‘’Lacang kuning berlayar malam, Haluan Menuju kelaut dalam, kalaulah nahkoda kuranglah paham, alamatlah kapal akan tenggelam’’
Yellow sassy song lyrics, composed by Sulaiman Sjafe’i
The sassy yellow poem is guided by the atmosphere of Bengkalis which is currently being hit by a leadership crisis, is it not? The reason is that it has been two periods starting from Herliyan Saleh’s government when he served as regional head in 2012–2016 and continued with Amril Mukminin who was elected as regent with a term of office 2016–2020 and then on 26 February 2021 Kasmarni and Bagus Santoso were appointed as captains to continue the previous leadership relay.
Based on the description of the events that occurred in Bengkalis Regency, many stories of endless drama were written. The cause, corruption is the root of the problem. Starting from the Social Assistance Case, the BLJ Corruption Case with Equity Participation, to the Multiyers Road Improvement and Construction Corruption Case.
From this series, when viewed from the trend of 2016-2018. FITRA Riau’s record of state losses due to corruption amounting to IDR 143.8 billion. As for the actor involved, the most dominating is the legislature as well as two regents and one deputy regent. Of course, the bureaucrats, namely the heads of services, and ASN personnel were also heavily involved in corruption scandals in Bengkalis Regency.
There are various modes of corruption cases, ranging from fictitious project activities, budget abuse, mark-ups, bribery, embezzlement. Circumcision, budget cuts, abuse of authority, gratuities, even illegal levies, so it becomes a concern that Bengkalis is a red zone in Riau in a circle of corruption.
Reviewing the regional head’s commitment before visiting iron bars, without denying the presence of the regional head in the regional head election contestation, of course, it is hoped that it will solve various problems ranging from poverty, improving education and health services, good infrastructure, and reducing unemployment by increasing people’s welfare and providing jobs .
Looking at the huge Bengkalis Regency Revenue data in Riau Province, in 2020 alone it reached IDR 3,524 trillion while in 2021 it was IDR 3,224 trillion. Regional revenues are at least able to create better government programs and answer various problems to improve people’s welfare, if the regional head as captain, focuses on controlling and holding trustful positions properly without having to break commitments that result in acts of corruption in his position.
Let’s take a look, for example in the case of Herliyan Saleh who was involved in the corruption of social assistance, BLJ capital participation grants, and bribery in the multiyers project, together with DPRD chairman Jamal Abdillah, Heru Wahyudi and other DPRD members who are convinced they are guilty. proven by a court decision that sentenced him to 9 years in prison, a fine of IDR 500 million or a subsidiary of 8 months in prison. Herliyan is the initial story of a regional head in Bengkalis district who stumbled on a corruption case. So what about the story of Amril Mukminin and his Deputy Regent Muhammad who were both entangled in the rasuah case? …
The difference is that Amril was involved in the case of the multiyers project in Bengkalis Regency, while Muhammad, the Deputy Amril, was involved in corruption in the PDAM transmission pipe in Tembilahan in 2013 worth Rp. 3.8 billion when he was the head of the division at the Cipta Karya Service, Public Works, Riau Province.
The leadership of Amril and Muhammad did not reach the end of the term, Amril who was detained by the KPK and Muhammad was on the run as a prisoner of the Riau Regional Police. Amril is very interesting to review, when viewed from his political career history, starting with becoming a village head, then in 2004 he advanced to the Bengkalis DPRD election with a Golkar boat, for three periods. However, in his third period he convinced himself to rise to the level of regional head in Bengkalis and succeeded in excelling among his competitors, one of whom was Herliyan Saleh when he was the regent of defense and the prosecutor had named him a suspect in the social assistance case in Bengkalis Regency.
In the indictment of the KPK prosecutor and the facts of the trial. That Amril had also received bribes from the company PT Citra Gading Asritama (CGA) and received the tonnage of palm oil given by Jonny Tjoa and Adyanto. Since July 2013, Amril became a member of the DPRD until he became regent. Amri received the palm oil tonnage money. The money was handed over by Jhony Tjoa in the amount of IDR 12,770,330,650 billion which was sent through the CIMB Niaga Syariah Bank owned by Kasmarni, the wife of Amril Mukminin and directly given by Adyanto to Kasmarni in the amount of IDR 10,907,412,755 and Amril in the past court session admitted the truth of receiving money from owner of the company.
Judging from Amril’s confession and the description of the facts at the trial, Amril had violated his authority as regent, but unfortunately the issue of gratuities presented by the witness before the panel of judges and read out in the prosecutor’s indictment also failed to touch the judge’s heart that Amril had been involved in the circle of gratuities.
In the process of the case, finally the Pekanbaru High Court sentenced him to six years in prison, a fine of Rp. 500 million in the corruption case involving the construction and improvement of roads. Meanwhile, regarding the facts of the trial regarding the gratification case received by Amril by Jhony Tjoa and Adyanto, the judge stated that the gratification was not proven. So that the KPK prosecutor took cassation legal action because the KPK prosecutor saw that there was a mistake in the judge’s decision, especially related to this decision.
