Koster Confirms Kejaksaan Minta Data Pungutan Wisatawan Asing Bali

DENPASAR - Bali Governor Wayan Koster confirmed that the Attorney General's Office had summoned a number of regional government leaders related to the Foreign Tourist Collection (PWA).

"It's true (there was a summons), not asking for information but asking for information and data, I just got a call from the Attorney General's Office, the Attorney General's Office is helping," said Koster in Denpasar, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, March 17.

Previously, it was reported that the Attorney General's Office had summoned a number of officials in Bali for reports of alleged misuse of PWA.

The Governor explained that the Attorney General's Office actually gave a recommendation that PWA be more optimal, because since the collection of Rp. 150 thousand in 2024, the amount of revenue obtained in a year is only Rp. 318 billion or equivalent to 32 percent of the total 6.3 million foreign tourists who entered Bali.

Continuing in 2025, the Bali Provincial Government collected PWA reaching IDR 368 billion, or 34 percent of the 7 million foreign visitors.

"So it goes up, but it's still not optimal, but there is no corruption where there is corruption because this payment is digital, there is no cash, it goes directly to the Bali BPD account there," said Koster.

After the tourists paid, the collection went directly to the Bali BPD and automatically went into the regional treasury so that it was ensured that there was no loophole for corruption, but it was realized that the collection results were still far from the target.

"It's clean, how much it is accepted in the BPD is that it goes into the regional treasury, now it is used for cultural and natural protection, all of which are in accordance with these two elements, there are customary villages, tourism, infrastructure, the environment including garbage," said Governor Koster.

From his assessment, the Attorney General's Office only questioned why the PWA program was less optimal than the potential money that should have been collected from millions of tourists entering Bali.

The Bali Provincial Government responded to the less than optimal collection of foreign tourists because immigration had not yet entered as one of the institutions that could help.

The regional government also cannot force it because in the regulation that regulates PWA, cooperation with immigration has not been regulated, while to partner with it requires a legal umbrella on it, whether PP, Perpres, or Ministerial Regulation.

"Why is it less optimal because of immigration, so that's what has to be dealt with, not questioning what has nothing to do with it, what we have to solve is how to involve immigration in the collection process," said Governor Koster.

In the summons of the Attorney General's Office, Koster said there were seven heads of regional devices who were asked for information and data, some such as the Bali Satpol PP, BPKAD, Karo Hukum, Bapenda, and the Tourism Service.

All of them have appeared before the prosecutor's office, and the Governor of Bali ensures that everything goes well because in the summons the attorney general helps to make the PWA optimal.