PSSI's Initial Financial Audit Results, It Turns Out That Some Are Unrecorded!

PSSI illustration. (Photo via Antara)

JAKARTA - The initial process of PSSI's financial audit has been running. Several preliminary findings were presented to the public.

PSSI Executive Committee member Arya Sinulingga said PSSI's financial bookkeeping was not recorded, namely from 2017 to 2019. This was revealed by Arya when delivering an update to the PSSI financial audit process, Tuesday, May 9.

"The initial audit process is underway based on the MoU assessment between PSSI and E&Y. The initial information we can provide, from the internal PSSI review, there are three periods to be audited. The 2017-2019 period, then 2019-2023, and the period in the management of Mr. Erick Thohir which has only been running for three months," Arya said in a written statement.

In accordance with the memorandum of understanding between PSSI and Ernst & Young, in this first stage the two parties agreed to examine the plan to carry out a forensic audit or the best investigation of PSSI's financial records.

From there, the auditor firm immediately asked PSSI for a number of data covering legal entities, organizational structures, financial reports from 2017 to 2023, financial transactions, accounting systems used, allocation of use of sources of funds from FIFA and AFC, as well as cooperative relations with PT Liga Indonesia Baru (PT LIB) as the operators of Liga 1 and Liga 2.

From the internal review process, it was found that in the 2017 to 2019 period, PSSI's financial statements were not recorded at all. Thus, PSSI must use information technology services to obtain these data from the financial part of the e-mail during that period.

"There is some physical data, but it is not clear. For example there is a check release, but there are no details," said Arya.

Arya then explained, in the period 2019 to 2023 PSSI's financial statements had begun to be organized and there were improvements in transaction matters and disbursement procedures. However, the accounting model used is still manual and does not use any accounting system.

The new PSSI management under the leadership of General Chair Erick Thohir, said Arya was committed to improving the organizational financial record pattern. The correct financial system from Ernst & Young's input will also be used by PSSI.

"Pak Erick wants a change. In 2023 in Pak Erick's new management period, we will use a correct and valid accounting system according to the input from the audit firm E&Y. We want PSSI's financial statements to be neatly recorded," he concluded.