KPK Highlights Ministry Of Health, Which Has A Budget Of IDR 130 Trillion But Is Slow To Pay For Hospitals And Health Workers

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) highlighted the slow payment for hospitals and health workers by the Ministry of Health even though the funds disbursed by the government reached Rp130 trillion.

The Deputy for Prevention and Monitoring of the KPK, Pahala Nainggolan, said that his party even went to the field and from there it was known that there were problems that made these payments slow to make.

"We found the problem was that the claims were slow. Secondly, the incentives for health workers were correct and the claims were true. It turned out that what was found was that the claims were slow, especially those for the regions," said Pahala in a press conference broadcast on the Indonesian KPK YouTube, Wednesday, August 18.

For this reason, the KPK finally sent a letter to the Ministry of Health so that the problem could be resolved.

"So we wrote, how to speed up," he said.

Pahala said the ministry, led by Budi Gunadi Sadikin, had a larger budget for handling COVID-19 than other ministries/agencies.

This prompted the anti-corruption commission to place a special team to prevent corruption in the use of the budget.

"So we joined the Ministry of Health team. We did a field visit to make sure the claim from the hospital for the cost of handling COVID-19 was true," he concluded.