Audit Board of Indonesia

The Audit Board of Indonesia, also referred to as the Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia, is the high state body that responsible to check the management and accountability of state finances conducted by the central Government of Indonesia, local governments, Bank Indonesia, state-owned enterprises, the Public Service Board, and institutions or other entities that manage state finances.

History

The body was initially established under the name National Supervision Board at Magelang, Central Java during the United States of Indonesia period on 28 December 1946.[1] The Board currently functions under the latest revision to the laws governing it dating to 2006.[1][2] The Board has increasingly tackled environmental issues, revealing in 2014 that the Ciliwung River had been polluted by seventeen separate companies, submitting its report to the police.[2]

As of 2015, the Audit Board of Indonesia was chairing the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions' Working Group on Environmental Auditing.[2]

In 2016, Board chairman Harry Azhar Azis was implicated in the Panama Papers due to a previously registered blank company which he hadn't reported.[3] Azis claimed that the company was merely a registered name on paper which he had started for his oldest daughter, but then sold to someone else after his appointment as Board chairman in December 2014.[4]

Powers

The Board is the highest body within the Indonesian government in terms of state financial accountability and management.[2] Their work ranges from the national to local levels, and they have offices in every province in Indonesia.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 The Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia. ASEAN Supreme Audit Institutions. Accessed 1 November 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Fitrian Ardiansyah, Andri Akbar Marthen, and Nur Amalia, Forest and land-use governance in a decentralized Indonesia: A legal and policy review, pg. 32. Bogor: Center for International Forestry Research, 2015. ISBN 9786023870103
  3. ↑ Ayomi Amindoni, Jokowi summons BPK chairman over Panama Papers. Jakarta Post, 15 April 2016. Accessed 6 November 2016.
  4. ↑ Harry Azhar Azis: The blank company is for my child. Tempo, 13 April 2016. Accessed 6 November 2016.

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