"Following the findings entities audited have sent payment to the cashiers of the national, regional administrations and companies up to Rp81.71 billion," BPK chief Hadi Pornomo said.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The State Audit Board (BPK) has discovered 4,941 cases of non-compliance that have caused losses, potential losses and income shortages worth Rp13.25 trillion based on the results of audit in the second semester 2011.

"Following the findings entities audited have sent payment to the cashiers of the national, regional administrations and companies up to Rp81.71 billion," BPK Chief Hadi Pornomo said when presenting the summary of the results of BPK audit in the second semester of 2011 at the parliament building here on Tuesday.

He said the entities` payment consisted of Rp35.99 billion to make up for the losses, Rp9.53 billion for the potential losses and Rp36.17 billion for the income shortage.

He said cases of inefficiency, ineffectiveness and spendthrift meanwhile totalled 1,056 worth Rp6.99 trillion.

"Overall the number of cases discovered reached 12,612 cases worth Rp20.25 trillion," he said.

Hadi said BPK had also conducted an audit on 158 financial reports from regional governments in 2010 and eight regional government-owned companies.

BPK has given unqualified opinions on two entities, qualified opinions on 70 entities and adverse opions on 14 entities and no opinion on 74 entities.

"In general the opinion on regional government financial reports show an improvement meaning there has been improvement in the system of regioanal financial management and accountability especally on regional financial reporting and recording," he said.

Hadi however said the system of state finance management still needs improvement as the effectiveness of the internal control system in many regional administrations is not yet optimum.

"The weakness generally includes inorderliness in policy formulation and implementation, lack of physical control on assets, weak management and control of regional cash and inaccurate and late reporting of transactions," he said.

Hadi said BPK audit on 158 regional administration financial reports discovered 1,796 cases of internal control weakness and non-compliance on regulations that caused losses, potential losses and shortage of income worth Rp1.72 trillion on 2,585 cases.

"The findings have been followed up with payment to regional or state cashiers during the process of auditing up to Rp19.1 billion," he said.

The objects of BPK audit in the second semester of 2011 consisted of central and regional government entities, state-owned companies and regional administration-owned companies and state-owned entities that manage state finance totally numbering 927 objects. (*)

Editor: Heru Purwanto
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