Chairman Of DPRD Surprised Anies Umbar Giving Political Party Funds: As If It Was An Initiative, Even Though This Is An Order From The Law

Chairman of the DKI Jakarta DPRD Prasetyo Edi Marsudi/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - The chairman of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Prasetyo Edi Marsudi, admitted that he was surprised by the Governor of DKI Anies Baswedan who indulged in providing financial assistance to 10 political parties by holding ceremonial events.

The problem, according to Prasetyo, is that the published ceremonial activities will lead to the assumption that this political party grant was handed over on the basis of Anies' initiative.

In fact, said the PDIP politician, financial assistance from the APBD for political parties is a mandate of the law whose implementation is routine every year.

Pras cites Article 12 Letter (k) of Law Number 2 of 2008 concerning Political Parties, where the regulation states that political parties have the right to obtain financial assistance from the APBN/APBD in accordance with statutory regulations.

"What is this? It's as if the financial assistance was the governor's initiative. No, this is an order from the law," Prasetyo told reporters, Friday, December 24.

Meanwhile, according to Prasetyo, until now Anies has not yet explained the details of the allocation for the use of the Formula E commitment fee payment along with the feasibility study.

"In fact, I am here as the chairman of the DPRD asking the governor to explain how the commitment fee funds for Formula E amounting to Rp560 billion from the regional budget are accountable to the public. Moreover, Jakarta is the only one who pays such a commitment fee," said Prasetyo.

Previously, Anies distributed financial assistance to political parties for the 2021 fiscal year. The allocation of political party funds from the 2021 APBD reached IDR 27 billion or IDR 27,255,145,000.

The amount of aid funds for each party in the legislature is calculated from Rp. 5,000 times the number of votes obtained by the political parties in the legislative elections.

In DKI, PDIP received the most political party funds, which was around Rp. 6.6 billion. Followed by Gerindra which received Rp4.6 billion in funds, PKS Rp4.5 billion, PSI Rp2 billion, Democrats Rp1.9 billion, PAN Rp1.8 billion, Nasdem Rp1.5 billion, PKB Rp1.5 billion, Golkar Rp1.5 billion , and PPP Rp.884 million.