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BPK Gave Unqualified Opinion for the Central Government Financial Statements Fiscal Year 2016

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The Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia (BPK) handed the Audit Report on the Central Government Financial Statements (LKPP) Fiscal Year 2016 to the House of Representatives at the Plenary Session held in Jakarta today (5/19). The audit on the LKPP Fiscal Year 2016 was conducted to audit the central government’s accountability in the state budget implementation in 2016.

In his speech, the Chairman of the BPK, Moermahadi Soerja Djanegara, mentioned that the government has followed up BPK’s recommendations for problems found in the financial statements Fiscal Year 2015. The government has succeeded to overcome the suspend problem, that was the difference between expenditure realization reported by Ministries/Institutions and by the State Treasurer. It was done by building a single database through e-recon and a better information system of financial statements preparation, causing no suspend in the 2016 financial statements.

The audit result of the LKPP was based on the audit results of 87 financial statements of Ministries/Institutions and one financial statements of the State Treasurer. There were 74 Ministries/Institutions or 84% gaining unqualified opinions. On the other hand, there were 8 Ministries/Institutions (9%) with qualified opinions and 6 Ministries/Institutions (7%) with a disclaimer. However, these qualified opinions and disclaimer did not materially affect the LKPP of 2016.

In addition, the BPK also revealed audit findings in the field of internal control system and compliances to rules and regulations. The weakness found in the internal control system such as the control on tax receivable and the collection of tax administration sanctions, the control on subsidy program management, debt liability of the public services of the state-owned train company, and the negative assets in the Social Health Insurance Fund. Audit findings in compliances problem such as the management of non-tax state revenues and non-tax receivables, tax refund and the management of direct grants. Those findings, nevertheless, did not affect the fairness of the 2016 LKPP.

Thus, based on the audit conducted as guided by the State Financial Audit Standard (SPKN), the BPK concluded that the LKPP Fiscal Year 2016 has fairly stated all material aspects according to the Government Accounting Standard (SAP). In this regard, the BPK attributed the unqualified opinion to the LKPP Fiscal Year 2016.

The BPK asked the government to follow up recommendations for problems found in the internal control system and compliances to rules and regulations, as to continuously improve the accountability of the state budget implementation in the fortcoming year.

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