Jokowi Asks For Budget To Be Supervised To The People: Watched Really One By One

President Jokowi at the opening of the National Coordination Meeting for Government Internal Supervisory/screenshot of Youtube, Presidential Secretariat

JAKARTA - President Jokowi emphasized the importance of supervision in the use of the budget, both the APBN and regional budgets. This supervision is important to ensure that the program runs without irregularities.

"This is where the importance of the role of supervision, the role of supervision is very, very important. Why do I also often check in the field going down, I want to make sure that what we program up to the people reaches the community. Because we are weak on that side, if we are not monitored carefully, if we don't check directly, if we don't look at it, be careful, we are weak there," said Jokowi speaking at the opening of the National Coordination Meeting for the Government's Internal Supervisory as broadcast via the Presidential Secretariat Youtube, Wednesday, June 14.

The President said that supervision to the implementation level could not be optimal. Therefore, Jokowi emphasized that monitoring focuses on orientation of results, not implementation procedures.

"We're just looking down that there are still babaklas ones, let alone not. I ask that the supervision is orientation, not the procedure. The orientation has results," he said.

In his briefing, Jokowi also requested that internal supervisors work according to their main duties and functions. Regional heads are asked to comply with recommendations from BPKP.

"Internal supervision should not only be an assessment and also don't let any data be covered up. If this is indeed a mistake, what kind of improvement will be wrong and I also ask all regions not to ignore the recommendations provided by BPKP," said Jokowi.