Revealed! It Turns Out That Anies Baswedan Has Been In Debt To A Bank To Pay Formula E

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan (Photo: DKI Jakarta Public Relations)

JAKARTA - A power of attorney is circulating from the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan to the Head of the DKI Youth and Sports Agency (Dispora) to apply for a regional loan to the bank to organize Formula E. The power of attorney was signed on August 21, 2019.

The day after the power of attorney was issued, Dispora DKI submitted a debt to Bank DKI in the amount of 10 million pounds or Rp180 billion to pay the first term commitment fee.

Deputy Chairperson of Commission E of the DKI DPRD from the PSI faction, Anggara Wicitra Sastroamidjojo, admitted that he was surprised that the debt that Anies had proposed was only for the sake of the Formula E event.

"This is the first time that a governor has defended his debt to hold a car race, not for urgent matters such as paying employee salaries or dealing with floods," Anggara told reporters, Monday, November 8.

The irony, said Anggara, was that in the same year, Anies canceled the Rp160 billion river normalization land acquisition budget on the grounds of a budget deficit.

Actually, at the end of 2019, Anggara said the DKI Water Resources Service was ready to pay for land acquisition for 118 plots of land on the banks of the Ciliwung River.

The land acquisition for normalization is located in the Kelurahan Pejaten Timur, Tanjung Barat, Cililitan, and Balekambang. The total budget is Rp160 billion.

The payment is just waiting for the governor's decision (kepgub) regarding the determination of the location (location) to be released. However, the land acquisition was eventually canceled entirely on the pretext of a budget deficit.

"On December 30, 2019, Dispora paid the second term of £10 million or Rp180 billion using the APBD, so that the total deposited was Rp360 billion," said Anggara.

"Meanwhile, the budget for land acquisition for the normalization of the Ciliwung River of Rp160 billion was instead canceled. This shows that Governor Anies is more concerned with car racing events than dealing with floods," he added.