BPK and BPKP Sign MOU To Improve Synergy and Coordination
AKARTA, BPK Public Relations – Chairman of the Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia (BPK), Agung Firman Sampurna, and Chairman of Indonesia’s National Government Internal Auditor (BPKP), Muhammad Yusuf Ateh, signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in BPK Head Office in Jakarta, on Friday (10/9/2021).
Mentioned in MoU, BPK and BPKP agreed on synergy and coordination of audit/oversight of state finance as well as on organizational capacity development aimed to improve state financial management and accountability.
Chairman of BPK says BPK has been developing cooperation with multi-actors to enable BPK to give its best in carrying out its duties and functions. The cooperation with multi-actors is to better building synergy, collaboration, and coordination with stakeholders.
In his remarks at the MoU signing, Chairman of BPK mentions that cooperation with BPKP is one of efforts to improve roles of BPK and to broaden benefits that BPK gives to people. The cooperation is in accordance with BPK’s vision “to be a trusted audit institution that plays an active role in fostering state finance with high-quality and useful financial governance to achieve state objectives” that is stated in BPK Strategic Plan of 2020-2024.
"BPK as an audit institution is care for taking its roles actively to improve high quality state financial management, consequently BPK is driven to establish a good synergy, collaboration, and coordination with stakeholders," Chairman of BPK said.
"Among cooperation that BPK has built is cooperation with BPKP as Government Internal Supervisory Agency (APIP), having tasks to supervise state financial management in all stages from planning, execution, to accountability reporting," he added.
Witnessed the MoU signing included Vice Chairman of BPK, Agus Joko Pramono, Board Member I of BPK, Hendra Susanto, Board Member III of BPK, Achsanul Qosasi, Board Member V of BPK, Bahrullah Akbar, and Board Member VII of BPK, Daniel Lumban Tobing.
Further, Chairman of BPK explains that synergy and coordination with BPKP is needed to provide high quality state financial management. In his view, synergy between BPK and BPKP is built based on strong will not only to better state financial management effectively and efficiently, but also to establish accountable state financial management.
"Both BPK and BPKP wish for intensifying synergy and coordination in which detail explanation of the synergy and coordination are agreed and written in the MoU," he said.
Chairman of BPK elaborates that agreed cooperation written in the MoU includes exchanging information and/or data, using of auditor service, and conducting joint audit of some specified issues.
The cooperation also includes some agreements on BPKP’s internal supervisory to accelerate and encourage entities to take immediate follow-up actions on audit recommendations made by BPK, on close coordination for fulfilling a request by law enforcement agencies for calculation of state/regional financial loss, on organizing education, training, research and development for capacity development required by both BPK and BPKP.
"To face and anticipate current challenges that keep growing, scope of the cooperation and collaboration between BPK and BPKP has been expanded by adding more synergies in auditing/supervising as well as in organizational capacity development," he conveyed.
"We hope the MoU signing between BPK and BPKP may bring in BPK’s vision to be a trusted audit institution that plays an active role in fostering state finance with high-quality and useful financial governance to achieve state objective," he said.
Having deeper synergy, closer collaboration, and better cooperation with BPKP than before, Chairman of BPK hopes both audit and supervision state financial management and accountability carried out by BPK and BPKP will generate more benefits for the people.
"Let’s build collaboration and improve synergy with the aim of establishing higher quality state financial management for national goals, for better BPK and BPKP, and for better Indonesia," he closed his remarks.
Organized in hybrid mode, both virtual and limited physical attendance, high-level officials both in BPK and in BPKP, some employees, and representatives of mass media attended the MoU signing.