Even Though Anies Wins 5 Times WTP Opinion, BPK Still Finds Excess Paying For DKI Provincial Government

Plenary submission of the audit report on the financial statements of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government for the 2021 fiscal year/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government under the leadership of DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan won an Unqualified Opinion (WTP) from the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) on its financial statements.

This WTP predicate is the fifth time that it can be maintained in a row from 2017 to 2021 or as long as Anies is in office.

Despite receiving the WTP predicate, it turns out that BPK still found a number of overpayments from the expenditure side in the results of an examination of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government's financial statements for the 2021 fiscal year.

This was conveyed by the Head of the DKI Jakarta BPK Representative, Dede Sukarjo, at the plenary meeting of the submission of the audit report on the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government's financial statements for the 2021 fiscal year.

"On the spending side, BPK found several problems, including excess salaries/regional work allowances and TPP of Rp.4.17 billion, shortage of collection and deposit of BPJS Health and employment of Rp.13.53 billion," said Dede at the DKI Jakarta DPRD building, Tuesday, May 31.

"Then, the overpayment for goods and services expenditures amounted to Rp3.13 billion and the overpayment for the implementation of work that was not in accordance with the contract was Rp3.52 billion," he continued.

In addition, from the side of regional cash management, BPK also found the use of cash accounts and escrow accounts that had no legal basis and without going through the approval process of the Regional Financial Management Agency (BPKD).

"In connection with this problem, BPK recommends that the remaining funds in the escrow account be immediately transferred to the regional treasury account according to the stipulated time limit," said Dede.

Then, on the revenue side, BPK found a weakness in the process of determining and collecting local taxes which resulted in a shortage of local tax revenues.

Furthermore, in asset management, BPK also found a number of problems, including the lack of fulfillment of building floor coefficient (KLB) obligations, double recording of fixed assets, fixed assets whose status has not been determined, and fixed assets whose whereabouts are unknown.

In terms of assets, BPK also found that there were records of inventory cards that were not up to date, misclassification of fixed assets, land assets controlled by third parties, land in dispute, 3,110 parcels of land not yet certified, and utilization of fixed assets by third parties not supported by work agreements. same.