KPK Feels The Need To Assist In The Management Of The West Papua Regional Government's Special Autonomy Fund

Illustrated (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) emphasizes the importance of assisting and supervising the governance of local governments (Pemda) in the West Papua region so that users of special autonomy funds run optimally.

"Improving the welfare of the people in the West Papua region through improving the quality of the management of special autonomy funds so that the local government must be accompanied and supervised," said Dian Patria, chairman of the KPK Regional V Prevention Supervision Coordination Task Force, in Manokwari, as reported by Antara, Saturday, June 5.

He said that the KPK korsup contained eight local government indicators, namely budget planning, PBJ, permits, APIP, ASN management, regional revenues, assets, and village funds.

For the KPK this indicator is an entry point for reading a local government. If the score is low it is usually not just a technical problem, but sectoral ego and lack of communication.

On the achievement of the score, he concluded, the main thing is the integrity of the leadership. That any system that is built must be accompanied by leadership with integrity.

"So speaking of the Monitoring Center for Prevention or MCP in 2020 the average score for 14 local governments in West Papua is 37.40 or below the national average," he said.

Unable to compete with other regions. For us it's not a big problem. The important thing is to be active and open. Tell the problem and then we will discuss together for a solution," he said.

He said that one of the focuses of the KPK's assistance in the regions with the regional government was the special autonomy fund, tax revenues considering that in Papua and West Papua the fiscal capacity is low. Not to mention the number of non-compliance by business actors.

“So in terms of assisting local governments, we don't want to be trapped in administrative matters and busy with ceremonial matters so that we forget about the substantive. So it must be based on the facts on the ground,” he said.