LKPP Catalog Version 6 Must Be Used By Government Agencies, Can Detect Odd Procurement

Head of LKPP Hendrar Prihadi (DOK Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Goods and Services Procurement Policy Institute (LKPP) has issued the latest electronic catalog, namely version 6 (V6) to be used in the process of procuring spending on ministries, institutions, and local governments.

Head of LKPP Hendrar Prihadi or who is familiarly called Hendi emphasized that the V6 catalog must be used by all government agencies starting this year, according to President Prabowo Subianto's instructions.

"The President yesterday at the time of the distribution of DIPA officially launched the V6 catalog and required all local governments, ministries, institutions to be able to use the V6 catalog starting January 1, 2025," said Hendi at the LKPP Office, South Jakarta, Friday, January 3.

In terms of goods/service procurement transactions, as of January 1, the number of broadcasts of version 6 electronic catalog products has reached 3.5 million products consisting of 2.9 million integrated products and 615 thousand curated broadcast products. Hendi hopes that all government devices will quickly adapt to using the V6 catalog.

"The President has ordered it. There are already around 3.5 million products that have migrated from version 5 to version 6. We hope that the others can follow soon. Our maximum target is March 20, yes, March 20, all of them have entered the catalog version 6," he said.

Continuing, Deputy for Digital Procurement Transformation of LKPP Patria Susantosa revealed the difference in the V5 and V6 catalogs. In this version, the procurement process to transactions carried out by government agencies is end-to-end, ranging from ordering, contracting, shipping, to payments are on one platform and dashboard.

So, according to him, the V6 catalog can identify the procurement of goods and services of a government agency that is odd or anomalous.

"There is an e-audit feature. So if there is an anomaly transaction, which is not natural, for example, to buy it to him continuously, it's all tracking, 100 percent it can be traced. There is an alert to the inspectorate. So the inspectorate should act," said Patria.

For the record, government spending for the 2024 fiscal year reached IDR 1,259.2 trillion or the equivalent of 108.41 percent of the total procurement expenditure for goods and services (PBJ).

The contribution of PBJ's budget realization to domestic products (GDP) reached Rp595.66 trillion or 90 percent of PBJ's contribution to micro, small and cooperative enterprises (MSMEs) reached Rp277.42 trillion or 41.9 percent.