1,650 People Complained About Distribution Of Covid-19 Social Assistance To KPK

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has received a total of 1,650 complaints from the public regarding the distribution of social assistance (bansos) for handling COVID-19.

"As of 9 November 2020, the KPK received a total of 1,650 complaints from the public regarding the distribution of social assistance," said Acting KPK spokesman for the Prevention Division Ipi Maryati Kuding in a statement in Jakarta, reported by Antara, Friday, November 13.

Ipi revealed that the most complaints submitted were that reporters did not receive assistance even though they had registered, namely 730 reports.

In addition, he said, there were six other complaint topics that were also submitted by the complainants, namely 163 reports of assistance not distributed by the apparatus, the amount of aid received was less than what it should have been 115 reports, the list of assistance did not exist (fictitious recipients), 75 reports .

Furthermore, getting more than one aid totaled 18 reports, 12 reports of poor quality received assistance, should not receive assistance but received assistance but six reports, and various other topics totaling 531 reports.

"Of the total 1,650 complaints, 559 reports have been followed up by the relevant regional governments, 139 reports are in the process of being followed up, 647 reports are still in the verification process, and 226 others are still waiting for confirmation and completeness of information from the informants," said Ipi.

In addition, the KPK also noted that there were 79 complaints that had not been followed up by the regional government.

Furthermore, Ipi explained that in the scope of preventing corruption related to the supervision of social assistance during the elections, the KPK maximized the implementation of its coordination, monitoring and supervision functions.

"One of them is carried out by the KPK Regional Coordination Unit, which one of the scopes of its duties is to monitor the distribution of social assistance for COVID-19 throughout Indonesia," said Ipi.

At least there are three aspects of the distribution of social assistance for COVID-19 that are supervised by the KPK, namely the first from the aspect of governance. The KPK oversees the distribution process, its accountability and the pattern of receiving and following up on community complaints.

"Second, regarding data cleansing, the KPK monitors data integration of social assistance recipients, including so that" inclusion "and" exclusion errors "can be removed to ensure the accuracy of targeting recipients of social assistance," he said.

Third, on the policy aspect, namely by monitoring related regulatory support whether there are overlapping regulations between ministries or between the central government and regions that have the authority to distribute social assistance.