JAYAPURA - PT. The Regional Development Bank (BPD) Papua encourages local regional apparatus organizations (OPD) to start using Local Government Credit Cards (KKPD) when transacting.

In addition to accelerating the use of the budget and optimizing the realization of the budget, the use of KKPD is ensured to be safe and able to reduce the occurrence of misuse of money to findings.

"The use of KKPD in the government, especially the treasurers of these agencies, bureaus or agencies is very important".

"For this reason, we appeal to KKPD to be immediately used in local governments throughout Papua. That way, state payments and expenditures will be better and maximal and reduce the risk of mismanagement of state money," explained Papua Regional Development Bank (BPD) Operational Director Isak Samuel Wopari, in Jayapura, Tuesday (9/5/2023).

According to him, currently, Bank Papua has carried out a series of developments so that the use of KKPD can run well, even though it is a product of the ministry. 

All preparations have been made, with the hope that the implementation can run as expected so that the local government can be more advanced in regional financial management.

"The point is that this KKPD is issued to update all treasurers of the Government who will travel, for example, where they simply bring credit cards. It is also to avoid cash and practices that have been occurring between the treasurer and third parties," he said.

Previously, Papua Acting Governor Muhammad Ridwan Rumasukun stated that he was ready to support and cooperate with local banks, to realize digitalization and modernization of the government payment system, through the development of KKPD.

This support was conveyed by the Daily Executive of Papua Governor Muhammad Ridwan Rumasukun, in his statement to the press, Thursday (4/5/2023), in Jayapura, responding to the development of KKPD by Bank BPD Papua.

"The Papua Provincial Government is ready to support and cooperate with Bank Papua for the development of KKPD. This aims to realize more accountable governance to improve public welfare," he explained.

According to Governor Rumasukun, Bank Papua is a local regional bank that was selected as one of the six KKPD development pilots with other national banks.

The development of KKPD is through limited testing by Bank Indonesia and the Indonesian Payment System Association (ASPI) on 5 April - 5 May 2023. Bank Papua has been declared successful in conducting one hundred percent testing.

"We pray it can be even better in the future, in supporting the modernization and digitalization of the local government payment system," he said. ***