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Greater Jakarta: BPK Jakarta chief Efdinal replaced
The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) inaugurated an insider on Thursday to head the Jakarta branch of the BPK after former chief Efdinal was moved to the BPK headquarters
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he Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) inaugurated an insider on Thursday to head the Jakarta branch of the BPK after former chief Efdinal was moved to the BPK headquarters. BPK Jakarta's new chief, Samsuddin, was previously a chief auditor at the agency.
Last year, Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) reported Efdinal to the agency's ethics council, accusing him of violating the BPK code of ethics. In a statement on its website, the ICW said that Efdinal owned a 9,618-square-meter plot of land in Pondok Kelapa Cemetery in East Jakarta that he purchased in 2005. He then offered to sell the land to the Jakarta administration, but the city claimed that it had owned the land from 1979 to 1985. In the BPK's evaluation of Jakarta's 2013 financial report, the agency included a finding on the acquisition of the land. The ICW alleged that Efdinal had a conflict of interest regarding the land.
The report was filed during the height of the conflict between Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama and BPK Jakarta because of the agency's report on the city's purchase of a 3.7-hectare plot of land adjacent to the Sumber Waras Hospital in West Jakarta.
BPK spokesman Yudi Ramdan has denied that Efdinal's replacement had any connection to the land issue and said it was part of a rejuvenation plan within the organization.
