954

27 March 1958{{age in days|1954|6|1|1958|3|27}}

| Kuomintang

| Yu Hung-chun

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 9

| align=center|Tien Chung-chin (田炯錦)

| 27 March 1958

1 June 1960{{age in days|1958|3|27|1960|6|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Yu Hung-chun
Chen Cheng II

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 10

| align=center|Lien Chen-tung (連震東)

| 1 June 1960

3 June 1966{{age in days|1960|6|1|1966|6|3}}

| Kuomintang

| Chen Cheng II
Yen Chia-kan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 11

| align=center|Hsu Ching-chung (徐慶鐘)

| 3 June 1966

1 June 1972{{age in days|1966|6|3|1972|6|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Yen Chia-kan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 12

| align=center|Lin Chin-sheng (林金生)

| 1 June 1972

11 June 1976{{age in days|1972|6|1|1976|6|11}}

| Kuomintang

| Chiang Ching-kuo

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 13

| align=center|Chang Feng-hsu (張豐緒)

| 11 June 1976

1 June 1978{{age in days|1976|6|11|1978|6|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Chiang Ching-kuo

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 14

| align=center|Chiu Chuang-huan (邱創煥)

| 1 June 1978

1 December 1981{{age in days|1978|6|1|1981|12|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Sun Yun-suan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 15

| align=center|Lin Yang-kang (林洋港)

| 1 December 1981

1 June 1984{{age in days|1981|12|1|1984|6|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Sun Yun-suan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 16

| align=center|Wu Po-hsiung (吳伯雄)

| 1 June 1984

22 July 1988{{age in days|1984|6|1|1988|7|22}}

| Kuomintang

| Yu Kuo-hua

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 17

| align=center|Hsu Shui-teh (許水德)

| 22 July 1988

1 June 1991{{age in days|1988|7|22|1991|6|1}}

| Kuomintang

| Yu Kuo-hua
Lee Huan
Hau Pei-tsun

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 18

| align=center|Wu Po-hsiung (吳伯雄)

| 1 June 1991

15 December 1994{{age in days|1991|6|1|1994|12|15}}

| Kuomintang

| Hau Pei-tsun
Lien Chan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 19

| align=center|Huang Kun-huei (黃昆輝)

| 15 December 1994

10 June 1996{{age in days|1994|12|15|1996|6|10}}

| Kuomintang

| Lien Chan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 20

| align=center|Lin Fong-cheng (林豐正)

| 10 June 1996

15 May 1997{{age in days|1996|6|10|1997|5|15}}

| Kuomintang

| Lien Chan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 21

| align=center|Yeh Chin-fong (葉金鳳)

| 15 May 1997

5 February 1998{{age in days|1997|5|15|1998|2|5}}

| Kuomintang

| Lien Chan
Vincent Siew

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 22

| align=center|Huang Chu-wen (黃主文)

| 5 February 1998

20 May 2000{{age in days|1998|2|5|2000|5|20}}

| Kuomintang

| Vincent Siew

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 23

| align=center|Chang Po-ya (張博雅)

| 20 May 2000

1 February 2002{{age in days|2000|5|20|2002|2|1}}

| Independent

| Tang Fei
Chang Chun-hsiung

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}}; color:white;" | 24

| align=center|Yu Cheng-hsien (余政憲)

| 1 February 2002

9 April 2004{{age in days|2002|2|1|2004|4|9}}

| Democratic Progressive Party

| Yu Shyi-kun

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}}; color:white;" | 25

| align=center|Su Jia-chyuan (蘇嘉全)

| 9 April 2004

25 January 2006{{age in days|2004|4|9|2006|1|25}}

| Democratic Progressive Party

| Yu Shyi-kun
Frank Hsieh

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}}; color:white;" | 26

| align=center|Lee I-yang (李逸洋)

| 25 January 2006

20 May 2008{{age in days|2006|1|25|2008|5|20}}

| Democratic Progressive Party

| Su Tseng-chang I
Chang Chun-hsiung

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 27

| align=center|Liao Liou-yi (廖了以)

| 20 May 2008

10 September 2009{{age in days|2008|5|20|2009|9|10}}

| Kuomintang

| Liu Chao-shiuan

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Non-partisan}}; color:black;" | 28

| align=center|Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺)

| 10 September 2009

6 February 2012{{age in days|2009|9|10|2012|2|6}}

| Independent
Kuomintang

| Wu Den-yih

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|People First Party (Republic of China)}}; color:white;" | 29

| align=center|Lee Hong-yuan (李鴻源)

| 6 February 2012

3 March 2014{{age in days|2012|2|6|2014|3|3}}

| People First Party
Kuomintang

| Sean Chen
Jiang Yi-huah

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Kuomintang}}; color:white;" | 30

| align=center|Chen Wei-zen (陳威仁)

| 3 March 2014

20 May 2016{{age in days|2014|3|3|2016|5|20}}

| Kuomintang

| Jiang Yi-huah
Mao Chi-kuo
Chang San-cheng

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}}; color:white;" | 31

| align=center|Yeh Jiunn-rong (葉俊榮)

| 20 May 2016

15 July 2018{{age in days|2016|5|20|2018|7|15}}

| Democratic Progressive Party

| Lin Chuan
William Lai

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}}; color:white;" | 32

| align=center|Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇)

| 16 July 2018

7 December 2022{{age in days|2018|7|16|2022|12|7}}

| Democratic Progressive Party

| William Lai
Su Tseng-chang II

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}}; color:white;" | —

| align=center|Hua Ching-chun (花敬群)

| 7 December 2022

31 January 2023{{age in days|2022|12|7|2023|1|31}}

| Democratic Progressive Party

| Su Tseng-chang II

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}}; color:white;" | 33

| align=center|Lin Yu-chang (林右昌)

| 31 January 2023

20 May 2024{{age in days|2023|1|31|2024|5|20}}

| Democratic Progressive Party

| Chen Chien-jen

-
- bgcolor=#EEEEEE

! style="background:{{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}}; color:white;" | 34

| align=center|Liu Shyh-fang (劉世芳)

| 20 May 2024

Incumbent{{age in days|2024|5|20}}

| Democratic Progressive Party

| Cho Jung-tai

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Access

The MOI building is accessible by NTU Hospital Station of the Taipei Metro on the Red Line.

See also

References

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