There's An Overpayment Of Rp6.5 Billion From The Purchase Of Damkar DKI Tools

Dki City Hall (Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Audit Board of Finance (BPK) dki revealed an overpayment in the purchase of fire extinguishers by the Fire and Rescue Service (Gulkarmat) DKI.

Based on the financial report of dki provincial government in the period 2019, BPK found four packages of fire car procurement funds with expenses that exceeded the price of the tool. The total overpayment was recorded at around Rp6.5 billion.

The details, the submersible unit has a real price of Rp9 billion, the contract value is Rp9.7 billion, then the difference is Rp761 million. Then the quick response unit with a real price of Rp36.2 billion, the contract value of Rp 39.6 billion, then the difference of Rp3.4 billion

Furthermore, the fire management unit in mass transportation facilities with a real price of Rp7 billion, the contract value of Rp 7.8 billion, the difference is Rp844 million. then, the fire material decomposition unit, the real price of Rp32 billion, the contract value of Rp33 billion, the difference is Rp1 billion.

This was also highlighted by members of the PSI Faction of the DKI August Hamonangan Dprd. According to August, the overpayment should be used to conduct other procurement such as hundreds of self-service hydrants.

"The Provincial Government of Dki Jakarta is very careless and not transparent in managing people's money. No wonder there is still an awkward budget and finesse like this fire car, the difference of billions of rupiah should be able to finance an independent hydrant that is more useful for residents," August said in his statement, Tuesday, April 13.

August also mentioned that the Provincial Government of Dki Jakarta failed to draw up budget priorities. Because, DKI prioritizes the purchase of expensive firefighting robots that are difficult to use to overcome fires in Jakarta.

In fact, the budget can be used to prioritize the procurement of self-hydrants and training skkl or volunteer fire suppression more needed.

"For fire events the speed becomes the main key, the sooner the fire is extinguished, the less risk can be reduced," he said.