Member of the House of Representatives from the Gerindra Faction, Azis Subekti, said that there was one unease that slowly settled when he reread the BPK Chairman's speech in the Submission of the Summary of the Results of the Second Semester Examination of 2025 in front of the DPR Plenary Meeting, Tuesday, April 21.
According to him, there are things to be considered, namely the value of unity and unity in the midst of development.
"(The BPK report) The numbers are large, the achievements are visible, and there is even legitimate pride when it is mentioned from 685 audit reports (LHP), consisting of 7 financial LHPs, 237 performance LHPs, and 441 LHPs with specific objectives. The state managed to uncover and save potential losses of up to IDR 42.87 trillion. In it there is IDR 18.53 trillion in the form of losses and potential revenue shortfalls, as well as IDR 24.34 trillion due to wastefulness, inefficiency, and ineffectiveness," said Azis Subekti in his statement, Wednesday, April 22.
"However, in the midst of this series of achievements, it feels that something is not completely intact. This country seems to work very hard, but it has not always worked as one body. It moves, but it is not necessarily in the same direction. It builds, but it is not necessarily united. That is where we need to reflect: our development problems today are no longer the absence of programs, but the weakness of the architecture that supports it," continued the legislator from the Central Java VI District.
"If we explore deeper, continued Azis, the problem starts from upstream, from where policies should be born clearly and measured, namely data. According to him, the speech of the Chairman of the BPK Isma Yatun shows that food data and information systems are not complete and not optimal, even between ministries have not been fully connected.
"At the same time, in the education sector, the Education Core Data (Dapodik) has indeed been improved through verification with population data, but it has not guaranteed the quality of data in its entirety throughout the cycle, from the stage of input to synchronization. At this point, the problem is more fundamental than just administrative technicalities. It touches on the way the state understands its people," said Azis.
"How can policy be targeted if the reality that it is based on itself is not intact? The country is like walking in a fog, making big decisions with limited vision. We are not lacking good intentions, but often lose accuracy. In fact, accuracy can only be born from accurate, complete, and interconnected data," he continued.
Therefore, Azis assessed, future development can no longer start from projects. But it must start from a fundamental decision: to unite data as the single foundation of state policy.
"From the data problem, we move to the next layer which is deeper and more subtle but has a wide impact: policy fragmentation. The BPK has unequivocally revealed cross-ministry and agency problems that are still fragmented. Even in human development, norms, standards, procedures, and criteria (NSPK) across the health and education sectors have not been fully established," said Azis.
"Here, the state seems to work in separate spaces. Ministries run with their agendas, state institutions with their programs, and local governments with their respective priorities, without a truly intact orchestration. The consequences are simple, but expensive: programs overlap, budgets flow without maximum efficiency, and results never really reach their best potential," added the member of Commission II of the DPR.
According to Azis, all parties, especially stakeholders, need to change their point of view. He emphasized that coordination is not enough to be interpreted as a meeting or meeting, but must be improved to become a policy integration. In addition, said Azis, the role of the coordinating ministry should not stop as an administrative liaison, but must be an architect who ensures that all parts of the country work in one big design.
"Without it, development will only be a series of activities, not a complete change. In this context, the food sector provides the most tangible picture. On the one hand, the achievement is worthy of appreciation: rice production in 2025 reached 34.71 million tons, an increase of 13.36 percent from the previous year, and the rice absorption policy managed to collect 3 million tons of rice reserves without imports. However, on the other hand, the BPK found that the planning for land extension and intensification has not fully considered the needs and suitability of land, and has not been synchronized with infrastructure support such as irrigation," he explained.
"Here is where the irony comes in: we talk about big targets, but the basic foundation is not yet fully solid. This is not just a technical issue, but a reflection of the way we design policies, setting targets too quickly, but not enough in understanding the conditions. In fact, the land can never be lied to. If development wants to succeed, it must learn to submit to reality. that every region has its own character, every land has its own limits, and every policy must be formulated not only with ambition, but with accuracy," continued Azis.
From food, said Azis, the problem continues to the health and education sectors, two fields that directly touch the quality of the Indonesian people. The BPK notes that health regulations are not yet fully harmonious, complete, and up-to-date, especially in supporting services in 3T and DTPK areas, including in the National Health Insurance scheme.
Meanwhile, in the education sector, Dapodik has not been able to provide reliable data to support timely and targeted policymaking.
"Here we see a recurring pattern: policies often come with a uniform approach, while the reality on the ground is actually diverse. Remote areas, border areas, and island regions have different challenges. But the state often comes up with the same design," said Azis.
"As a result, justice becomes lopsided, not because of a mistaken intention, but because of a design that is not sensitive enough," he added.
Therefore, according to Azis, in the future, regulation is not enough just to be neat on paper. But it must be flexible to the context, but still directed. "Standards must be clear, but not impose uniformity. That's where justice is really designed, not just declared," he said.
"When we go deeper into the energy sector, fertilizer, and SOEs, the problem changes shape, from policy design to management discipline," added Azis.
In addition, Azis highlighted the BPK which found that the reserves of fuel and LPG were not adequate in accordance with the National Energy Policy. In the fertilizer sector, inefficiencies at the ammonia plant of PT Pupuk Indonesia occurred due to the old age of the plant, suboptimal maintenance, and high downtime.
In the financial sector, weaknesses in credit supervision at SOEs have created potential losses, including on mortgages at BTN of IDR 707.18 billion. Even in the oil and gas sector, there are operating costs of IDR 2.44 trillion that should not be charged as cost recovery, as well as illegal drilling practices that burden the country up to IDR 1.71 trillion.
"If drawn to a single line, all of this shows the same thing: we are still too tolerant of inefficiency. And every tolerance is ultimately paid for by the people, through bloated subsidies, suboptimal services, and lost opportunities. Therefore, future development requires a cultural change in the country's work: from permissive to precision, from just running to being truly accountable. But in the end, there is one core part of the whole exposure: follow-up," he explained.
Azis added, from 2005 to 2025, the BPK has made 785,257 recommendations, with a completion rate of 80.5 percent. This means, he said, there is still a not small room where the recommendations have not been fully completed. In fact, out of the total state losses of Rp. 5.88 trillion that have been determined, there are still around Rp. 1.93 trillion that have not been resolved.
"At this point, the face of our governance looks like what it is. That the biggest challenge is not finding mistakes, but solving them to the end. And this is where the public has a role that cannot be ignored. (View) This is not meant to foster pessimism. Quite the contrary, it is an invitation to see development with a more complete maturity. That progress is not only measured by the number of programs, but by the neatness, honesty and accuracy in its management. That a strong state is not the busiest state, but the most coordinated," he said.
"And that public oversight is not just criticism, but part of a shared responsibility, so that every rupiah, every policy, and every program really reaches its goal. Maybe, in the future, we need to change one simple question: no longer, what has the state built,
"But, are all that are built connected, targeted, and really needed? Because in the end, the future of development is not determined by how fast we move, but rather how accurately we choose the direction," concluded Azis.
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