New BPK Chief Faces Tons of Homework
23 April 2014 15:52 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta- Indonesian Forum For Budget Transparency (FITRA) coordinator Uchok Sky Khadafi said the newly-appointed chief of the Supreme Audit Agency, Rizal Djalil, had a lot of homework in his new post, including to fix the agency’s audit system—which has been considered too lenient by far.
Despite the rising number of financial reports from regional governments that the agency stated as “reasonable without exceptions” (WTP), Ucok claimed the real situation in the field had shown otherwise. “Those who received the WTP status were actually the ones beset by corruption. Not to mention the poor supervision in regions,” he told Tempo on Wednesday, April 23, 2014.
Uchok said another task Rizal had to deal with was to launch a comprehensive audit into state-owned enterprises, adding that so far the agency had only audited less than 50 percent of all the state enterprises.
“This has kept the public in the dark as to whether the state enterprises are clean [of graft] or not, because of the few samples,” he said.
He said Rizal must also regain public trust towards the agency and continued to push for the completion of the BPK law amendment, which would allow the agency to audit taxes of individuals and corporations.
“Presently, most irregularities are found in those types of taxes,” he said.
BPK member Rizal Djalil was appointed yesterday as the new BPK chief replacing Hadi Utomo for the period of April 22, 2014 to October 19, 2014.
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