Heru Budi Doesn't Know DKI Provincial Government Budgets IDR 2.9 Billion For Rehabilitation Of Office Houses

Acting Governor Of DKI Heru Budi Hartono/DOK PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

JAKARTA - Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono admitted that he did not know about the plan to rehabilitate his official residence in the Menteng area, Central Jakarta with a budget value of Rp. 2.9 billion. Heru admitted that he would ask for an explanation regarding the restoration of the official residence of the Governor of DKI which was held this year to his subordinates. "I'll ask the General Bureau first. Later I'll tell him to talk," said Heru when met in Cipinang, East Jakarta, Friday, March 17. As is known, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government plans to rehabilitate the official residence of the Governor of DKI Jakarta with a budget of IDR 2.9 billion through the APBD for the 2023 fiscal year. The rehabilitation work for the official residence of the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Heru Budi Hartono, is contained in the Information System website of the General Plan for the Procurement of Goods and Services Procurement Policy Institutions (LKPP Sirup). The procurement of official houses in the Menteng area, Central Jakarta is included in the budget allocation of the Cipta Karya, Spatial Planning and Land Service. "The name KLPD is the Regional Government of DKI Jakarta Province. The work unit of the Cipta Karya, Spatial Planning and Land Service. Detailed location of Jalan Taman Suropati Number 7, Menteng, Central Jakarta City," wrote a statement on the LKPP website. In information on procurement on the LKPP website, it is stated that the architectural rehabilitation of Heru Budi's official residence includes repairing roofs, walls, ceilings, floors, and others. The method of selecting the rehabilitation of official houses is in the form of tenders. The DKI Provincial Government invites domestic products from small businesses or MSMEs to participate in the construction tender process. "The type of procurement of construction work. The total ceiling is IDR 2,901,369,116," he wrote. The DKI Provincial Government has scheduled the selection of construction providers for the rehabilitation of Heru's official residence to be carried out from July to August 2023 and continued in the contract implementation from September to December 2023. Meanwhile, the use of goods/services for procurement will be carried out in December 2023. Looking back, the DKI Jakarta Cipta Karya, Spatial Planning and Land Service (Citata) had included a budget for the rehabilitation of the DKI Jakarta Governor's official residence in the 2020 APBB draft. At that time, the DKI Citata Service revealed that the parts of the house that would be rehabilitated were roofs including ceilings and roof tiles, repainting, and tidying up the interior inside the house. This is because the roof at the Governor's official residence, which at that time was still held by Anies Baswedan, had started to porous, and the walls needed to be repainted. However, it is not yet known whether the restoration work of the official residence of the Governor of DKI in 2020 will be carried out or not. Given, there are many allocations of the development budget in the DKI APBD that have been diverted (refocusing) for handling COVID-19.