The Jember Regional Representative Council COVID-19 Special Committee Explains The Bad Performance Of The Faida Regent's Task Force

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JEMBER - The Jember Regional Representative Council (DPRD) COVID-19 Special Committee, East Java presented four findings of the poor performance of the COVID-19 Task Force in 2020. The presentation was delivered at an internal plenary meeting of the Jember DPRD, East Java.

"There are four conclusions that we conveyed in today's internal plenary meeting based on surprise inspections and hearings held over the past few weeks", said Jember DPRD COVID-19 Special Committee Chair David Handoko Seto, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, June 22.

The first conclusion is the lack of public information disclosure regarding the performance of the Jember COVID-19 Task Force. The Task Force seems to have deliberately closed itself off regarding budgeting and the use of the COVID-19 budget.

As a result, the administration of the people's money budget under the Faida Regent's administration went badly

Second, there were 1.223 units of aid tents planned for market merchants affected by the disease outbreak caused by the coronavirus and thousands of folding tents purchased using the COVID-19 Task Force budget of IDR 1.2 billion.

"The tent is stalled in a warehouse owned by the Metrology Agency on Jalan Trunojoyo, even in the procurement process without going through a partner and buying directly at one of the outlets in the shopping center", he said.

Third, the problem that remains until now is that the sink procurement partners of IDR 34.8 billion have not been paid to 174 companies.

"Fourth, there is a budget of IDR 107 billion which was concluded by Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia (BPK) that it could potentially not be accounted for, so we recommend to the BPK or law enforcement officials to be more serious about dismantling the use of the COVID-19 budget", he said.

David said the COVID-19 Special Committee has encouraged the BPK and law enforcement officials to step up to a higher level of examination, namely conducting an investigative audit.

For this reason, he continued, the Special Committee requested an extension of time because the current conditions for COVID-19 in Jember had not been completed and had the potential to increase, and there were still many irregularities that had not been revealed regarding the many budget uses that were not accompanied by an accountability letter (SPJ).