BPKP Problemes Data Differences In The Palm Oil Company Audit Process

Head of the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) Muhammad Yusuf Ateh. (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) is collecting data to audit its palm oil and derivative industries.

However, the data collected in this audit process has differences between agencies. One of them is about people's oil palm plantations.

Head of BPKP Muhammad Yusuf Ateh said, based on data received by BPKP, it was recorded that the area of the people's oil palm plantation was around 42 percent.

According to Ateh, the data is 2010 data.

Based on BPKP estimates, Ateh continued, the area of the people's oil palm plantation is believed to be reduced from that number. Given that there is a difference in the time of 12 years.

"Until now, no one agency has that data. Some have 2010 data, some have 2009 data and nothing (data) is the same. We will map it all out later," said Ateh, quoted Friday, July 8.

Therefore, Ateh invites the active role of regional heads whose regions are palm oil producers to provide data related to the area of oil palm plantations.

Ateh added, this is one of the efforts to audit palm oil comprehensively.

"Information on the data that you (the Regent of AKPSI) collects are still many who have not been entered. We will audit the whole thing, the main goal is for the benefit of the state," he said.

Ateh said, if from the results of the audit it was found that there were companies that were proven to have violated and did not want to compensate the state's finances, the problem could be raised to the legal process.

Even so, what said was that his party would first carry out a settlement of state finances.

"We prioritized completing state finances first. The new criminal is later if you don't want compensation," he said.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Indonesian Palm Oil Results Association (AKPSI) Yulhaidir said the regents would send palm oil plantation data to BPKP as soon as possible.

Furthermore, Yulhaidar said, the data already exists because all regencies/cities already have data collected through the agricultural office and/or plantation services.

"Today it's about 20 percent (the data that has been provided). Tomorrow may be more. The point is as soon as possible (to provide data on oil palm land)," he said.

Forms of the Palm Oil Industry Governance Audit Team

The government and BPKB conducted an audit of palm oil companies for three months. The scope of the palm oil audit is very wide.

Therefore, BPKP together with the Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Indonesia (Kejagung RI) formed a Joint Audit Team for Governance of Palm Oil Industry.

This team will later audit many things, one of which is land.

The formation of the Joint Audit Team is a follow-up to the MoU between the BPKP and the Attorney General's Office and carried out President Joko Widodo's directives in recent months that instructed BPKP to oversee efforts to improve the governance of the palm oil industry which was coordinated by the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan.

"The implementation of the Palm Oil Industry Governance audit really requires legal exercise from the Attorney General's Office," said Head of BPKP Muhammad Yusuf Ateh, Monday, June 27.

According to Ateh, Kejaksaan Agung is the initial party that revealed the urgency of improving the palm oil industry in Indonesia, and is currently still carrying out investigations/investigations on several actors involved in the management of the industry, including palm oil companies.

The escort efforts carried out by BPKP and the Attorney General's Office will certainly have a maximum added value if carried out collaboratively.

This is because the scope of the audit of the governance of the oil palm industry will involve many stakeholders.

Ateh also explained that the partner (counterpart) for the audit and audition (the party who became the object of the audit) came from the central and regional government agencies.

He said the collaboration had been carried out with the Attorney General's Office.

It was recorded that at least 80 BPKP auditors collaborated with the Attorney General's Office for the process related to palm oil audits.

"Every day we coordinate, which ones are in criminal size, which ones are in restoration, civil, we all join," said Ateh.