TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) admitted that he eliminated the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) procurement in 2014 city budget. Moreover, education is not a priority in 2014 Budget Changes, especially for UPS purchases.
Ahok said that the city's budget priorities and preliminary thresholds (KUA PPAS) for 2014 signed by him and Ferrial Sofyan, Legislatives Head at the time.
"There are mentioned about priorities in Jakarta until we must make the budget changes. We prioritized environment and transportation, but not education," stated Ahok in Jakarta City Hall, Friday (7/31).
Ahok also questioned of why did the UPS provision appeared in the budget, while the Legislatives didn't know about the provision. "I don't know why UPS can be included in the budget. The Legislatives also didn't want to admit it because we have not yet use e-budgeting at the time," he added.
To prove it, Ahok used e-budgeting system in 2015 City Budget and finally knew that the UPS procurement are proposed from Legislatives. "There is no UPS proposal in 2015 KUA PPAS in e-budgeting, but the proposal did appeared in the budget version of the Legislatives. If they claim that their version is the original one, it means that they broke the agreement which contained in MoU between executive and legislative," he said.
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