Govt Disburses Additional Rp831 Billion of Funds for PON Papua

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Ministry of Youth and Sports (Kemenpora) distributed an additional financial assistance of around Rp831 billion for the National Sports Week or PON Papua, and the XVI National Paralympic Week (Peparnas). The source of the financial assistance is from the State General Treasurer's Chart of Accounts (BA BUN).

The additional funds were given along with a cooperation agreement between the Kemenpora and the PON and Peparnas Grand Committee at the Kemenpora Auditorium on Monday. A total of Rp 715 billion will be allocated for PB PON, while PB Peparnas will be allocated Rp116 billion.

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Zainudin Amali, explained that the increase in the budget was after a request from the Chairman of PB PON Papua and the Governor of Papua, Lukas Enembe, to President Joko Widodo. The government also reviewed the budget proposal.

The Ministry of Finance approved additional funds of Rp1.4 trillion for PON Papua and Rp175 billion for Peparnas Papua. “The process is indeed long because we have to be careful regarding administration. I especially give a message to the Ministry of Youth and Sports for the Papua PON, successful achievements, implementation and administration," Amali said on Monday, September 27, 2021.

Regarding the difference in the amount signed in the cooperation agreement and the budget approved by the Ministry of Finance, Amali explained that some budget submissions still require administrative completeness.

"So what was signed earlier was the complete administration. Why do we do that, because we are just a passing place. So this is not managed by the Ministry of Youth and Sports. Funds from the finance ministry, from BA BUN are directly channeled through PB PON and Peparnas," he said.

Amali assessed that the success of the host Papua's achievement in PON, must be followed by the success of the implementation. He wants PB PON and Peparnas to be able to provide the best service to contingents from various provinces in the country. "You have to make a sense of comfort and security so that no one returning from Papua has a bad impression. I hope that PB PON will carry out that and definitely can," said Amali.

In addition to the success of achievements and implementation, Amali wants the committee to be able to make the entire administrative process run transparently, especially regarding reports and the use of state finances in these activities.

"That's why, we invited the presence of the Deputy Attorney General for Intelligence, the Director of Corruption Crimes at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency, to make us calm, but be careful. We don't want to be witnessed by Jamintel and Dirtipikor Polri but then our work is reckless, "said Zainudin Amali.

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