Fantastic Cost Of New Curtains For DPR Members House And 'Paving' The Streets Of DPR Building

DPR Building/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) has again become a concern because it has budgeted for the replacement of the curtains on the official residence of members with a fantastic nominal. How not, to replace the curtains alone can cost up to IDR 48 billion with a count of IDR 90 million per house.

In the Electronic Procurement Service (LPSE) of the DPR RI, for the procurement made on March 8, 2022, it is stated that the replacement of the curtains and blinds of the DPR RI in Kalibata is worth IDR 48,745,624,000.

This means that the replacement of the curtains for the House of Representatives (RJA) members in Kalibata spends around IDR 48.7 billion of the APBN budget.

Not to mention the problem of asphalting the DPR, which reached IDR 11 billion. The asphalting is called to welcome the P20 event in October.

It was crowded, finally the Secretariat General (Sekjen) of the DPR RI, Indra Iskandar, immediately clarified the polemic of the IDR 48 billion budget for curtains at the official residence of members of the DPR.

According to him, the members of the council complained about the curtains that were no longer suitable to cover the view from outside the house because they were 13 years old.

Indra explained that during the change of members in 2019, the Secretariat General of the DPR had submitted a budget to renovate the house of office as a whole. Including painting and standard equipment in the house of office.

However, the budget is not sufficient. The government, in this case, the Ministry of Finance, only provides a ceiling according to the needs of some activities.

“Thirteen (13) years ago, until now there has never been, never been replaced. So, yesterday in 2022, after the budget was available, we included a vitrase component to replace the curtains on the houses of members who are more than 13 years old," said Indra during a press conference at the DPR Media Center, Monday, March 28.

The procurement of the curtains, Indra continued, had been carried out using an open auction mechanism and emphasized that the work plan and conditions (RKS) were very clear.

"Twice I have met, it is necessary to emphasize the importance of domestic production in the RKS," explained Indra.

"So several times the auctions held at the DPR are usually the ones who lose the auction, then leak it to the media and leak it to the legal apparatus as if there was a hengkipengki. There's no hengkipengki, there's no such thing. If you want to auction anything, procedurally, the procurement service unit (ULP) working group in the DPR works professionally," he continued.

Indra added, because there has been no budget allocation from the government since 13 years ago, for the safety of the comfort of the council members, some members had to buy privately.

"It is indeed very inappropriate for the curtains of a house that can block the view from the outside. Now, in 2022, a budget allocation for curtain replacement has only been obtained and only this budget can only be allocated for 505 housing units. only for the 505 housing units per house, the average is around 80 million, which equals 90 million in tax per house," said Indra.

In more detail, Indra explained, the components are on the first floor for the living room window, two family room windows, three workspace windows, four main bedrooms, five kitchen windows, and six staircase windows. Then, for the second floor the windows for the children's bedroom, then the windows for the children's bedroom, the void windows for the family room, and the windows for the bedroom of the household assistant.

"So, there are 11 items from the number I mentioned 80 million and that's the 2022 budget ceiling of 48,745.624,000 for the estimated price from the planning consultant or consultant estimate 46,194,954,000. Now, for the estimated price, we calculate it includes 11 percent VAT of IDR 45,767,446,332. All planning aspects such as design, materials, technical specifications, and estimated prices are prepared by planning consultants and through the service unit process," explained Indra.

Furthermore, the IDR 48 billion number, which emerged from the ToR proposed in 2021, was then reviewed by the main inspectorate of the DPR based on the feasibility of market prices, and this review was used as the basis for the Secretariat General of the DPR to submit the budget to the ministry of finance.

Before being submitted to the Ministry of Finance, Indra said the mechanism at the Secretariat had also gone through several discussions with the House Affairs Agency (BURT) of the DPR.

“So, besides being reviewed by the main inspectorate, all these activities were also carried out very intensive discussions with the BURT Panja. So IDR 48 billion is curtains, not for 1-2 houses but for 505 houses with 11 items in each house," Indra explained.

Meanwhile, regarding the IDR 11 billion budget for asphalting in the Parliament complex, Indra explained that his party will carry out asphalt for many things. This is because, he said, the asphalt condition in the parliament complex has now been eroded, so it is easy to get waterlogged.

On the other hand, in early October 2022, the P20 will be held, attended by 20 heads of world parliaments who are the same as the G20 plus 20 other countries at the invitation of the DPR.

"So in early October, there will be around 40 world parliaments who will be here, to prepare to go there, of course, we will tidy up all the appearances of the DPR starting from the gates, parks, and all the streets. Asphalt itself is calculated as the total area of ​​the asphalt is 85,300 square meters with the use of asphalt being estimated at 7100 asphalt concrete," said Indra.

Indra said that the Secretariat General of the DPR will complete all infrastructure projects before July. Because in August, on the 16th, there will be a cycle of approval of the state budget and the president's state speech for the affairs of the 2023 state budget.

“On that basis, from now until July we will do garden fireplaces, paving, and building fireplaces. Last week, we carried out waterproofing fireplaces in Nusantara buildings and others," said Indra.