Wins WTP Opinions But BPK Finds There's An Overpayment, Anies: We'll Follow Up All

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan/DOK Public Relations DKI Provincial Government

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan admitted that the DKI Provincial Government will immediately follow up on the findings of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) in examining the DKI Provincial Government's financial statements for 2021.

In this case, BPK embeds the Unqualified Opinion (WTP) for the DKI Provincial Government. However, there are a number of financial statement records that must be corrected, one of which is the overpayment of salaries to the payment of goods and services.

"We will follow up on everything that is involved in every audit," said Anies at the DKI Jakarta DPRD building, Tuesday, May 31.

Anies said that the DKI Provincial Government was included in the agency that followed up on BPK records with a fairly high settlement coverage. In the follow-up to the records contained in the examination of the 2020 financial statements, the DKI Provincial Government managed to complete the findings up to 86.34 percent.

"This Jakarta, in our audit process, the report on the results of the follow-up BPK examination reached 86.34 percent. This is higher than the national average of 80.6 percent and higher than the previous year's 77.6 percent," explained Anies.

Previously, the Head of the DKI Jakarta BPK Representative Office, Dede Sukarjo, stated that the DKI Provincial Government had again received a WTP opinion on the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government's financial report for the 2021 fiscal year. This WTP predicate is the fifth time that it has been maintained in a row since 2017.

"Based on the examination that has been carried out by BPK on the 2021 DKI Jakarta Provincial Government financial statements, BPK gives an unqualified opinion. Thus, in a row in the last five years, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has received a WTP opinion," said Dede in a meeting plenary.

Despite receiving the WTP predicate, it turns out that BPK still found a number of financial reports that needed improvement.

On the expenditure side, BPK found several problems, including overpayment/regional work allowances and TPP of Rp4.17 billion, under-collection and deposit of BPJS Kesehatan and employment of Rp.13.53 billion.

There was an overpayment for goods and services expenditure of Rp3.13 billion and an overpayment for the implementation of work that was not in accordance with the contract of Rp3.52 billion.

In addition, from the side of regional cash management, BPK also found the use of cash accounts and escrow accounts that had no legal basis and without going through the approval process of the Regional Financial Management Agency (BPKD).

Then, on the revenue side, BPK found a weakness in the process of determining and collecting local taxes which resulted in a shortage of local tax revenues.

Furthermore, in asset management, BPK also found a number of problems, including the lack of fulfillment of building floor coefficient (KLB) obligations, double recording of fixed assets, fixed assets whose status has not been determined, and fixed assets whose whereabouts are unknown.

In terms of assets, BPK also found that there were records of inventory cards that were not up to date, misclassification of fixed assets, land assets controlled by third parties, land in dispute, 3,110 parcels of land not yet certified, and utilization of fixed assets by third parties not supported by work agreements. same.

In addition, BPK also found that the provision of social assistance for KJP plus and KJMU had not been fully targeted, in time, and in amount. Specifically for the KJP plus and KJMU programs, BPK found problems with channel failures and distribution failures, in this case savings books and ATM cards were still stored at Bank DKI.

Therefore, BPK gave the DKI Provincial Government 60 days after the inspection report was submitted to follow up on recommendations on the findings submitted.