Regional Government's Lack of Transparency is an Obstacle to the Progress of Papua
The Minister of Finance, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, took issue with the absorption of the Papua special autonomy ( Otsus ) budget. Before long, the BPK discovered fraud worth more than Rp1.8 trillion in Papua's Special Autonomy funds. Brigadier General Achmad Kartiko, Head of the Bureau of Analysts at the National Police's Security Intelligence Agency, said the government had disbursed a special autonomy budget of IDR 33 trillion for WestPapua and IDR 93 trillion for Papua. However, the Regional Governments of West Papua and Papua Provinces misused the budget. According to Kartiko, the BPK found that Papua's Special Autonomy budget was wasted. Then, there is budget fraud. Kartiko said that his party and the BPK had found an alleged mark-up on the budget for the procurement of solar power generation facilities and labor facilities. There are also fictitious payments in the PLTA construction project worth IDR9.67 billion. Previously, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani