BPK and SAI of Vietnam Strengthen Audit Capacity Through Workshop on Waste Management Audit
VIETNAM, BPK Public Relations – Chair of the Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia (BPK), Isma Yatun, had a high-level meeting with Auditor General of Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of Vietnam or the State Audit Office of Vietnam (SAV), Ngo Van Tuan. Along with the high-level meeting was 3rd Joint Workshop having a title Waste Management Audit organized in the head office of SAV in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Friday (11/8).
As part of implementation of bilateral cooperation, am workshop between SAV and BPK in 2023 serves as a forum to share knowledge and experience as well as to improve audit capacity and capability of the two institutions.
Specifically in 2023, both BPK and SAV agreed to discuss audit of waste management, explaining about audit methodology, audit finding, challenges, and lesson learnt. BPK presented Normas Andi Ahmad (Auditor at Directorate General of Audit IV) as a resource person in the workshop while SAV presented Le Tung Lam, Director General of Specialized Audit Department No. III of SAV.
At the meeting, Chair of BPK was accompanied by Director of Public Relations and International Cooperation of BPK, R. Yudi Ramdan Budiman. Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, H.E Denny Abdi, and First Secretary for Political Affairs of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Hanoi Yati Marlinawati. also attended both the meeting and the workshop.
At the meeting and workshop, the Auditor General of Vietnam was accompanied by Director General of International Cooperation Department, Nguyen Ba Dung, Director General of Regional Audit Office No. VII, Ngo Minh Kiem, Director General of General Affair Department, Vu Ngoc Tuan, Director General of Audit Policy and Quality Control Department, Nguyen Luong Thuyet, and Director General of Legal Affairs Department, Houng Phu Tho.
In her remarks, Chair of BPK appreciates and expresses gratitude to SAV for its dedication and devoted efforts in organizing the workshop. In her views, the forum provides an excellent momentum for both SAIs to learn, to build up capacity and capability, and to improve high quality audits that generate substantial impacts for the public.
In addition to it, BPK is honoured to be a partner and trusted colleague of SAV as well as a mentor for capacity and capability developments of audit in diverse fields. Explicitly, BPK agrees to provide learning and training for auditors of SAV within a topic of Forensic Audit that will be organized in the head office of SAV in Hanoi, Vietnam, in the fourth quarter of 2023.
In his remarks, Auditor General of SAV expresses his sincere gratitude and high appreciation to BPK for strong commitment and consistency that have been poured as a mentor for SAV to develop capacity in various fields of audits.
As a follow up to the bilateral cooperation, both SAIs decide to propose an organization of similar workshop with a topic, Big Data Analytics dan Digital Transformation.
As part of the agenda, Chair of BPK made a visit to SAV Regional Office No. VII. The visit aims to closely look at how audits were conducted in regional office of SAV.