JAKARTA - The leadership of Commission IX of the DPR strongly rebuked the Head of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN) Dadan Hindayana for immediately asking for an additional IDR 28.6 trillion to the Ministry of Finance for the implementation of Free Nutrition Food (MBG). The reason is, before asking the Ministry of Finance, BGN must first submit the addition to the DPR.
The warning was conveyed by the leadership of Commission IX of the DPR in a meeting to evaluate BGN's program and budget implementation at the DPR building, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday, November 12.
"Sir, this is what we need to clarify before asking the Ministry of Finance, sir, to us (DPR) first, sir. Before asking the Ministry of Finance to us first, because of our budget function, sir. The Ministry of Finance brought a letter from our approval, sir," said Deputy Chairman of Commission IX DPR from the PKB faction, Nihayatul Wafiroh.
Nihayatul gave an example of the Ministry of Manpower who had to send a request for a work meeting during the DPR recess, only to get approval for additional budget to be sent to the Ministry of Finance.
"So for example, when it was from the Ministry of Manpower that we suddenly had a meeting during the recess, sir. That was us during the recess, we scheduled a meeting because it was the last day before they submitted it to the Ministry of Finance, sir. So we have to go to us first, sir," said Nihayatul.
"Well, I think this is Mr. Dadan, there must be a team that knows very well that this process is like this, sir. This must be up to us first, sir. If you want to submit this, today you can tell our team that one of the agendas is approval for additional budget, that's it. The mechanism is like that. The application for additional budget here. We have only agreed here to go to the Ministry of Finance, sir. That's it, sir. So it's not the other way around, sir," he continued.
Deputy Chairman of Commission IX of the DPR from the Gerindra faction, Putih Sari then questioned BGN if the additional budget submission was rejected by the Ministry of Finance because there was no recommendation from the DPR. Therefore, he reminded BGN to follow the mechanism for submitting the state budget.
"We are worried that it will be rejected if there is no approval from commission IX, you submit an additional budget. I question what kind of team, yes. I don't understand the discussion of the state budget mechanism, I think. So we should first ask for approval from us, then you submit it to the Ministry of Finance, that's the right flow," said Putih.
Responding to criticism from the leadership of Commission IX of the DPR, Dadan stated that BGN would submit it to the DPR. He did not know if the budget submission flow was reversed.
"Well then, later we will submit a request for submission. I think we will submit it immediately, after from here we will write a letter to commission IX to submit a budget so that this week we can also discuss related to it, hopefully facilitated by commission IX," he said.
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