Support For Sri Mulyani, 59 Percent Of Community Agree To Establish BLBI Task Force

Members of the BLBI Task Force pose at the location of former BLBI property assets confiscated by the state (Photo: Doc. Ministry of Finance)

JAKARTA - The government's efforts to settle cases of debts from Bank Indonesia liquidity assistance (BLBI) worth a total of Rp110 trillion have received a positive response from the public. This is reflected in a national survey conducted by the Indonesian Political Indicators agency.

In its report, the Indicator states that the government's steps to form a BLBI task force to accelerate the settlement of state collection rights are appropriate.

"As many as 59.1 percent of the public agreed with the government to form the BLBI Task Force," said the Indicator release quoted by the editorial staff on Monday, January 10.

In fact, the broadcast also revealed convincing facts with 5.6 percent of respondents choosing the answer strongly agree.

Meanwhile, 6.6 percent took the option of not agreeing, 2.3 percent not agreeing at all, and 26.4 percent did not answer.

For information, the percentage results above are responses given by the public who are aware of the formation of the BLBI Task Force with a portion of 14.1 percent.

While the public who do not know or have never heard of the news of the formation of the BLBI Task Force are 85.9 percent.

As previously reported by VOI, the government, led by the Minister of Finance (Menkeu) Sri Mulyani, initiated the formation of the BLBI Task Force as the spearhead of the settlement of the case which had been stalled for more than 20 years.

Through cross-sectoral collaboration between ministries and institutions, Sri Mulyani and the team moved swiftly to hunt down debts from obligors and debtors who evaded central bank funds during the 1998 crisis.

Unmitigated, a number of big names in the country were also 'brushed' because they were deemed not to have fulfilled their obligations to repay debts to the state, ranging from Hutomo Mandala Putra alias Tommy Suharto to Setiawan Harjono who was none other than the besan of former DPR Speaker Setya Novanto.

In the last report of the BLBI Task Force on December 23, 2021, it was found that the team managed to seize Rp314 billion in fresh funds that came in as Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP).

Meanwhile, in the form of physical control, both property assets and delivery of collateral from obligors and debtors is 8.32 million square meters.

This amount does not include the confiscation of assets from the Texmaco Group on 587 parcels of land located in five locations, namely in Subang Regency, Sukabumi Regency, Pekalongan City, Batu City, and Padang City with a total area of 4.79 million square meters.