There Is An Excess Of Paying To Buy A Fire-fighting Car, Anies's Men Claim 90 Percent Of Money Has Been Returned

ILLUSTRATION/Simulation of damkar robot (Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - The head of the Fire and Rescue Service (Gulkarmat) DKI Satriadi Gunawan opened the voice about the procurement of fire car purchases paid more than the price of goods in his office.

About that, Satriadi claimed that his party had returned 90 percent of the overpayment of IDR6.5 billion. However, Satriadi was reluctant to mention how much money was returned.

"The development, 90 percent we have returned. (Nominally) you can count, do not know", Satriadi told reporters, Wednesday, April 14.

According to Satriadi, the purchase of firefighting cars that they bought in 2019 is quite useful to tackle fires in the capital. For example, robotic fire engines and LUF 60 cars.

"The robotics that we bought, twice in action in the same Taman Sari Apartment fire in Pasar Minggu. Sari garden apartment. If there is no robotics, 113 residents in Taman Sari could have that impact. Alhamdulillah, we have LUF 60, we go into the tunnel, there is a transformer below we can extinguish", he said.

Previously, 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 the 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 IDR6.5 billion.

The details, the submersible unit has a real price of IDR9 billion, the contract value is IDR9.7 billion, then the difference is IDR761 million. Then the quick response unit with a real price of IDR36.2 billion, the contract value of IDR 39.6 billion, then the difference of IDR3.4 billion

Furthermore, the fire management unit in mass transportation facilities with a real price of IDR7 billion, the contract value of IDR 7.8 billion, the difference is IDR844 million. then, the fire material decomposition unit, the real price of IDR32 billion, the contract value of IDR33 billion, the difference is IDR1 billion.

This was also highlighted by members of the PSI Faction DPRD of the DKI August Hamonangan. 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", said August.