Member Of DPRD DKI PKS Faction Questions Commitment Fee For Formula E Jakarta Which Is More Expensive Than Other Countries

Deputy Head of Commission E of DKI DPRD Anggara Wicitra Sastroamidjojo (Photo: dprd-dkijakartaprov.go.id)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairperson of Commission E of the DKI DPRD, Anggara Wicitra Sastroamidjojo, questioned the high cost of the commitment fee for Formula E for 5 years of implementation, which the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan had to pay.

Based on his calculations, the commitment fee for Formula E borne by the Jakarta Regional Budget is £122.102 million or equivalent to Rp2.4 trillion.

In fact, said Anggara, the implementation of Formula E in Montreal, Canada only costs 151,000 Canadian dollars for Nomination fees for the City of Montreal or equivalent to IDR 1.7 billion and Race fees of 1.5 million Canadian dollars or 17 billion IDR, with a total cost amounting to Rp. 18.7 billion.

“The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government and PT Jakpro should be observant and ask why the application of the commitment fee fee in different cities is different? Why does Montreal only pay 5 percent of the commitment fee charged by Dispora?” said Anggara to reporters, Friday, September 17.

In fact, in a number of Formula E cities such as New York, the United States is not charged a commitment fee, even the city of Rome, Italy is exempted from a commitment fee until 2025.

"It is questionable why the commitment fee for Formula E Jakarta is so high and clearly burdens the Jakarta budget," he said.

Anggara said that there was still a lot of information regarding the cost of Formula E that was not fully known because the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government and Jakpro were reluctant to disclose details of the Jakarta Formula E contract despite being asked several times at Commission E meetings.

"If there is no interpellation, then all of this will be a mystery to all Jakarta residents, because there is no clarity from the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government and Governor Anies," he concluded.

It is known that the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan, wants Formula E to be held in June 2022. This was confirmed through Governor's Instruction Number 49 of 2021 concerning the Settlement of Regional Priority Issues in 2021-2022.

In this instruction, there are 28 issues that are the targets of achieving the completion of regional priority issues in 2021-2022. One of the issues on the list is the implementation of Formula E.

So far, Anies has paid a commitment fee paid in 2019 of 20 million pounds sterling, equivalent to IDR 360 billion, a commitment fee in 2020 of 11 million pounds sterling or equivalent to IDR 200 billion, and a bank guarantee of 22 million pounds sterling or IDR 423 billion. The total is almost IDR 1 trillion.

However, Anies still has to pay off the obligation to pay the Formula E commitment fee for 5 years. The estimated unpaid commitment fee is IDR 2.3 trillion.

The plan to hold Formula E in the DPRD is still a polemic. The PDIP and PSI factions proposed an interpellation right to Anies to ask for an explanation on this matter.