The Corruption Eradication Commission, The Capital City Formed By Anies Baswedan.

Illustration-DKI Damkar Car (Photo: DOK ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency (FITRA), Misbah Hasan, highlighted the performance of the Jakarta Provincial Government's internal budget oversight such as the Inspectorate and TGUPP in the Capital City Corruption Prevention Committee (KPK).

This is related to the overpayment of the purchase of a fire car from an audit by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) in the DKI budget. According to Misbah, TGUPP should be able to prevent overpayment.

"This is the task of APIP or the inspectorate, the internal supervisor. With this case and the possibility of other similar cases, it indicates that APIP's performance is not optimal. The performance of the Capital City Corruption Eradication Commission is also questionable," explained Misbah when contacted by VOI, Monday, April 19.

Overpayment usually occurs because the goods procurement process does not comply with the standard price for goods set by the DKI Provincial Government.

In fact, every year the DKI Provincial Government is obliged to make a standard price of goods as a reference for the procurement of goods / services budgeted in the regional revenue and expenditure budget (APBD).

If this budget escapes examination, according to Misbah, the potential for corruption will occur there.

"Procurement of goods of this kind is one of the loopholes of corruption that often occurs. Especially if this kind of case escapes the BPK examination, considering that the BPK examination is a sampling test. So not all financial transactions are examined by the BPK," said Misbah.

Previously, the Jakarta Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) revealed that there was an overpayment for the purchase of fire extinguishers by the DKI Jakarta Fire and Rescue Agency (Gulkarmat).

Based on the 2019 DKI Provincial Government financial reports, the BPK found four packages of funds for the procurement of fire engines with expenses that exceed the price of the equipment. The total overpayment was recorded at around IDR 6.5 billion.

The details, the submersible unit has a real price of Rp. 9 billion, a contract value of Rp. 9, 7 billion, then the difference is Rp. 761 million. Then the quick response unit with a real price of IDR 36.2 billion, a contract value of IDR 39.6 billion, then the difference is IDR 3.4 billion.

Furthermore, fire fighting units in mass transportation facilities with a real price of Rp. 7 billion, a contract value of Rp. 7.8 billion, the difference is Rp. 844 million. Then, the unit for decomposing fire materials, the real price is IDR 32 billion, the contract value is IDR 33 billion, the difference is IDR 1 billion.

Later, Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta, Ahmad Riza Patria, said that 90 percent of the overpaid has been returned. However, there is still 10 percent that has not been paid.