Secretary-General Heru Setiawan receiving BPK’s audit report on the Court’s 2023 financial statements from III.A audit manager Hanif Mohamad Taufik, Wednesday (7/17/2023). Photo by MKRI/Ilham W.M.

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JAKARTA (MKRI) — The Constitutional Court (MK) received another consecutive unqualified (WTP) opinion award from the Audit Board (BPK) on its financial report of 2023 on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. The award was received directly from III.A audit manager Hanif Mohamad Taufik by Secretary-General Heru Setiawan.

In his speech, Heru emphasized that there should be no fraud in BPK’s audit process. He revealed that fraud is something that Chief Justice Suhartoyo and himself had been worried about because it would signify bad faith from among employees to commit fraud.

Heru said that the auditor’s audit method is to have a good discussion on matters that must be fulfilled. He said that the Court always implements every recommendation from BPK auditors during the audit process and these recommendations had been very helpful for the Court in preparing financial reports.

In his remarks, Hanif Mohamad Taufik explained that this audit was a form of assessment of an institution to see whether the financial statements that presented met state financial accounting standards or not. He said that this audit was not to judge whether the report was right or wrong, but to judge whether it was fair or not.

Hanif revealed that the follow-up monitoring showed that the Constitutional Court had been following up BPK recommendations consistently. He said that the audit covered financial reports, internal control systems, and compliance with laws and regulations.

The Constitutional Court has received the WTP predicate from BPK for its financial statements for 18 consecutive years.

Author              : Ilham M.W.
Editor               : Lulu Anjarsari P.
Translators        : M. Ariva Aswin Bahar/Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)

Disclaimer: The original version of the news is in Indonesian. In case of any differences between the English and the Indonesian versions, the Indonesian version will prevail.

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