Healthcare Workers Received Double Incentives, Deputy Minister Of Health: It's Just A Technical Problem

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JAKARTA - Deputy Minister of Health, Dante Saksono Harbuwono explained that the double transfer of incentives for health workers occurred due to technical problems.

"So this is actually a technical problem regarding the double transfer and has received an audit from the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK)," said Dante Saksono Harbuwono when delivering a press statement cited from the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) YouTube broadcast in Jakarta, Wednesday, October 27.

Dante said the incentives for health workers during the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic were double paid, not because of excess money.

"There are 477 hospitals with double transfers. We ask the health workers to return those that have been transferred," he said.

Refunds need to be complied with by all recipients so that government expenditures are accountable and accountable.

According to Dante, the incident began after the Indonesian Ministry of Health received a financial audit from the BPK. "So we got the findings, so we asked for a transfer back to the government," he said, quoted from Antara.

Separately, the Secretary of the Health Human Resource Development Center (PPSDM) Agency of the Indonesian Ministry of Health, Trisa Wahyuni Putri, said that health workers were very cooperative in returning excess funds for the transfer of incentives to handle the COVID-19 pandemic to the state.

"So far, the health workers are very cooperative in returning the double transfer and the city also continues to provide understanding to the health workers to immediately return the funds," she said.