The Audit Board of Indonesia (Indonesian: ''Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan Republik Indonesia'', literally ''Financial Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia'') is a high state body in Indonesia which is responsible for evaluation of management and accountability of state finances conducted by the central government, local governments, Bank Indonesia,
state-owned enterprises
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, the Public Service Board, and institutions or other entities which manage state finances.
History
The body was initially established under the name ''National Supervision Board'' at
Magelang
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,
Central Java
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Bogor
Bogor ( su, , nl, Buitenzorg) is a city in the West Java province, Indonesia. Located around south of the national capital of Jakarta, Bogor is the 6th largest city in the Jakarta metropolitan area and the 14th overall nationwide.Center for International Forestry Research, 2015. The Board has increasingly tackled environmental issues, revealing in 2014 that the Ciliwung River had been polluted by seventeen separate companies, submitting its report to the police.
As of 2015, the Audit Board of Indonesia was chairing the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions' Working Group on Environmental Auditing.
In 2016, Board chairman
Harry Azhar Azis
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Biography
Harry Azhar Azis was a legislator in the People's Representative Council from 2003 to 2014. He was the head of the Audit Board of Indonesia from 2014 ...
was implicated in the
Panama Papers
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due to a previously registered blank company which he hadn't reported. Azis claimed that the company was merely a registered name on paper which he had started for his oldest daughter, but then sold to someone else after his appointment as Board chairman in December 2014.Harry Azhar Azis: The blank company is for my child Tempo, 13 April 2016. Accessed 6 November 2016.
Chair of the Audit Board
The following people have held the position of Chair of the Audit Board since 1947.
Powers
The Board is the highest body within the Indonesian government in terms of state financial accountability and management. Their work ranges from the national to local levels, and they have offices in every province in Indonesia.