Donggala not Rich, Kasman Buy Alphard

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Source: Kumparan.com

DONGGALA IS Categorized as an underdeveloped area in Central
Sulawesi Province. The oldest regency in Central Sulawesi together with Parigi
Moutong which blooms from Donggala, including underdeveloped areas based on the
BPS release per February 2019.

Although classified as a disadvantaged area, the
Regent, Kasman Lassa, now has a white Toyota Alphard type car purchased at the
beginning of 2019.

The purchase of the national car also coincided
with the disaster recovery period after the cities of Palu, Donggala and Sigi
were hit by earthquakes, tsunamis and liquefaction on September 28, 2018.

Based on the PaluPoso search, Tuesday
(03/12/2018), the budget for the purchase of Alphard cars was sourced from the
Donggala Regency Regional Budget (APBD) which was not included in the
discussion of the Donggala Regency DPRD Budget Body (Banggar).

The ceiling for the purchase of luxury vehicles
reached more than Rp 1 billion, while the market in Toyota’s show room
dealerships, the price is around Rp 950 million.

One observer of Donggala, Anil Syamsudin,
regretted that the purchase of luxury vehicles was considered 
to be a waste of
budget for needs that were not too important.

“The procurement of new official cars is
redundant and does not need to be done in the midst of poor infrastructure
development in Donggala,” Anil said on Wednesday (03/13/2019).

The reason is that there are still many
inter-village connecting roads and bridges in the Donggala regency that are
classified as ugly and not yet worthy of being passed by a luxury official
vehicle like the Alphard.
The purchase of luxury cars is also considered to
hurt the hearts of the people. In Donggala there are still many people who live
in the midst of poverty, while their officials are in fact relaxing with their
luxury cars.
“The procurement of luxury cars is not urgent
in the midst of the condition of road and bridge infrastructure which is still
underdeveloped, what else do we know that Donggala has been hit by the
earthquake and tsunami disaster,” he said.

Many social problems in Donggala are still far
more feasible than budget luxury cars.

“Official vehicles that were only a few years
earlier were still very feasible to support the operation of the Donggala
Regent,” he said.

Chairman of the Central Sulawesi Corruption
Monitoring Agency, Tamsil, was asked for his response saying, for the first
time in Central Sulawesi, district head officials at the regent level level
used Toyota Alphard official vehicles with police number DN 1 B, meaning
official car of Donggala Regent Kasman Lassa. “Of course this is a public
conversation,” he said.

According to him, the Donggala Regent bought the
Alphard official car with a quite fantastic budget, does not reflect the
simplicity and condition of Donggala Regency which is still said to be not
perfect in terms of the economy. Moreover, the condition of Donggala is still
classified as a disadvantaged area in Central Sulawesi Province.

One of the members of the Donggala Regency DPRD
Banggar, Asegaf, was met in one of the Jakarta regional police offices not yet
willing to comment further on purchasing the Toyota Alpard regent official car.
But he admitted, the budget for the purchase of Toyota Alpard official cars was
not discussed in the budget submission in the Budget Board (Banggar) of the
Donggala Regency DPRD.
“I’m a member of Banggar, we don’t discuss
it,” he said.

For more details, Asegaf suggested meeting the
Chairperson of the Donggala DPRD. “It is better to confirm the chairman of
the House,” he said.

Actually Asegaf said, there was a schedule for the
planned hearing in relation to the purchase of the Toyota Alphard official car.
But until now it has not been implemented. “The letter has not yet been
filed, I’ll let you know,” he said.

The officials invited to attend the hearing were
officials from the Donggala District Regional Financial and Asset Management
Agency (BPKAD), and a number of other parties involved in purchasing the
Alphard car.

The information that PaluPoso collected in the
Donggala Regency DPRD, indeed there was a discussion of the purchase of
official cars by the Donggala DPRD, but not for the Donggala Regent. But the
official car of the Head of Donggala Bappeda, Rustam Efendi.

The Regional Secretary of Donggala Regency, Aidil
Nur, confirmed that the matter claimed not to know. “I don’t know, sir,
it’s better if we meet sir,” he said via SMS or short message on Thursday
(03/14/2019).**

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