Deputy Governor Of DKI Affirms Substitution Of Head Of DKI BPK Has Nothing To Do With The Findings Of Formula E

Deputy Governor of DKI Riza Patria/DOK VOI-Diah Ayu

JAKARTA - The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) of the Republic of Indonesia has replaced the position of Head of the DKI BPK Representative Office. Currently, the Head of DKI BPK is Dede Sukarjo.

Previously, the position was held by Pemut Aryo Wibowo, who has currently moved to become the Head of the Aceh Representative BPK.

Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta, Ahmad Riza Patria, emphasized that changing positions in government agencies is normal. This, said Riza, has nothing to do with BPK's findings on Formula E.

"It has nothing to do with BPK changes, it's normal. It has nothing to do with BPK recommendations regarding various things," said Riza at DKI City Hall, Central Jakarta, Thursday, September 16.

In fact, Riza said, so far the DKI Provincial Government's financial reports have received an unqualified predicate (WTP) since 2018, 2019, 2020, until 2021.

"In fact, DKI has achieved 4 consecutive years of WTP," he said.

In the change of position, Riza hopes that BPK DKI can continue to cooperate with the DKI Provincial Government in auditing regional financial accountability reports.

"We hope of course that we can work together, collaborate, have positive synergy, and continue the good cooperation. We are grateful for 4 years in a row that DKI Province has received WTP financial reports and hopefully in the following years it can also be get WTP," he said.

It is known that for four years DKI received the WTP title from the BPK. However, there are a number of notes highlighted by the DKI BPK, which was then led by Pemut, in DKI's 2019 and 2020 financial reports.

Some of these records include the financial statements of Formula E for 2020 which do not include the commitment fee budget and bank guarantees as expenses for Formula E expenses in the feasibility study that was made. Thus, BPK recommends that the DKI Provincial Government revise the feasibility study.

In addition, there were also findings of wasting the purchase of N95 masks and rapid tests in 2020. Then, DKI was also known to still pay the salaries of employees who had retired until they died, before being followed up by the Provincial Government.

Then, BPK also found that DKI had overpaid the purchase of fire engines in 2019 and overpaid the Transjakarta subsidy in 2020.