Representatives of the Government and the House of Representatives delivered a response to testing of the Law on State Finance and the Law of the People’s Consultative Assembly, House of Representatives, Regional Representatives Council and the Regional Representatives Council (MD3 Act) in court on Wednesday (5/6) at the Plenary Court Room.

Present on the occasion, Member of Parliament Ruhut Poltak Sitompul. In a statement, Ruhut said that the involvement of Parliament in setting the state budget revenue and expenditure (budget) is a manifestation of Section 20A subsection (1) and Article 23 paragraph (1) and (2) of the Constitution of 1945. "So the state of financial management should be professional, open, and responsible and in accordance with the basic rules that have been specified in the 1945 Constitution," he said.

In addition, said Ruhut, Parliament involvement in the determination of the state budget was also discussed with the President in order to realize effective management of the state budget. Therefore, the House formed council fittings (AKD) in favor of the budget function in preparing the budget.

"Establishment AKD professional should be better and better in terms of quality and position within the structure of the House of Representatives fittings. Reinforcement is done by changing the nomenclature committee budget is more literally or at least meaningful while being budget agencies that are more permanent institution,"he said.

Meanwhile, the determination of the composition and membership of the Budget (Banggar) according to the balance and distribution of the number of members of each faction at the beginning of the membership of the House of Representatives and at the beginning of the hearing in accordance with Article 105 paragraph (1) of MD3, said Ruhut, arranged in order to strengthen the management state finances conducted in an open and responsible aiming for the maximum prosperity of the people besanya sebagaimna set out in the Constitution.

In line with the opinion of the House, Advisor to Interior Minister for Political, Legal, and Inter-Agency Reydonnyzar Moenek, pointed out that the involvement of Parliament in the discussion of the implementation of the state budget is a function of the House of Representatives as specified in the 1945 Constitution. "In essence, the right of the House budget to ensure that the draft budget proposed by the government in accordance with Article 23 paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution," he said.

Reydonnyzar stated, Budget discussion is a conversation that is strategic in the preparation of the state budget to realize the goal state. The discussion has considered the input all commissions in the House. "In principle, in carrying out their duties banggar only discuss the budget allocation has been decided by the commission," he said.

In the case of blocking, advanced Reydonnyzar, this usually happens because of technical reasons, because sometimes the new government can deliver the activities of the outline and have not submitted details of the activities in detail. "The occurrence of blocking a conditional approval to a budget," he said.

According to him, the inclusion of an asterisk can be accounted for by the House of the legislature. Where this does not diminish the authority of the House of Representatives to conduct surveillance, while the executives of the guaranteed funding so that governance is not hampered. (Dodi / mh)