Audit agencies coordinate jobs to avoid overlapping

Audit agencies coordinate jobs to avoid overlapping

JAKARTA (JP): The Government Audit Agency (BPKP), an internal
government auditing body, will submit its auditing results to the
Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) beginning next year to avoid an
overlapping of jobs, an official says.

"BPK will not audit the spending of government institutions if
we consider BPKP's auditing adequate," BPK Chairman J.B. Sumarlin
told reporters after meeting with President Soeharto at the
Merdeka Palace yesterday.

BPKP is assigned by the government to inspect and audit the
spending of government institutions, including companies owned by
the government and local administrations. It then reports the
findings to the government. BPK inspects the government's
spending as a whole and submits its auditing results to the House
of Representatives twice a year.

Sumarlin said the relationship between BPKP and other
governmental audit bodies on the one hand, and with BPK on the
other, will be arranged by a system of working mechanisms now
being formulated by the supreme agency with the aim of improving
the efficiency and effectiveness of auditing procedures in
governmental institutions.

Besides BPKP, the government also assigns inspectorate
generals to audit the spending of ministries and institutions
affiliated to it.

"We are finalizing the formulation of auditing practices and
have discussed matters related to it with President Soeharto,"
said Sumarlin, who is a former minister of finance.

He said BPKP will also improve cooperation with international
and regional organizations of supreme auditors, such as the 164-
member International Organization of Supreme Auditors and the 25-
member Association of Asian Supreme Auditors, to increase its
auditing capabilities.(riz)