KPK Receives 118 Bansos Reports, East Java Receives Most Complaints

Illustrated (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) received 118 complaints or public reports regarding the distribution of social assistance (bansos) in the midst of the coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak. The East Java Provincial Government received the most complaints.

Acting KPK spokesman for Prevention Ipi Maryati said that the most common complaints were that the reporter did not receive assistance even though he had already registered. The incoming reports related to this were 54 reports.

In addition, continued Ipi, there were six other complaint topics that were also submitted by the complainants, such as the amount of funds received was less than it should have been, namely 13 reports.

"Assistance was not distributed by the apparatus to aid recipients as many as 10 reports, no names on the aid list (fictitious recipients) totaled 8 reports, received more than one aid amounting to 3 reports, and assistance received was of poor quality 1 report," he said, written received by VOI, Saturday, June 5.

Not only that, Ipi revealed, there were also people who reported that they should not receive assistance but received 1 report, and various other topics with a total of 28 reports.

Ipi explained that the report was addressed to 78 local governments (Pemda) consisting of 7 provincial governments and 71 district / city governments. Meanwhile, the agencies that received the most complaints were the East Java Provincial Government and the Indramayu Regency Government, each with 5 reports.

"Followed by Tangerang Regency Government and Bandung Regency Government, each with 4 reports. Meanwhile, North Aceh Regency Government and Subang Regency Government each received 3 reports. The rest received 1 report each," he explained.

Ipi said that this report was received by the KPK through the JAGA Bansos application. This application responds to the lack of follow-up by the Regional Government on the KPK's appeal to provide a means of public complaints regarding the distribution of social assistance to communities affected by COVID-19.

Apart from being a medium for accommodating public complaints about irregularities or misuse of social assistance in the field, this new JAGA feature also provides brief guide information about social assistance as education.

Complaints or reports that go to JAGA Bansos, said Ipi, will then be submitted by the KPK to the relevant regional governments. This information from the public is forwarded through the Regional Coordination Unit (Korwil) for the prevention of the KPK, which provides assistance and supervision in improving local government governance in 34 provinces, including 542 regional governments. Then, the KPK will monitor the follow-up on the resolution of these public reports and complaints.

"The KPK encourages the involvement and active role of the community to participate in monitoring and conveying information in the event of irregularities in the distribution of social assistance. Hopefully, this joint supervision can improve the social assistance distribution mechanism and ensure that people affected during the pandemic get their rights," he said.

Ipi said that the public can submit their complaints directly through their devices by downloading the JAGA (JAGA Apps) application on the Play store and the App store for the android or iOs operating system. Apart from using gadgets, the public can also access JAGA through the https://jaga.id site.