Heru Budi Responds Casually To BPK's Findings Regarding Excess Paying Until Funds Deposit

The plenary room of the DKI Jakarta DPRD/PHOTO: Diah Ayu-VOI

Acting (Pj) Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono answered casually on the findings of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) in the results of the 2022 DKI Provincial Government financial report examination.

Although DKI's 2022 financial report received an Unqualified Opinion (WTP), BPK still found that there was an overpayment up to APBD funds that deposited.

BPK also asked the DKI Provincial Government to follow up on the recommendations for improvement. In short, Heru said that the BPK findings would soon be discussed with the ranks of the DKI Provincial Government to be resolved.

"We will follow up. We will have a meeting (discussing recommendations from BPK's findings)," said Heru after submitting the financial examination report (LHP) from the BPK at the DKI Jakarta DPRD building, Monday, May 29.

Likewise, there are still undistributed social assistance. Heru views this finding as not a big problem, as long as the recommendation of the findings is followed up by the DKI Provincial Government.

"No problem," said Heru.

On that occasion, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government received an Unqualified Opinion (WTP) on the 2022 regional financial audit results from the BPK.

However, the title of WTP does not mean that there are no problems in the DKI Provincial Government's financial statements. BPK found that there were still problems related to regional financial management throughout 2022.

This was conveyed by Member V of the BPK RI Ahmadi Noor Supit in the plenary meeting of the submission of the BPK examination report (LHP) to the DKI Provincial Government at the DKI Jakarta DPRD Building.

"Without reducing the success that has been achieved, BPK is still finding problems related to regional financial management," said Ahmadi Noor Supit, Monday, May 29.

The first problem is that there is an overpayment of expenditures worth IDR 11.34 billion and a delay fine of IDR 34.53 billion, bringing the total to IDR 45.87 billion.

"The excess payment for expenditures of Rp11.34 billion occurred due to an overpayment of salaries and additional income of Rp6.39 billion, a shortage of goods/service procurement volume of Rp4.06 billion, overpayment of grants and social assistance expenditures worth Rp878 million," explained Ahmadi Noor Supit.

Meanwhile, the late fines recorded by BPK amounted to Rp34.53 billion. For this problem, it has been returned to the regional treasury amounting to Rp14.66 billion.

The second problem is that the funds deposited KJP Plus and KJMU social assistance worth Rp197.55 billion which had not been distributed to the recipients, as well as social assistance to meet basic needs worth Rp15.18 billion, which BPK said did not comply with the provisions.

The third problem is the administration of the handover and recording of fixed assets of social-fasum facilities that are not yet orderly.

"The absences include two parcels of public facilities land that have been received from the holder of a Land Use Control Permit (SIPPT) of Rp. 17.72 billion with dispute status, not all of which have been reported by the Mayor to BPAD," explained Ahmadi Noor Supit.

"The fasos fasum assets are controlled and/or used by other parties without agreement, the dual records of fasum fasos assets in KIB, as well as public facilities in the form of buildings, roads, canals, and bridges are recorded in an unnatural size, namely 0 m2 or 1 m2," he continued.

The problem of overpayment until the funds deposited KJP Plus-KJMU like this was previously the finding of the BPK in the results of the financial examination of the DKI Provincial Government in the Anies Baswedan era who served as Governor of DKI for the 2017-2022 period.

"The official is obliged to provide an answer or explanation to the BPK regarding the follow-up on the recommendation of the examination report. The answer or explanation referred to BPK no later than 60 days after the examination report is received," he said.