Funding Unclear, Ferdinand Calls Anies Baswedan 'Edden' Drains DKI Regional Budget To Hold Formula E

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan when meeting Formula E CEO Alejandro Agag in New York (Photo: Instagram @aniesbaswedan)

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has issued Governor's Instruction (Ingub) Number 49 of 2021 concerning the Settlement of Regional Priority Issues for 2021-2022. Anies instructed the DKI Jakarta Regional Secretary to carry out the resolution of priority issues in 2021-2022.

One of the issues on the list is the implementation of Formula E. Anies gave a target for the electric car racing event to be realized in the middle of next year. "The holding of the Formula E competition with a target time of June 2022," Anies wrote in the instruction.

Former Democrat Party politician Ferdinand Hutahaean also shared his opinion on Anies' target. Based on BPK's findings, according to Ferdinand, there is no clarity regarding this Formula E funding.

"The findings of @bpkri state that there is NO CLARITY FUNDING FOR Formula E. Even though 2019-2020 uses the APBD which should not be allowed,"

"So June 2022 Formula E Ingub is just an illusion to buy time for legal matters. Ehh, don't you collect overpaid funds to pay for it? Wow, I'm getting suspicious," Ferdinand quipped through his Twitter account, @FerdinandHaean3 quoted Tuesday, August 10.

Departing from this, Ferdinand assessed that the realization of the implementation of Formula E in June 2022 was impossible.

"From the reality, it is very unlikely that Formula E can run in June 2022. Unless @aniesbaswedan and the DKI DPRD are both crazy to spend another 1.5 trillion in the APBD to FORCING THE POLITICAL DESIRE of this race. state loss," said Ferdinand.

@bpkri's findings state that there is NO CLEARANCE OF FUNDING FOR Formula E. Even though 2019-2020 uses the APBD which should not be allowed. So the Ingub Formula E June 2022 is just an illusion to buy time for legal matters. Hey, don't the overpaid funds that are collected to pay for it? Wow so suspicious pic.twitter.com/peHKIHDYzU

— Ferdinand Hutahaean🇮🇩 (@FerdinandHaean3) August 10, 2021

To note, there are 28 priority issues that the DKI Provincial Government wants to address in the Ingub. Some of them are about flooding, clean water, waste water, solid waste, climate change and air pollution control, ducting, DP houses Rp.0, villages, flats, transportation regulations, Jaklingko, roads/bridges, Fatmawati-TMII MRT, KDPBU LRT, bicycles, digital transformation, and performance management.

"Ensuring the completion of regional priority issues in 2021-2022, leading and controlling the settlement of regional priority issues in 2021-2022, empowering all assistants and regional apparatus as well as BUMD and other regional potentials, and taking full responsibility for resolving regional priority issues in 2021-2022 ," wrote Anies in Ingub, quoted Monday, August 9.

DKI Governor Anies Baswedan still maintains his desire to organize Formula E, even though Jakarta is not included in the calendar for 2022. This effort is carried out by renegotiating with Formula E Operation (FEO), the manager of Formula E in New York, United States.

"PT Jakarta Propertindo has renegotiated with the FEO regarding the confirmation and clarity of the status of the sustainability of the cooperation, the time of implementation, and the status of the funding that has been paid," Anies said in an explanatory document regarding the changes to the 2017-2022 RPJMD.

However, after the renegotiations, it turns out that currently FEO has not issued any certainty regarding whether Jakarta will continue to host Formula E or not due to waiting for the development of the pandemic.

"The payment of the commitment fee for the 2022 event and beyond will be rescheduled after the certainty of the implementation of Formula E taking into account the end of the COVID-19 pandemic," he explained.