Getting Hotter! DPRD Chairman Threatens To Report Bareskrim If It Is Proven That Bank DKI's Loan To Ancol For Formula E

JAKARTA - The chairman of the DKI DPRD has threatened to report to the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police if the implementation of Formula E in the future is proven to be correct using loan funds from Bank DKI to PT Pembangunan Jaya Ancol.

Because, according to Prasetyo, the use of public funds by the Provincial Government and BUMD DKI is also his responsibility because he is the one who knocks on the approval of the APBD. Meanwhile, he no longer wants the implementation of Formula E to be charged from the APBD.

Moreover, the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan, has promised that the implementation of Formula E will no longer use the APBD, after a budget of Rp560 billion has been disbursed for payment of the commitment fee.

Prasetyo said this threat in a meeting of Commission B of the DKI Jakarta DPRD which summoned the board of directors of Ancol and Bank DKI.

"If the Rp1.2 trillion borrowed money from Bank DKI is for the Formula E track, I am the chairman of the board here, I will report it to the Criminal Investigation Department," said Prasetyo at the DKI DPRD building, Central Jakarta, Tuesday, December 28.

Prasetyo also still suspects that a number of loans from Bank DKI to PT Pembangunan Jaya Ancol will be used to organize Formula E. Although, previously this news has been denied by Bank DKI and Ancol.

In this case, Bank DKI distributed loans to Ancol amounting to Rp1.2 billion. Of the total loan, a total of Rp334 billion will be used for the maintenance and construction of facilities and infrastructure in East Ancol.

"Too many public funds have been used for formula E. Funds from PT Jakpro, Youth and Sports Office, and now it's the turn of Bank DKI's loan to Ancol. We're not stupid, really. The revitalization of the east side of Ancol gate is the same as the location where it was built Formula E circuit," said Prasetyo.

The Coordinator of Commission B of the DKI DPRD considers that it is too coincidental if the distribution of credit between BUMD DKI is carried out two days before the determination of the location of the Formula E circuit in Ancol.

"Bank DKI disbursed Rp1.2 trillion in credit to Ancol. The loan was signed on December 20, 2021. Two days later, on December 22, 2021, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government officially announced Ancol as the location for the Formula E event. Why are there too many coincidences about the Bank's financial loan problems? DKI to Ancol?" said Prasetyo.