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JAKARTA, BPK Public Relations – In order to disseminate the results of BPK’s audits to the public through mass media, the Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia (BPK) organized a Media Workshop on Overviewing the Summary of Audit Reports of the Second Semester of 2019 (IHPS II 2019). As a form of communication with the stakeholders, the workshop was conducted through a video conference on Monday.

Followed by Journalists from print, electronic and online media, the workshop was officially opened by the BPK Secretary General, Bahtiar Arif, and presented resource persons namely BPK Chairman, Agung Firman Sampurna, BPK Vice Chairman, Agus Joko Pramono, Director General of Audit Planning, Evaluation and Development, Slamet Kurniawan, and Director General of Audit II, Laode Nusriadi.

The workshop was conducted for two hours with an interactive question-and-answer method between participants and resource persons. During the workshop, resource persons presented the executive summary of the IHPS II 2019, objects, conclusion, findings and recommendations of the performance audit on the effectiveness of the management of central government’s liabilities to ensure minimum funding and controlled risks and fiscal sustainability for year 2018 and the special-purposed audit on the supervision on General Bank by the Financial Services Authority (OJK) and related agencies for the period of 2017-2019.

Responding the question on settlement and distribution of the underpayment of the profit sharing funds year 2019, the BPK Chairman said that the Minister of Finance does not need to wait for the result of BPK’s audit, as it was for the underpayment happened in 2018 and 2019.

"It is important to highlight that it is irrelevant to use the result of BPK’s audit as the basis for the payment of the profit sharing funds. There is not any relation between the payment of the funds by the Ministry of Finance to the DKI Jakarta Province or any other regional governments and the result of the BPK’s audit," he stated. In this regard, on April 28, 2020, BPK has sent a letter to the Ministry of Finance explaining the matter.

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In his opening remarks, the Secretary General mentioned the importance of the mass media as a strategic partner for the BPK, particularly in communicating the results of BPK’s audits to the public. This way, the public could better understand what BPK had achieved through its audit tasks.

“The synergy between BPK and mass media should be maintained with a better communication to achieve common perception, bridging the rigid and technical language of audit to be a media language that will be easily understood by the people at large,” he said.