DPR Reminds New Village Minister: Heavy To Monitor Village Funds, Mr. Has No Organs In The Regions

JAKARTA - Chairman of Commission V DPR, Lasarus reminded the Minister of Villages and Development of Disadvantaged Regions (PDT), Yandri Susanto, to carefully supervise village funds because they do not have a central extension in the regions.

According to Lasarus, village heads who receive Rp2 billion per village are more afraid of the inspectorate than the minister.

"Has the entire village fund that received this village fund ever been surveyed an increase in development or not? Then the use of this fund optimally or not? I want to tell you, the most serious thing is that the Minister of Village Affairs supervises the use of village funds, because you don't have organs in the regions. Supervision of village funds is handed over to districts, finally the village head is more afraid of the inspectorate than the Minister of Villages who holds a budget of IDR 71 trillion," said Lasarus during the inaugural meeting of the introduction of commission partners at the Nusantara Building, Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday, October 29.

The PDIP legislator advised Mendes and Wemendes, Riza Patria, to formulate a matter of monitoring da adesa so that there is no misappropriation in every use. Because according to Lasarus, many officials were exposed to arrest operations (OTT) regarding this village fund.

"In my opinion, Mr. Yandri, my message is that we support how you and Mr. Riza Patria will formulate the supervision of village funds, there are many village heads going to prison because of their lack of attention to the use of state finances," said Lasarus.

"Then there are many villages that receive a lot of village funds but the villages are not developing, what's there? To what extent is the supervision? Monitoring of the Ministry of Villages like what about the use of village funds, this is something that interests me," he concluded.