BPKP Claims Its Duty To Supervise Finances Was Contributing The State Of IDR 66 Trillion Per Semester I 2022

Head of BPKP Muhammad Yusuf Ateh. ANTARA/HO-BPKP

JAKARTA - The Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) claims to have made a positive contribution to the state of IDR 66.66 trillion for their duties in supervising state and regional finances during Semester I 2022.

"The results of BPKP supervision within a period of 6 months (January-June) 2022 have reported to the President that BPKP has succeeded in contributing positively to state finances worth IDR 66.66 trillion," said Head of BPKP Muhammad Yusuf Ateh in his statement, quoted from Antara, Thursday, July 21.

In Semester I, he said, his party had implemented 2,203 supervisory work programs through three aspects, namely, saving expenditures, saving state finances, and optimizing revenues.

Ateh said the positive contribution of supervision consisted of saving state financial expenditures of IDR 49.40 trillion, saving state finances of IDR 14.02 trillion, and optimizing state revenues of IDR 3.24 trillion.

This great achievement, he said, was the accumulation of BPKP's monitoring results on various strategic development issues, such as governance of the coal and palm oil industry, completion of strategic infrastructure projects, distribution of social assistance, procurement, and acceleration of vaccination, to the provision of education.

According to Ateh, BPKP's positive achievements will continue in Semester II 2022. In addition, BPKP also ensures the efficiency and effectiveness of spending through evaluation of government planning and budgeting.

He revealed that the focus of BPKP supervision in Semester II was to complete strategic supervision, in accordance with the request of the President and other key stakeholders, and to effectively complete the priority agenda of supervision in 2022.

Ateh emphasized that BPKP intensively oversees the accountability and effectiveness of government program governance.

This, he said, was to ensure the sustainability of economic growth amidst the challenges of an increasingly volatile global economy that had not yet fully recovered from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition, he continued, economic uncertainty triggered by wars in other countries, the threat of a commodity crisis, the threat of an energy crisis, and a surge in inflation.