From a series of history of embezzlement corruption cases, the Corruption Eradication Commission stated that it would conduct an appeal but until now, criticism has been made as a public review. The public hasn’t heard how the KPK is progressing, especially in the development of the multi-layer case in Bengkalis Regency, which still leaves dirty dishes. and the development of company bribes to emeritus of faith, one of which is that there is an element of gratification in the series of public amril positions as a DPRD member and as Regent in Bengkalis Regency. Hopefully the Corruption Eradication Commission will not catch a cold and will soon complete its investigation for a better future for Bengkalis in eradicating corruption.
BROUGHT, NOT BEAUTIFUL WRONG BLOOD
Kasmarni, who is Amril Mukminin’s wife, stated in court facts that she received money from the oil palm plantation company to her husband, where the money entered his account and was received directly by him, has now been appointed district head. Bengkalis replaced her husband, Amril. If you look at history, Kasmarni was the first female figure in Riau to become the head of the “regent” area who was appointed, (26/2/2020)
Seeing his actions in the world of bureaucracy, of course, Kasmarni has a good vision and mission to run the wheels of government administration, moreover his vision is “The realization of a dignified, advanced and prosperous Bengkalis Regency”. Further described in the third mission. if observed closely, that Kasmarni wants to realize bureaucratic reform and strengthen religious and cultural values towards good governance and a society with character.
Translating this mission, of course Kasmarni will design programs and activities to realize this mission. The thing that the people of Bengkalis are most looking forward to is their anti-corruption mission. Anticipated, to improve Bengkalis better and is the root of the problem to answer how dilapidated the bureaucracy used to be. Starting from the knocking hammer scandal at the DPRD in budget discussions, sharing projects between colleagues, DPRD, requests for allocations from project fees, minimal information disclosure, there is no space for public participation to receive input related to the formulation of strategic policies and public oversight which has been not seen by its predecessor to open and carry out the mandate of the Law Regulations.
For example, one of them, although in the context of information disclosure, the results of the Information Commission’s assessment got a good score, but judging by the facts, starting from being proactive in disclosing information on the budget, procurement, contract documents and other sectors, it is also not in accordance with the ranking results and of course there are only people who conduct an information dispute to the information commission.
Kasmarni, who is the first female figure to become regent in Bengalis, certainly doesn’t want her to go on the wrong path following in her husband’s footsteps, Kasmarni, with her power as captain of Bengkalis in the next five years, should give as much confidence to the public that her leadership is a mandate for her and has the ambition to improve Bengkalis is better and stays away from corrupt practices and focuses on the program carrying out its mission to build people’s welfare and improve access to services and the bureaucratic system which has so far looked bad.
If Kasamarnni had ambitions to become regent in the yesterday’s local election procession, then his ambition in reforming Bengkalis must be the same when he became a regent candidate. Therefore, the principles of transparency, accountability, participation and collaboration in administering governance must be in line with his commitment.
Things that need to be designed to be the main agenda in Kasmarni’s 100 working days as the author’s input are First, provide space for the public to be involved in the administration of government according to the mandate of PP 45 of 2017 to open space for public participation in supervision, planning, discussion and monitoring of supervision. second, opening up collaboration spaces with Korsupgah KPK and Civil society (CSO) to jointly create a clean bureaucracy and improve a good bureaucratic system to improve welfare, excellent service and free from indications of corruption, third Ensuring better information disclosure performance, proactive, easily accessible to the public by disclosing information regarding Budget policies (APBD, DPA, LAKIP, KUA PPAS, etc.), Information on procurement of goods, Documents for Procurement of contracts, Licensing Information and information regarding natural resource management, fourthly Fixing, Budgeting Management which is more efficient, less wasteful and places a standard measurement measure as a clear indicator of OPD performance achievements in the implementation of government programs. Fifth Make or compile a Corruption Prevention Action Plan to improve vulnerable sectors such as the procurement of goods and services, licensing, health, education, environment and natural resources by involving public CSO elements.
Thus, the public awaits Kasmarni and Bagus Santoso’s actions in improving the lord’s country, to end the corruption in this lord’s country. and most importantly, don’t let Kasmarni and Bagus Santoso have a shadow team that is conditional on interests, especially the one that is most vulnerable ahead of the 6 months ahead is related to job transfers, don’t hear about buying and selling positions let alone awarding public positions to the bureaucracy involved in the winning team by selecting the panel and does not participate in the panel intervention. When you become the captain of the head of the regional head ‘Regent’, then you should bet personal good name to create a clean Bengkalis. ***
Pekanbaru, 27 February 2020
Author Taufik, Advocacy Manager, FITRA Riau Network Development
