Behind the Creation of an AI-Based Government Procurement Monitoring System

Content creator and AI expert Abil Sudarman has created a dashboard to detect and provide early warnings about government procurement of goods and services using artificial intelligence. The dashboard is used to track controversial government procurements of goods and services. Abil said the initial idea for this AI-based procurement monitoring system emerged amid widespread media coverage of viral government procurement cases on social media in early April 2026. For example, the procurement of a Range Rover official vehicle for East Kalimantan Governor Rudy Mas’ud worth Rp 8.5 billion and a billiard table worth Rp 486.9 million at the official residence of the South Sumatra Regional People’s Representative Council leader. “How to ensure procurements do not spark public controversy? Well, I thought, why not use AI? So, AI that detects whether a procurement is appropriate or not,” Abil told Tempo on Friday, 17 April 2026. The monitoring system is integrated with data from the General Procurement Plan Information System or SiRUP at the Government Goods/Services Procurement Policy Agency (LKPP). SiRUP LKPP is government data on goods and services procurement mandated to be shared publicly and downloadable. To integrate it with AI, Abil created an artificial intelligence model system. “I built this AI model by analysing existing procurements from the 2024 fiscal year in SiRUP. The dataset is also published on GitHub, including the source code,” he said. In this way, Abil explained, anyone can download a goods and services procurement project as a precautionary step in case the data managers later remove or take down content on SiRUP. Abil said the system uses AI Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically GPT 5.4. Through this system, artificial intelligence will check each procurement item of goods and services, numbering 3 million items at LKPP. According to Abil, the system can actually help the government monitor procurements of goods and services. “Actually, this AI system is not for me to fight the government. On the contrary, this AI system is for the government to use in preventing odd procurements, inappropriate ones that go public,” he stated. He hopes the monitoring system can be used by the central government, particularly the Ministry of Finance, to monitor untraceable procurements. Thus, the Ministry of Finance can prevent irregular and unreasonable procurements of goods and services. “But the accuracy of this system is still questionable and needs further development. It requires ongoing development assisted by the IT community, or if the government has funds, they can allocate them too,” Abil said. He stated that the government can develop this system accurately by aligning it with the Indonesia Procurement portal (INAPROC) and INA Digital. INAPROC is the national procurement portal managed by LKPP. INA Digital or GovTech Indonesia is the agency organising the integration of the digital services ecosystem. “My hope is that this is used by the government, not against it. That’s part of our check and balance as civil society, as content creators,” he said. On his Instagram account @abilsudarman, Abil has uploaded several Reels videos, a feature on Instagram for creating and sharing short vertical videos. The short videos show how the early warning system dashboard he created works in monitoring procurements of goods and services across Indonesia. “I’ve made several videos about the odd procurements we found. This uses AI, yeah. All analysed with AI, you can check them out later,” Abil said in a Reels video uploaded on Thursday, 16 April 2026. “And by the time this video is uploaded, the project should be complete, and access to the project, source code, and AI model is already available to AI researchers across Indonesia.” Abil said access and the keys have been handed over to university researchers and AI researchers in Indonesia. He also invites the public to continue the effort to push for government budget transparency. “I entrust all this to you, and let’s end all these parties,” he said.