Paint, Sand, And Helmets Worth Billions In The DKI Provincial Government Budget

DKI Jakarta City Hall (Diah / VOI)

JAKARTA - DKI's odd budget submission was again found in the draft of the temporary budget priority-ceiling budget (KUA-PPAS) in 2020.

This budget was discovered by a member of the PDIP faction of the DKI DPRD Ima Mahdiah. Ima said, there were several components of the budget that did not make sense from the DKI Jakarta Education Agency.

The findings were the procurement of Rp.52.16 billion for sand, Rp.34.27 billion for project helmets, Rp.18.91 billion for wall paint, Rp.40.1 billion for thinner, Rp.19.78 billion for colored oil paint, and Rp.18.54 billion for clear glass.

"This budget goes into educational operational assistance (BOP), namely school props for the DKI Disdik. That means it is not for school rehabilitation. Why try sand, paint, thinner like this," said Ima when met at the DPRD DKI Building, Thursday (7 / 11/2019).

He obtained details of the components of this budget submission by asking directly to the regional work unit (SKPD) after discussion with Commission E DPRD DKI.

Ima doubted that the components he found were dummy or temporary. This is because the findings of the odd budget were combed from the new KUA-PPAS draft.

"We have already been given the PDF, but that is the KUA-PPAS draft which still has a total budget of Rp95 trillion. So, the findings of this budget are included in the KUA-PPAS which has been revised to Rp89 trillion. So I asked for an updated one, after we combed it, we found it. this is it, "explained Ima.

Ima admitted that the detailed discussion of the proposed budget components was carried out after the KUA-PPAS revision was ratified, then continued to discuss the draft APBD (RAPBD).

However, according to him, the DPRD needs to examine the components as soon as possible. Given, in one Commission, there are hundreds of thousands of components that must be examined so that no odd budget has the potential to escape discussion. Moreover, the APBD must be approved by the end of November.

"To discuss this, at least this was discussed during the RAPBD, only this was given to us first. They have already made activities but there are no components, because the reason is that they are new to activities, the components are not there yet. It's not possible," he concluded.