State Losses In The Alleged BLUD Corruption Case At Sumbawa Hospital Reaches IDR 1.6 Billion

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The Prosecutor's Office released a potential state loss that arose in the alleged corruption case of funds from the Regional Umun Service Agency (BLUD) at the Sumbawa Regional General Hospital (RSUD), West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) for the 2021 fiscal year.

"The potential loss to the state is around Rp. 1.6 billion," said Sumbawa Kejari Head Adung Sutriangono by telephone, Wednesday, May 3, as reported by Antara.

However, Adung assured that this potential was not final. Instead, he assured that investigators still have to strengthen the results of the audit expert examination.

"So, we still have to strengthen the number of losses," he said.

To meet these needs, investigators are now waiting for a copy of banking transactions from the management of BLUD funds.

"Hopefully in the near future, we will get it (a copy of banking transactions) from the bank," he said.

He also said that the search for state losses in this case was already included in the agenda of the case title with the NTB Representative BPKP.

"Together with BPKP, we have carried out the initial title. Then we will officially write to ask for help in the calculation," he said.

Furthermore, Adung said witness examination is still ongoing. He assured that the agenda took place in a marathon in the first two weeks of May 2023.

Kejari Sumbawa menangani kasus ini berdasarkan adanya laporan masyarakat. Tindak lanjut laporan, jaksa melakukan kajian dari dokumen kelengkapan laporan yang menguatkan indikasi pidana dalam pengelolaan dana BLUD tahun 2021.

This report was previously revealed to have entered the NTB Prosecutor's Office in November 2021. In the report, it is outlined that there is a project for the procurement of goods and services with a budget of more than one billion being auctioned using a direct appointment mechanism.

The projects include the procurement of medical equipment DRX Ascend System, which is worth IDR 1.49 billion. There is also Mobile DR worth IDR 1.04 billion.

According to the reporter, there are allegations of a mechanism that collides with the Sumbawa Regent Regulation Number: 16/2015 concerning PBJ at the BLUD Sumbawa Hospital and Presidential Decree Number: 16/2018 concerning Government PBJ.

Then, there are also irregularities in the budget for health services (jaspelkes). There are allegations of abuse of authority in employee remuneration.

In the report, the Director of the Sumbawa Hospital for the 2021 BLUD fund management period, is suspected of having also received privileges with a quota of 5 percent of the total Jaspelkes.

The legal basis also refers to the Regulation of the Director of the Sumbawa Hospital Number: 82/2021 concerning the Distribution of Jaspel at the Sumbawa Hospital.

In the description of the regulations, the amount of Jaspelkes is for the leadership element with a remuneration from Jaspelkes 5 percent which is divided again into 3 percent for the performance of the director; 0.77 percent for the performance of the Head of TU; 0.73 percent for the performance of the Head of Service; and 0.5 percent for the performance of the Head of Nursing.

In fact, this Jaspelkes arrangement must refer to Permendagri Number: 79/2018 concerning BLUD which contains Regulations on Remuneration Distribution which use regional head regulations, not RSUD director regulations.