BUMN Commissioner With Multiple Positions Reported His Performance To The RI Ombudsman

Ministry Building SOEs. (Angga Nugraha / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Ombudsman admitted that he had received complaints regarding BUMN commissioners who had concurrent positions elsewhere. RI Ombudsman member Alamsyah Saragih said from the complaints that have been received, commissioners who have concurrently held positions often do not attend meetings or meetings to discuss company matters.

"I also received a lot of complaints from several commissioners who work very seriously and feel that many commissioners with concurrent positions have been difficult to attend. They are asked for no opinion but it is impossible for us to pay off the honorarium and bonuses," said Alamsyah in a discussion entitled Questioning Multiple Positions and Tangled Threads. BUMN management that was posted on Facebook, Thursday, July 2.

Although he did not convey the complainant, Alamsyah made sure that the complaints were true, evenly distributed, and frequent.

BUMN commissioners who are serious about working, he said, often feel that they are treated unfairly by commissioners who have concurrent positions elsewhere. He also asked the SOE Ministry not to evade this issue because the Indonesian Ombudsman has strong evidence regarding the complaint.

"Don't dodge the matter, don't let the documents scatter. We want to be fine. This is no longer a campaign, please don't deny the Ombudsman if you don't have a good argument," he said.

It is known, the Indonesian Ombudsman noted that there were 397 commissioners in BUMN in 2019 who were indicated to have concurrent positions elsewhere. In addition, as many as 167 commissioners in BUMN subsidiaries are also indicated to have the same problem.

Of these, 254 were from ministries, 112 were from non-ministerial institutions, and 31 were from academia.

The five ministries whose employees are mostly commissioners are the Ministry of BUMN with 55 people, the Ministry of Finance 42 people, the Ministry of PUPR with 17 people, the Ministry of Transportation 17 people, the Ministry of State Affairs 16 people, and the Coordinating Ministry for 13 people.

Meanwhile, for non-ministerial institutions, there are 27 people from the TNI, 13 people from the Police, 12 people from the Attorney General's Office, 11 people from the Regional Government, 11 people from the State Intelligence Agency (BIN), 6 people from the presidential office, 4 people from the BPK, and others as many as 19 people.

Returning to Alamsyah's explanation, apart from performance issues, there have been a number of complaints that have been submitted to the Ombudsman. This includes the BUMN commissioners coming from political volunteers and the placement of active TNI / Polri members.

He said, this could actually be resolved by improving the recruitment system. In addition to improving the recruitment system, the performance of the commissioners must be made public.

In fact, the Ombudsman hopes that the BPK RI can intervene in auditing the commissioner's performance. "What are they doing, the matter of attendance, the proposals and the results," he stressed.

"We will submit written suggestions. Second, we will push the process of improving the current commissioner recruitment system," he added.

The composition of the commissioners and the board of directors is considered disproportionate

If the Indonesian Ombudsman highlights the dual position of BUMN commissioner, Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) actually sees another problem, namely the fat structure of directors and commissioners in state-owned companies.

ICW Coordinator Donal Fariz assessed that the composition of the directors and commissioners in a number of state-owned companies and their subsidiaries was not proportional. He gave an example, there was a state-owned company that turned out to have six to nine commissioners.

"Is it true that a BUMN needs that many commissioners, especially for a subsidiary of BUMN," he asked.

He said that so far the number of commissioners and directors was not regulated in the legislation. This is what he said could cause other problems besides the problem of concurrent positions. "Does the number of commissioners have to be the same as the number of directors in BUMN? These are questions which, if we read in the law, are never binding," said Donal.

Moreover, commissioners are only tasked with supervising and providing advice to directors. So he considered, the number of commissioners does not need to be the same as the number of directors, but if needed it can still be added.

"In my opinion, the position of commissioner, especially in BUMN, especially in BUMN subsidiaries, only requires two or three people," he concluded.