BPKP KO'd, KKN OK?

BPKP KO'd, KKN OK?

From Republika

The 1945 Constitution on state finances puts the President in a hard position. The President does not have the authority to fully arrange the supervisory function of state finance. He cannot set up a supervisory institution to assist him in running the administration as it would be against the Constitution. On the other hand, the President should be capable of carrying out the stipulation of the People's Consultative Assembly to eradicate corruption, collusion and nepotism (KKN).

The dissolution of the Development Finance Comptroller (BPKP) through constitution amendment indicates the existence of a political conspiracy. While trying to seek good governance through the eradication of KKN, BPKP, which is the main source of uncovering KKN in the government, is dissolved. Where will BPKP's findings on KKN be discarded? The KKN practitioners will be happy because they are being indirectly backed by legislators in eliminating the tracks of their crimes.

All this time the issue of the imbalance of supervisory power is often described as the pendulum is swinging toward the government. Ironically, in seeking to establish a balance of power, we are trapped in our thinking that what we need is the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) as the only external supervisory apparatus, which factually is moving the pendulum toward the legislators. This is definitely a systematic castration of the balance of power.

DANI SUDARSONO

Jakarta