Preventing MBG Fund Misappropriation, PPATK Launches DETAK System

JAKARTA - The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) presents a Suspicious Early Detection System for the Free Nutrition Food Program (Detak MBG).

According to PPATK Head Ivan Yustiavandana, MBG's Detak is in line with the president's mandate so that every rupiah of the budget is channeled right on target to children, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers.

"We hope that PPATK can help the National Nutrition Agency to carry out programs in an accountable manner, provide great benefits to the community, as well as avoid various potential misuses and misappropriation of funds including criminal acts of corruption," Ivan said at the launch, quoted in an official statement, written Friday, August 29.

Meanwhile, Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) Rini Widyantini appreciated the PPATK's move to launch the system in order to strengthen supervision of the MBG Program.

"We want every rupiah spent to be accounted for not only in terms of administration, but also in terms of results and benefits for the community. DETAK MBG is an instrument to ensure this and a symbol of our national commitment to transparency and integrity in the implementation of national priority programs," said Rini.

Rini added that program management of MBG requires cross-party collaboration. This program is analogized as a giant ark that must be guarded together so that there is no budget leakage.

"The slightest leakage in the state budget is a betrayal of public trust and theft of the rights of our children to grow optimally," he stressed.

From the bureaucracy side, he assessed that the government's digital transformation is the key in ensuring that program management, implementation control, and system security run transparently and accountably.

"When the government is digitally connected, the supervision of state finances becomes more transparent and PPATK no longer works in darkness," said Rini.