Thursday, July 7 — Provincial Government (Pemprov) of Jakarta to evaluate operational permit for Aksi Cepat Tanggap (ACT) institution amidst misappropriation of donation funds allegations. According to Benni Aguscandra, Head of the Dinas Penanaman Modal dan Pelayanan Terpadu Satu Pintu (DPMPTSP) DKI Jakarta, the evaluation is going to be discussed with related Satuan Kerja Perangkat Daerah (SKPD) or regional work unit parties, one of them being social services. DPMPTSP refers to Jakarta’s Capital Investment and One-Stop Service that assists investors in obtaining fiscal facilities and information regarding investment.
Through ACT’s official website, the institution’s operational permits were released by the Provincial Government of Jakarta with permission to operate until February 25 2024. However, Benni corrects that statement as it was the PTSP who released the statement with social foundations and permits for foundation activities as the registration mark.
“We are currently discussing this matter with related SKPD,” said Benni on Wednesday (6/7) night.
The institution has been in the hot water after Tempo Magazine reported an investigation suspecting some of ACT’s leaders misappropriating donation funds. The investigation also revealed that ACT’s leaders’ salaries are approximately IDR 200 billion with its president receiving IDR 250 billion monthly.
ACT bank accounts blocked
The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) blocked 60 bank accounts in 33 banks belonging to ACT on Wednesday. This was done by the head of PPATK, Ivan Yustiavandana, in order to prevent any donations to go in or out of ACT’s accounts. From the result of the investigation done by his team, they suspect that the money received from the community to the account is not distributed as donations directly.
“We found there was a transaction in two years of IDR 30 million which turned out to be a transaction between an owner of a business who coincidentally is one of the ACT founders,” said Ivan.
Additionally, Minister of Social Affairs Ad Interim Muhadjir Effendi revoked the permit to hold the ACT Foundation’s money or goods collection (PUB) as of July 5. It was done because of ACT’s offence of taking 13,5 percent of the money donated. Hence, violating Government Regulation No. 29 of 1980 concerning the Implementation of Donation Collection which states that the foundation is allowed to take only 10 percent of the money received.
