Planning To Sell 26 Thousand Square Meters Of Regional Asset Land, This Is An Explanation From The Bandar Lampung City Government

Head of BPKAD Bandar Lampung City M Nur Ramdhan when giving information to the media crew. Bandar Lampung, Friday, (15/9/2023). (ANTARA/Dian Hadiyatna)

LAMPUNG - Bandar Lampung City Government (Pemkot) explained the plan to sell regional assets as a source of revenue for Regional Original Revenue (PAD) whose issue has become a wild ball in the community.

"What needs to be known is that our plan to sell assets within the KUA-PPAS has been met and discussed with DPRD members," said Head of the Regional Financial and Asset Management Agency (BPKAD) of Bandarlampung City, M Nur Ramdhan, in Bandar Lampung, Friday, September 15, confiscated by Antara.

He said that in a few days of discussion with members of the Bandar Lampung City DPRD, it was concluded that the plan to sell regional assets could be accepted and included in the General Budget Policy (KUA) and the Priority of the Temporary Budget Ceiling (PPAS) for the Revised Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD) 2023.

"So the sale of regional assets is legal to do, and indeed every year we also include it in the PPAS APBD KUA and communicate it first with the DPRD," he said.

Ramdhan emphasized that local governments are allowed to sell regional assets based on the Regulation of the Minister of Home Affairs Number 77 of 2020 concerning Technical Guidelines for Regional Financial Management.

"Sales of assets are one of the sources of PAD apart from taxes, levies, separated regional assets, and other regional income," he said.

However, he emphasized that the sale of regional assets was only a plan included in the PPAS PPAS APBD Amendment and this was not necessarily realized.

"That's just the government's plan if, for example, it turns out that later there will be a need for large funds that are not fulfilled by incomes outside of selling assets," he said.

In fact, he continued, every year the city government sells regional assets, ranging from vehicles, machinery, land, to building demolition materials.

"Every year there must be sales of assets. There are many types and most of them have been auctioned and sold, some have not," he said.

It is known that the Bandar Lampung City Government has included eight unproductive land locations with a total area of 26,000 square meters which are regional assets and are planned to be sold to support PAD with a projected revenue of more than Rp385 billion.