Finance Minister Admits to Budget Leakage in BGN Motorcycle Procurement: It Has Been Fixed

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa has admitted that there was a budget leakage related to the procurement of motorcycles for the National Nutrition Agency (BGN), even though the government had previously rejected the plan. Purbaya assured that in the future, budget management will be tightened to ensure that state expenditure is timely and on target without any leakages. “In the future, we will continue to ensure this, and spending institutions will be timely and on target, with no leakages,” Purbaya stated during the APBN KiTa press conference in Jakarta on Tuesday (5/5/2026). Purbaya explained that the leakage occurred due to a loophole in the system that allowed the budget to pass despite being rejected in the initial process. According to him, the procurement was rejected in principle. However, there was a certain process that enabled the budget to be released anyway. “So we correctly rejected it, but there was a leakage from a certain event that bypassed it, so it was released temporarily,” he clarified. Purbaya emphasised that improvements to the budgeting system have been made to close similar loopholes and prevent recurrence in the future. A few days ago, controversy surrounding the BGN’s electric motorcycle procurement emerged in the public sphere after a viral video on social media showed dozens of vehicles bearing the BGN logo. In the video uploaded by the TikTok account @NOVIR007 on Monday (6/4/2026), it was mentioned that there were tens of thousands of electric motorcycles reportedly for just one region. “I’m spilling this: there are 70,000 motorcycles for the West Java province alone. Now, are these for all employees or just the SPPG kitchen heads? I’m not sure, I don’t want to spread hoaxes, but clearly, these 70,000 units are for West Java province only,” the person said. Head of the National Nutrition Agency Dadan Hindayana later confirmed that the electric motorcycles were indeed part of BGN’s operational facilities to support the implementation of the Free Nutritious Meals programme, particularly for SPPG heads in various regions.