ATR/BPN Straighten BPKP Audit Not Related To 12,000 Fictitious Land Certificates

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Agrarian and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) stated that the audit to be carried out by the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) was not a special audit related to reports that there were 12,000 fictitious land certificates, but an audit of program performance.

"It is true that currently, BPKP will conduct an audit at the Ministry of ATR/BPN, but this audit is not a specific or special audit," said Inspector General of the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Sunraizal quoted from Antara, Friday, June 3.

Sunraizal confirmed that BPKP had issued an assignment letter to audit the performance of the Complete Systematic Land Registration (PTSL) program.

The BPKP audit will be conducted at ATR/BPN regional offices in 33 provinces of Indonesia.

Meanwhile, to audit the potential loss to the state is a type of specific purpose audit or investigative audit.

"Therefore, the news about the 12,000 (fictitious certificates) does not encourage BPKP to enter, but it will enter (audit) throughout Indonesia," he said.

Previously, Deputy Chairman of Commission II of the DPR RI, Junimart Girsang, in a working meeting with the Ministry of ATR/BPN, stated that there were allegations that 12,000 PTSL program land certificates in North Sumatra were distributed to fictitious recipients.

Sunrizal explained that there were differences in the language used by members of the DPR and the Ministry of ATR/BPN at the meeting.

The Ministry of ATR/BPN explained that as many as 12 thousand land certificates were distributed to fictitious recipients but had not been submitted to the recipients and were still kept by BPN.

Sunraizal explained the reason that more than 12 thousand certificates from the Complete Systematic Land Registration (PTSL) program had not been submitted to the recipients because there were several obstacles.

"There are various models. Some of the data that became the source of the certificate issuance has not been submitted by the applicant, then the owner is outside the city of Medan or outside Deli Serdang so it is difficult to contact. Some certificates have been made but have not been distributed, the person is not there," he said.

In addition, there are also recipients of PTSL program land certificates who object to paying the Land and Building Rights Acquisition Fee (BPHTB), recipients who from the start were not willing to participate in the PTSL program, overlapping plots of land with other areas and so on.