Jakarta Provincial Government Admits Asset Management Has Not Been Maximum

Illustration of the DKI Jakarta Provincial City Hall (DKI Provincial Government)

Acting Head of the Regional Asset Management Agency, Lusiana Herawati, admitted that the DKI Provincial Government has not been able to optimally manage government-owned assets. In fact, many assets are recorded in each regional work unit (SKPD).

Meanwhile, Lusiana admitted that her party had asked the Regional Secretary (Sekda) to issue a Circular (SE) to the SKPD to hand over unused assets to BPAD since 2022.

"So we can use and optimize the assets for cooperation. But it didn't go the way we expected," Lusi was quoted as saying on Thursday, November 14.

For this, Lusi promised to re-socialize the policy for the optimal assets of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government.

"In the future, we will start socializing again to SKPDs. For example, in the KPKP Office, there are many assets that can be optimized, but not recorded in BPAD," said Lusi.

Previously, the Chairman of Commission C of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Dimaz Raditya, urged that assets belonging to SKPD not be used to be given to BPAD. The goal is that these assets can be used or cooperated with outsiders to increase local revenue (PAD).

"Instead of unused assets in the service, it is better to give authority to BPAD to find partners. So it is useful," said Dimas in a working meeting with the DKI Provincial Government, Wednesday, November 13.

Continuing, Member of Commission C Josephine Simanjuntak also hopes that the assets belonging to the DKI Provincial Government that have not been used will be used for the benefit of the community. One of them departed from the proposal from the residents of Jatinegara Kaum who asked for health and education service facilities to be made in the unused provincial government land assets.

"In Jatinegara Kaum there is unused provincial government land about 6,000 meters. So they hope to establish a more adequate Puskesmas facility," explained Josephine.

"People also ask to build public junior high schools and high schools because they don't exist there. So they have difficulty registering with the zoning system," he added.