On The Auditor's Role, Firli Bahuri: If It's Good, There's No State Money Sale

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Firli Bahuri said the role of auditors in eradicating corrupt practices was needed. The better their performance, the more cheating will not happen.

"If the auditor is good, there will be no misappropriation of state money," said Firli as quoted from his written statement on Friday, July 8.

This condition makes the KPK focus on strengthening the role of audits in the second round of Anti Corruption Work Group (ACWG) activities in Nusa Dua, Bali. Not only in the prevention sector, auditors can play a role in helping to eradicate corruption.

"We take advantage of audits in the context of preventing and eradicating corruption. Corruption arises from the stage of planning, implementation, ratification, and evaluation. There is an audit role," said Firli.

Firli explained that his institution often cooperates with agencies in charge of auditing, such as the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) and the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP).

In addition to preventing corruption, this inter-institutional cooperation occurs to calculate state losses. This step must be taken so that asset returns can be maximized.

Despite working together, the agency in charge of auditing will remain independent. "The KPK is the same way. But independence does not mean that you cannot be spoken to, but not collusion," he said.

The KPK, continued Firli, still requires auditors from other institutions to work professionally. "The important thing is how the role of this audit can prevent corruption from preparing planning, preparing budgets, ratification, implementation, evaluation so that there are no state losses," he said.

"If there is a state loss, then he must play a role by calculating so that the KPK can take advantage of it to be able to return state losses as much as possible," he concluded.