The Actions Of The BLBI Task Force Are Considered Inevitable, Many Naughty Obligors' Assets Are Not Confiscated

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JAKARTA - A number of parties assess that the performance of the Task Force for Handling State Claims for the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance Fund (BLBI) is not effective and has not been optimal in collecting the obligations of rogue obligors. In the remaining time of service, the BLBI Task Force is asked to act decisively against obligors who have not fulfilled their obligations to the state.

For example, member of Commission XI DPR Kamrussamad who assessed that the BLBI Task Force acted double standards in dealing with rogue obligors. This Gerindra Party politician, for example, highlighted the performance of the Task Force against the owners of Bank Tamara, namely Lidia Muchtar and Atang Latief, who received BI liquidation assistance about 25 years ago. However, until now the two people have not fulfilled their obligations to the state.

"So, for people who do not receive BLBI, the Task Force is firm. However, to the owners of Bank Tamara, namely Lidia Muchtar and Atang Latief, the actions of the Task Force are not measurable, even though they received BLBI," Kamrussamad said in a public discussion about the performance of the BLBI Task Force held by the Indonesian Journalist of Law in Jakarta, Saturday July.

In addition, the Gerindra Party politician said, the performance of the BLBI Task Force during its tenure was ineffective. The proof is that in the BLBI Task Force report to Commission XI, the obligor obligations that were successfully collected were only around Rp. 30.65 trillion until the end of last May. This realization is equivalent to around 27.75 percent of the target of Rp. 110.45 trillion.

Therefore, Kamrussamad encouraged the BLBI Task Force for the remaining time to work immediately to take firm action, including confiscating the assets of obligors who fulfill their obligations to the state. Another firm action, according to Kamrussamad, to the rogue obligors by stopping state services to 3 derivatives of the BLBI direct recipients.

'Children, grandchildren to grandchildren from BLBI recipients, look at the documents. They have NPWP, NIK and other documents and then announced to the public so that they have a good will to pay their obligations," said Kamrussamad.

In the same discussion, economic researcher from Indef Nailul Huda added, based on his calculations, there were around Rp. 81.6 trillion that had not been billed. And, this has an impact on the lost economy (GDP) of around Rp. 125 trillion.

Still referring to Huda's records, public income also lost around Rp124 trillion and indirect tax revenue lost around Rp340 billion and the workforce was not absorbed by 1.37 million people.

Meanwhile, from the undisbursed arrears of Bank Tamara, the economic impact (GDP) was lost amounting to Rp594.9 billion, public income of Rp531 billion, indirect tax revenue of Rp1.4 billion and unabsorbed labor of around 5,820 people, "said Huda.

The founder of Lokataru as well as legal practitioner Haris Azhar agrees with Kamrussamad's opinion about the ineffective performance of the BLBI Task Force. According to Haris, these obligors are smart people and are close to power, so many of their assets have changed their names.

"As their business people (obligors) this is agile, that's why the BLBI Task Force must have a 'cooky' who can smell the assets of the obligor who has switched. Otherwise, the state will always lose to them (obligors)," said Haris at the same event.