PWNU DKI's Spicy Innuendo To 'Stingy' Anies Gives Grant Funds: There Are Institutions Use It For Honorary Management But Many Are Given

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JAKARTA - Chairman of the Jakarta PWNU Tanfidziyah, Syamsul Ma'arif criticized the way the DKI Provincial Government allocates grant funds. There are religious institutions that use grant funds for the needs of the management, even though they are given a lot.

Previously, Deputy Chairperson of Commission E from the DKI Jakarta DPRD from the PSI faction, Anggara Wicitra Sastroamidjojo, sneered at the disparity in the amount of grants between religious organizations from the DKI Provincial Government.

"If we look at the design, the Jakarta PWNU grants worth IDR 2.07 billion and the Jakarta Muhammadiyah PWs worth IDR 1.89 billion are very lame compared to for example the Jakarta MUI amounting to IDR 10.6 billion," said Anggara.

Anggara assesses that NU and Muhammadiyah need adequate funding because they have many branch organizations such as Islamic boarding schools, madrasas, schools, universities, clinics, and hospitals. Therefore, even though they have received funding from the state budget, their needs are indeed many.

Anggara believes that in addition to considering the benefits for the community, proportionality must also be a concern.

Back to Syamsul Ma'arif. According to him, the administrators really don't want to bother the DKI Provincial Government regarding the 2022 grant which is being discussed at the DKI DPRD.

"Even if we can, we will help the DKI Government in building and solving Jakarta's many problems," he told reporters, Friday, November 5.

It's just that Anies's office should understand more about the issue of granting funds. This is because the provision of grants for religious institutions and mass organizations should be based on the activities of these religious institutions.

"Pak Anies knows which institutions have a lot of activities in order to participate in helping local governments. So far, it must be admitted that the DKI Regional Government is still carelessly providing grant funds, especially for mass organizations," said Syamsul.

Syamsul said, Anies should have dared to provide grant assistance based on the real needs of the mass organizations in a fair and proportionate manner. Moreover, it is not a difficult problem for DKI to be able to check it, including viewing reports on activities and the use of grant funds.

"Frankly, there are religious institutions that use grant funds for the purposes of honorariums for management, but every year they are still given grants ten times that of other mass organizations which are really busy with activities," he said.