Councillors reject wealth audit

Councillors reject wealth audit

BANDUNG: The Association of Provincial Legislative Councils
has told its members to defy the government's policy requiring
them to declare their wealth to the State Officials' Wealth Audit
Commission (KPKPN).

"Basically we are not objecting or afraid of the audit. We
don't mind if we are examined by foreign auditors. What we oppose
is the legal principle in relation to the wealth audit,"
spokesman for the association Bisjrie Abdul Djalil, who is also
speaker of the East Java provincial council, said over the
weekend.

The association's chairman, Eddy Walujo, who is also speaker
of the Jakarta council, said that KPKPN should first establish
provincial offices to be tasked with helping the central
commission audit provincial officials and councillors.

Concluding the meeting, the councillors agreed to send a
letter to KPKPN to convey their objections and calls to establish
a provincial audit commission.

The meeting was attended by representatives of five provincial
councils from East Java, West Java, Yogyakarta, East Kalimantan
and Jakarta. (25)