JAKARTA - The Ministry of Social Affairs denies accepting bribes from German management and business software maker SAP, who is suspected of possessing a number of officials in Indonesia from official information published by the United States Department of Justice.
"We have never received as an intermediary from the SAP, and we also do not feel that we are using the SAP. Until now we have checked in state property, the BMI list that we have was also one hour ago I re-checked, the SAP was not found," said Head of the Ministry of Social Data and Information Center Agus Zainal Arifin as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, January 16.
Agus said that since the leadership of the Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini, software development for almost three years has been carried out internally, or in-house.
The goal is to save the budget to overcome poverty, and to be able to have full control over the needs of future handling programs.
In line with this, the Special Staff of the Minister for Human Resources Development and Program of the Ministry of Social Affairs Suhadi Lili stated that the new officials are currently not in contact with the SAP issue.
It will also not hinder if there is a legal mechanism needed to handle the alleged case.
"So we want to emphasize that our work is quite isolated from the affairs mentioned as the bribery scandal," said Suhadi.
Suhadi explained that Pusdatin officials are currently only on duty in 2021. System or application policies require using an internal team (in-house), using a regular budget.
"In the period 2021 to 2023, all DTKS data improvement work and social assistance as well as the application system that supports it (SIKS-NG) no one buys or outsources to external parties. The budget used is a routine budget, so it requires us to be very efficient," said Suhadi.
The results of these improvements are the improvement of DTKS, the SIKS-NG application, the Cekbansos application, the Command Center & SIKS Mobile application, the SIKSGIS application for visual DTKS verification, and the SIKSMA application for the implementation of the food program.
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Pusdatin's budget profile from 2020 to 2023 is in the 2020 ceiling of IDR 150,551,268,000, the realization of 148,873,361,437 (98.89 percent). The 2021 ceiling (reallocation) is IDR 372,607,115,000, and the realization is IDR 243,996,743,871 (65.48 percent)
The 2022 ceiling is worth IDR 58,292,986,000, with a realization of IDR 49,251,939,094 (84.49 percent). The 2023 ceiling is IDR 72,200,801,000, with a realization of IDR 69,980,417,698 (96.92 percent).
For information, the SAP was fined IDR 3.4 trillion, because it was proven to give bribes in establishing cooperation contracts, including in Indonesia.
Citing the website of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, at least eight state-owned and ministry-owned enterprises are mentioned. Among them are the Telekomunikasi and Informatics Financing Provider (BP3TI) which is now called BAKTI Kominfo, Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Ministry of Social Affairs, PT Pertamina, DKI Regional Government, PT Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Jakarta, PT Angkasa Pura I, and PT Angkasa Pura II.
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