The Training Institute of State Finance Audit (Badiklat PKN) held a webinar again with the theme Legal Aspects and Accountability in Emergencies and Its Implementation in Handling Covid-19. This activity is a form of support for the Audit of the Management and Accountability of State Finance in overcoming the Covid-19 Pandemic which is being carried out by BPK auditors. The audit of the handling Covid-19 is an audit with broad scope of tasks, therefore in carrying out the audit of handling Covid-19, synergy and good understanding of the entity is needed in order to determine the right purpose and audit scope to answer the purpose of the audit (12/11).
Present to open the activity, Board Member I of BPK Dr. Hendra Susanto, ST, M.Eng., CfrA, CSFA said that the policy implementation in emergency conditions raises potential risks, including strategic risks so that policy objectives are not achieved, compliance risk, namely violations of regulations that cause legal risk, moral hazard risk, namely authority and fraud abuse, and operational risks related to constrained policy implementation in the field. These risks arise, among others, in handling the Covid-19 pandemic.
To answer the various risks, this webinar activity was held by presenting resource persons, the Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Police ComGen. Firli Bahuri, who conveyed the role of the KPK in supporting the implementation of government policies in handling Covid-19 and the risk of fraud in the state finance management in times of crisis. Head of the Government Goods/Services Procurement Policy Institute (LKPP), Dr. Roni Dwi Susanto, M.Si. who conveyed the mechanism for controlling the procurement of goods/services in an emergency. The Head of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) represented by the Main Secretary of the BNPB, Ir. Harmensyah, Dipl. S.E., M.M. conveyed about disaster management during the Covid-19 pandemic and financial accountability mechanisms in times of emergency. Head of the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) Muhammad Yusuf Ateh, Ak., M.B.A. conveyed the BPKP policy in supporting the Covid-19 handling policy and the BPKP-APIP synergy in auditing the handling of Covid-19.
The Webinar activity was attended by 644 participants consisting of Senior and Junior officials, structural and functional officials within the Main Auditorates of State Finance, as well as Audit Team Leaders and the Audit Working Group Team on the Management and Responsibility of State Finances in Handling the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic. This webinar is held to explore the policies taken by these entities, and it is hoped that it can provide an adequate framework for auditors to plan and carry out audits so that identification, analysis and evaluation of the resulting state financial management can support efforts to deal with Covid-19. Through this webinar, it is hoped that it can encourage BPK auditors to realize transparency and accountability in auditing the management and responsibility of state finance in handling the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and identifying developing problems so that they can be immediately resolved with a solution.
The main objective of implementing this activity is to provide an understanding of the strategies and policies taken by the Government and their implementation in an effort to save the nation and state, especially in the aspects of law and accountability that affect the welfare and development of the nation and state of Indonesia in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. A comprehensive understanding of the legal and accountability aspects is expected to provide an adequate framework for auditors to plan and carry out audits so that an assessment of activities/expenditures, identification of problems and their causes and formulation of recommendations can support the government in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.