25 ASN In Lampung Indicated To Receive Social Assistance, There Is A Sanction Threat From Minister Tjahjo

Residents show cash social assistance money or BST after taking it at a Bank DKI ATM (ANTARA FOTO/Rivan Awal Lingga/foc)

JAKARTA - The Lampung Province Social Service confirmed that there are state civil servants (ASN) in their area who are indicated to be registered as receiving social assistance.

"25 ASN were indeed summoned by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) due to indications of receiving social assistance", said Head of the Lampung Province Social Service, Aswarodi, in Bandarlampung, Monday, November 22, quoted from Antara.

25 ASN people have been registered in the Integrated Social Welfare Data (DTKS) and some are not registered because they are included in the new poor data.

"For some of these people, they received social assistance in the type of Cash Social Assistance (BST) of IDR 300 thousand, and based on existing records, the average was from Bandarlampung City", he said.

According to him, to anticipate that this will not happen again, his party will continue to carry out verification and validation repeatedly.

"Based on the existing regulations, it is the responsibility of the district and city, so that it doesn't happen again, we carry out supervision in the form of verification and validation repeatedly in districts and cities so that they are always careful", he said.

He explained that the sanctions that will be given to the ASN have not been determined because they are still waiting for the report on the results of the examination by the Supreme Audit Agency.

"We are still waiting for the BPK's Examination Result Report (LHP) because sanctions are not our authority", he said.

He continued, steps to routinely verify data will continue to be carried out to prevent repeated incidents.

"Regular verification and validation will continue to be carried out to minimize similar things from happening because DTKS has several requirements", he said.

Aswarodi said there were several criteria for receiving social assistance, namely that most of the floors of the residences were made of earth, most of the walls were made of bamboo, wire, or wood, then ownership of urination or defecation facilities, and lighting sources from electricity from the state electricity company 450 watts or non-electricity.

Previously, the Ministry of Social Affairs noted that there were 31,624 state civil apparatus (ASN) in Indonesia indicated to receive social assistance.

Meanwhile, the total recipients of social assistance in Lampung for the Cash Social Assistance (BST) program amounted to 224,688 beneficiary families (KPM) with the realization reaching 100 percent or if converted, it was around IDR 134,817,600,000.

Previously, the Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) Tjahjo Kumolo said that there were no specific rules for employees of the state civil apparatus (ASN) being prohibited from receiving social assistance. However, basically, ASN employees are government employees who have a fixed income.

If it is proven that the civil servant concerned has committed an act that includes abuse of authority to gain personal and/or other people's benefit, the employee concerned may be given disciplinary punishment by Government Regulation no. 94/2021 concerning Civil Servant Discipline.