DKI DPRD Soroti Planning of OPD Amburadul, Program Molor Picu SiLPA

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JAKARTA - The B Commission of the DKI Jakarta DPRD highlighted the weakness of the procurement of goods and services in a number of local government agencies (OPD). The planning, which is considered immature, makes a number of programs late in running until triggering the emergence of the Surplus of the Budget Calculation (SiLPA).

Chairman of Commission B of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Nova Harivan Paloh, said that the problem was seen from the still finding of excess payments in the Financial Audit Report (LHP) of the Financial Audit Agency (BPK) which resulted in the obligation to return funds to the regional treasury.

Nova assessed that the main problem lies in the planning stage of the program, which does not take into account the implementation time and the procurement process for goods and services.

"The problem of goods and services, there are several SKPD that have excess payments or their time frame cannot be achieved," Nova said on Thursday, June 18.

According to Nova, this condition causes a number of programs not to run optimally even though they have been designed since the beginning of the budget year. One of the highlights is the construction of the Jakarta Souvenir Center which is considered to have a fairly mature planning, but the implementation is actually carried out near the end of the year.

As a result, the target for completing work is difficult to achieve and has the potential to affect the quality and effectiveness of budget use.

"Well, this is how the planning was at the beginning," he said.

Although criticizing the planning aspect, Nova still appreciates the level of absorption of the OPD budget of the Commission B partner, which has reached an average of around 90 percent throughout the 2025 budget year.

However, he reminded that the high absorption of the budget was not enough to measure the success of the program implementation. The OPD also needs to ensure the efficiency of budget use and the accuracy of the volume of work done.

Commission B asked each OPD to be more careful in preparing the auction schedule, calculating the readiness of the program implementation, and adjusting the work target to the available time so as not to re-emerge budget returns at the end of the year.