DPD RI Removed 9 Recommendations For BLBI Cases
JAKARTA - The Indonesian Regional Representative Council (DPD) issued 9 recommendations for the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI) case at the 4th Plenary Session of the Republic of Indonesia Session I Session Year 2022-2023. This recommendation was released to coincide with the end of the duties of the BLBI Special Committee (Pansus), DPD RI on Friday, October 7, 2022.One of the recommendation points is the irregularity in the sale of BCA's Assets from the National Banking Restructuring Agency (BPPN). A total of 9 recommendations are contained in the DPD RI Decree Number 18/DPD RI/I/2022-2023 concerning, Recommendations on the Results of the Implementation of the BLBI Special Committee.The recommendations were signed directly by the Chairman of the DPD, AA Lanyalla Mahmud Mattalitti, and three Deputy Chairs namely Nono Sampono, Mahyudin and Sultan B. Najamudin.The first point of the recommendation states that the DPD RI BLBI Special Committee has found the burden of the state budget this year in the form of paying interest on BLBI recap bonds worth IDR 47.78 trillion as of September 2022."Therefore, in the next recommendation, the DPD RI BLBI Special Committee asked the Government, in this case the Director General of Financing and Risk Management of the Ministry of Finance, to display information regarding the state securities code related to BLBI in accordance with Law (UU) Number 14 of 2008 concerning Public Information Disclosure," said the Chairman of the DPD RI, Lanyalla, in a press release, Monday, October 10.The second recommendation is that the DPD RI BLBI Special Committee also found irregularity in the process of selling BCA assets from BPPN to new buyers. The third recommendation is that the BLBI DPD RI Special Committee found irregularity when BCA was managed by a team of directors appointed by the government."Fourth, the DPD RI BLBI Special Committee stated that the results of the BPK audit on the findings of the BLBI had not yet been followed up by the government, which allegedly contained indications of corruption, said Lanyalla.The fifth recommendation stated that the work of the BLBI Task Force Team formed by the government which will end at the end of 2023, to collect banks for the arrears of their obligations.Therefore, it is necessary to increase the authority given to take steps that comply with the provisions of the legislation, to be able to settle the return of the bank's debt.The sixth recommendation is that the DPD RI leadership has been asked by the BLBI Special Committee to form a New Special Committee in order to follow up on the work of the BLBI DPD RI Special Committee which has not been completed and ends on October 8, 2022."And seventhly, the new Special Committee needs to coordinate with the role of Law Enforcement Officials (APH) such as the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the Indonesian Attorney General's Office, the Indonesian Police, and others to follow up on the completion of the BLBI case," he explained.The eight recommendations, said Lanyalla, were made by the BLBI DPD Special Committee based on the results of discussions and reviews conducted by the BLBI DPD RI Special Committee through the Plenary Meeting, Working Meeting, Hearing Meeting, General Hearing Meeting and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) as well as Consulting Meetings with the BPK RI which have been going on since the working period of the Special Committee as the results of the 6th Plenary Session of the Second Session of the 2021-2022 Session Year dated January 11, 2022.Finally, the Chairman of DPD AA Lanyalla Mahmud Mattalitti emphasized that the recommendation of the DPD RI BLBI Special Committee on Completion of BLBI Cases was prepared as a form of implementing the DPD RI Supervision Function on State Financial Accountability."Hopefully, with the recommendation of the DPD RI, the Government's completion of the BLBI case through the Task Force for Handling State Claims to BLBI can be carried out in an accountable and professional manner," he concluded.