TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Labor Union of the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKK Migas) has questioned the standards used by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) in an audit report released in 2015. The BPK rated SKK Migas’ report with a term of “unreasonable”.
SKK Migas Labor Union chairman Dedi Suryadi said that the final results of BPK’s audit report were inconsistent with the previous ones stating that BPK’s performance was “reasonable without exceptions”.
Dedi revealed that the audit findings were related to the acknowledgement of service, retirement preparation period, health benefits, a reward for service anniversary, compensation recording, and abandonment and site restoration.
“Those are regular findings from auditors, and as in previous years, we have answered and clarified those findings,” Dedi said in a press release on Friday, October 7, 2016.
According to Dedi, BPK’s assessment was baseless, as in 2014, the BPK rated SKK Migas report as “reasonable without exceptions”.
“The BPK head is still the same, the materials remain the same, but how the results can be different from the 2015 audit? Is it manipulated or what?” he questioned.
Dedi added that the rating downgrade had been apparent since the beginning of this year. However, he said that the Labor Union respected the final assessment and was ready to dub the BPK report as the second “Sumber Waras” audit report.
“We demand an open clarification for the audit SOP from the BPK over the last few years,” Dedi said, adding that he also demanded ethics evaluation on BPK auditors.
MAYA AYU PUSPITASARI
