The 2026 budget for the Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) provincial\nlegislature\u2019s Pokok-Pokok Pikiran (Pokir, or constituency proposals) is\nsuspected of containing irregularities and anomalies worth Rp120\nbillion, and may become a budget surplus (Sisa Lebih Perhitungan\nAnggaran, or Silpa).<\/p>\n
Baiq Nelly Yuniarti, head of the NTB Regional Development Planning\nAgency (Bappeda), stressed that activities classified as anomalous or\nproblematic in the Budget Implementation Document (DPA), particularly\nthose under the revised regional budget, are expressly prohibited by\nregulations from being carried out.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlanning may have passed, yes. But this is already in the DPA. There\nare anomalies: the wrong electoral constituency, and cash grants to\none\u2019s own foundation. Those are not allowed. And, finally, the items in\nthe revised budget cannot be executed,\u201d Nelly said in Mataram on\nWednesday (21 October 2026).<\/p>\n
Nelly said technical matters and detailed investigations into the\nestimated Rp120 billion in anomalous Pokir funding fell under the remit\nof the NTB Provincial Inspectorate.<\/p>\n
She added that funding for cancelled or unexecuted Pokir activities\nwould remain unused and automatically be recorded as Silpa for 2026 by\nthe end of the budget year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere does the money go? Into Silpa. It\u2019s not necessarily all lost;\nany activity that isn\u2019t carried out this year will become Silpa,\u201d she\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Nelly said she did not know how far the Inspectorate had gone in\nsummoning technical agencies to establish what had actually been\nimplemented on the ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t see that; it\u2019s with the Inspectorate. I don\u2019t know whether\nthe Inspector has called in the technical agencies yet to check the full\nimplementation. They have shifted their focus to 2027, so apologies,\u201d\nshe added.<\/p>\n
Nelly said the Pokir anomaly issue gained prominence after the\nCorruption Eradication Commission (KPK) began handling the matter and\nproviding supervision. Following the KPK team\u2019s visit, a series of\nintensive meetings were held with the Regional Inspectorate to determine\nwhich work packages met the requirements and which did not.<\/p>\n
She indicated that the total budget frozen was not necessarily the\nfull Rp120 billion, since technical discretion could apply to projects\nthat had already been contracted before the intervention.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, because the latest position was after the KPK visit. After that\nthere were meetings at the Inspector\u2019s office. Ask the Inspector first\nwhether there were meetings where, among other things, the Inspector\nsaid that projects already under contract should continue,\u201d Nelly\nsaid.<\/p>\n
She again advised that the NTB Regional Inspector be asked directly\nfor the final figure for the cuts to anomalous Pokir funding.<\/p>\n
Thousands of Public Works Pokir Packages\nReviewed<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, the NTB Provincial Public Works and Spatial Planning\nAgency (PUPR) is conducting a comprehensive review of thousands of Pokir\nwork packages, covering both the original allocation and the revised\nbudget.<\/p>\n Lalu Wijaya Kusuma, head of the NTB Public Works, Spatial Planning\nand Housing Agency (PUPRKP), said the review began on the second day of\nthe KPK\u2019s Coordination and Supervision (Korsup) team\u2019s visit to his\noffice. All activities in public works, water management and housing\nwere temporarily halted for an audit.<\/p>\n \u201cOn its second day here, I immediately asked for a review. I stopped\nall work at Public Works. The team was here for two days, and on the\nsecond day I issued a letter requesting a review of everything and\nstopped it all temporarily. That review was then carried out,\u201d Wijaya\nsaid.<\/p>\n He said the NTB Public Works Agency had around 1,000 Pokir packages\nin its original programme, spread across roads and bridges,\nconstruction, and water management. The revised regional budget\ncontained about 200 packages.<\/p>\n \u201cFor the original budget, we have almost all of them\u2014perhaps around a\nthousand packages across roads and bridges, construction, water\nmanagement, all of it. The revised budget has perhaps around 200\npackages,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Although the packages numbered in the thousands and had contract\nvalues ranging from tens to hundreds of millions of rupiah, Wijaya said\nnone had been deliberately deleted or removed from the planning process.\nInstead, verification of planning and on-the-ground implementation had\nbeen tightened.<\/p>\n \u201cThey weren\u2019t deleted; they simply weren\u2019t included. If they had been\ndeleted, I would know the package. If they weren\u2019t included, I wouldn\u2019t\nknow\u2014that\u2019s the difference,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n Following the comprehensive review, the agency placed the packages\ninto several categories. Some were cleared, others required further\naudits because work had already started or been completed, and some\nrequired administrative or planning-stage improvements.<\/p>\n Wijaya said work that had already begun or been completed by the time\nthe KPK team arrived would not automatically be stopped altogether, but\nwould have to undergo an audit.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are several classifications, including packages that are clear\nand approved. Those that are still under review\u2014such as work already\ncompleted\u2014will be audited,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Wijaya also said the agency and its internal team found no evidence\nof packages crossing electoral constituency boundaries, despite reports\nof such cases. However, he acknowledged that some planning stages may\nhave been bypassed.<\/p>",
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