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BPK STUDYING DATA IN MALAYSIA ON ALLEGED CORRUPTION
Kuala Lumpur, Dec 10 (ANTARA) - The State Audit Board (BPK) is now visiting Malaysia and Singapore in an effort to study data on alleged corruption of natural resources and value added taxes in Indonesia, its chief Anwar Nasution said.
"Based on the law, BPK is not allowed to audit the Directorate General of Taxation. So we are trying to investigate allege corruption by studying data directly from its sources overseas," Nasution said here on Wednesday.
The BPK chairman said that besides studying the sources of corruption made by Indonesian officials from natural resource and value added taxes overseas, the visit of BPK officials to Malaysia and Singapore also had the aim of strengthening bilateral ties.
In Malaysia and Singapore, he said, he would meet the chairmen of the audit institutions and the directors general of taxes of Malaysia and Singapore to discuss how to increase bilateral cooperation.
The visits to the two countries followed many requests from regional governments in Indonesia that the audit board investigate the royalties from natural resource wealth at home.
"BPK has received many requests from regional governments that it should audit whether or not the royalties of natural resources they have received were already right," Nasution said.
Besides, the BPK will also investigate value added taxes on export restitutions in Malaysia and Singapore because it is not allowed to investigate the directorate general of taxation at home.
"We will also ask whether the local taxation directorates general are also closed to auditing institutions," he said.
"So, in essence, the aim of BPK's visits to Malaysia and Singapore is how to increase tax receipts for the state," the BPK chairman added.
On the sidelines of the visits, the BPK officials are assisted by the Indonesian embassies in popularizing its roles in the post-reform era and after disclosure of Bank Indonesia's liquidity credit assistance scam.
"We want to inform the Indonesian citizens in Malaysia on the matter directly so that they would not learn it from rumors only," Anwar Nasution, who is also former deputy senior governor of the Indonesian central bank said.
"Based on the law, BPK is not allowed to audit the Directorate General of Taxation. So we are trying to investigate allege corruption by studying data directly from its sources overseas," Nasution said here on Wednesday.
The BPK chairman said that besides studying the sources of corruption made by Indonesian officials from natural resource and value added taxes overseas, the visit of BPK officials to Malaysia and Singapore also had the aim of strengthening bilateral ties.
In Malaysia and Singapore, he said, he would meet the chairmen of the audit institutions and the directors general of taxes of Malaysia and Singapore to discuss how to increase bilateral cooperation.
The visits to the two countries followed many requests from regional governments in Indonesia that the audit board investigate the royalties from natural resource wealth at home.
"BPK has received many requests from regional governments that it should audit whether or not the royalties of natural resources they have received were already right," Nasution said.
Besides, the BPK will also investigate value added taxes on export restitutions in Malaysia and Singapore because it is not allowed to investigate the directorate general of taxation at home.
"We will also ask whether the local taxation directorates general are also closed to auditing institutions," he said.
"So, in essence, the aim of BPK's visits to Malaysia and Singapore is how to increase tax receipts for the state," the BPK chairman added.
On the sidelines of the visits, the BPK officials are assisted by the Indonesian embassies in popularizing its roles in the post-reform era and after disclosure of Bank Indonesia's liquidity credit assistance scam.
"We want to inform the Indonesian citizens in Malaysia on the matter directly so that they would not learn it from rumors only," Anwar Nasution, who is also former deputy senior governor of the Indonesian central bank said.
