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Dr. Mochtar Riady Law Fair 2014 ? Seminar: Combating Corruption by UPH Faculty of Law and BPK

17/03/2014 Uncategorized

Dr. Mochtar Riady Law Fair 2014 ? Seminar: Combating Corruption by UPH Faculty of Law and BPK

UPH Faculty of Law once again held the Dr. Mochtar Riady Law Fair 2014, from March 12 to March 14, 2014.

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 (Left) Hadi Poernomo dan John Riady in Q&A session (Right) Hendar Ristriawan Secretary General of BPK, Sapto Amal Damandari Member of BPK and Hadi Poernomo Head of BPK with Leaders of UPH Faculty of Law
 

UPH Faculty of Law once again held the Dr. Mochtar Riady Law Fair 2014, from March 12 to March 14, 2014. This biennial-event was opened with seminars, ?The Role of Supreme Audit Board in Combating Corruption? presented by the Head of Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan ? BPK (Supreme Audit Board) Hadi Poernomo and ?Eksistensi Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK)? (The Existence of Financial Services Authority) presented by Head of OJK Commissioner Board, Muliaman D Hadad. Both of these topics concerned with the current condition where corruption cases are ever-growing and furthermore, majority of Indonesia society has not yet understood well the role of these organizations. BPK is one of seven national organizations that have the same position with the President and has an important role to uphold, combating corruption through planning, managing and supervising APBN (State Budget). Meanwhile, OJK has a duty to implement management and supervisor systems that are integrated to every monetary service sectors. By inviting these two organizations, UPH Faculty of Law hoped that public, particularly students, are encouraged to commit theirselves in combating Indonesia corruption cases.

 
The first session of the seminars was attended by BPK member Sapto Amal Damandari, BPK General Secretary Hendar Ristriawan, UPH Rector Jonathan L. Parapak, UPH President Raymond Liu, Executive Dean of Business School, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Social and Faculty of Political Sciences John Riady, Faculty of Law Dean Bintan R. Saragih, Faculty of Law Director Susi Susantijo, as well as students from UPH and universities in Jabodetabek area. The seminar began with the national anthem Indonesia Raya, traditional dances, a brief presentation of UPH Faculty of Law, and then the session was officially opened with a gong ringing and remarks from the Event Chairman Faculty of Law Senate Chairman, and UPH Rector.

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 Jonathan L. Parapak expressed his appreciation for the committee?s efforts.
In his remarks, UPH Rector Jonathan L. Parapak expressed his appreciation for the committee?s efforts. ?This important event, which proposed by the students, encourage all of us to contribute our commitment in combating corruption. This intention is also one of dreams that UPH want to pursue, thus, we will relentlessly proclaim UPH vision: True Knowledge, Faith in Christ and Godly Character. Let godly characters color our life, so that we can commit to live in a high integrity life,? he remarked.
 
In his explanation of BPK efforts in preventing the state budget corruption, Hadi affirmed three points for BPK groundwork, there are independence, integrity, and professionalism.  He further described BPK?s efforts in accomplishing a stable state budget as well as the ?CCTV? installation to electronically supervise the state budget. 

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 Hadi Poernomo as the speaker of seminar
Out of these efforts, in the first semester of 2013, BPK had detected 5.747 flaws from SPI, 2.854 administrative deviations, and 2.854 cases of wasted, ineffective, inefficient budget worth of Rp 46.24 trillion. ?BPK is now focusing more on the preventive measures than the countermeasures towards the corruption that has become systematic,? Hadi explained. According to him, there are many factors that prompted corruption cases. Usually, the actor has evil intentions and notices the inadequacy in the surveillance system and the opportunities to do so. Therefore, BPK is implementing a National Synergy System to close every possible opening for corruption to happen. In accordance to BPK authority, as stated in article 10 UU 15/2004, this system will act as one solid data resource to assist the monitoring of any state monetary activity. 

?This breakthrough method is not going to be executed directly because it needs to follow the legal frameworks. This is to make sure that the method will work side-by-side with the current law and supported by the state institution leaders. Another preventive measure is by checking online the flow of document through the data center, with the permission from the owner. This is one of the benefits from e-audit method,? Hadi described.

 
In the Q&A session, Hadi got many well-asked questions; one of them is about BPK limitation in accessing tax data. This question was raised by UPH Faculty of Law lecturer, Jongker Sihombing. Hadi replied, ?We strive to follow the existing laws and rules when we carry out our duty. However, if the data is deemed to be a secret, then let it be a national secret. We still have to perform under the law. This is the reason why BPK decided to establish a data center that I have explained previously, to search for individual?s information that we want to check from one reliable data source.?

At the end of Q&A session, Hadi Poernomo expressed his wish that BPK?s efforts to establish a transparent, accountable and corruption-free state budget get a lot of supports. He further commented that this task inevitably will be a hard one, thus, BPK is always open to receive constructive criticisms for introspection.  Lastly, he hoped that through this event, students and academicians can provide aspirations for BPK improvement. (ca) 

 

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Lectures and students from universities around Indonesia attended the seminar 

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President of UPH gave a token of appreciation for BPK
 

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