Sri Mulyani touches the reason for the appointment of Ruangguru et al without tender.

YAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The existence of Ruangguru and 7 platforms. online Others in the Prakarsa 2020 Card were publicly disputed because they did not go through a bidding process. For training, the funds disbursed by the government reached 5.6 billion.

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati explained that the government did not carry out the auction process because there were indeed 8 platforms. online is not an online training provider, but only a link between course participants and providers online

“The government does not hold a tender with a digital platform because there is no organization of goods or services paid to the partners of the digital company. Therefore, there is no purchase for them,” said Sri Mulyani, quoted by the Job Card. official on Saturday (09/05/2020).

In addition to Ruangguru, there are 7 other government-appointed associate companies on the Workers Card for this year, namely Tokopedia, Bukalapak, MauWelajarWhat, HarukaEdu, PijarMahir, Sekolah.mu and Sisnaker.

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Also, said Sri Mulyani, a training scheme online The pre-employment card is based on the interests of the participants, where the government or partners are online just facilitate online training.

“The purchase to the content provider based on the interests of thousands and even millions of Workers Card participants, “said Sri Mulyani.

Meanwhile, the head of the Government Goods / Services Procurement Policy Agency (LKPP), Roni Dwi Susanto, explained that the appointment of 7 partners in the training of the Pre-Employment Card was not included in the Presidential Regulation No. 16 of 2018.

“The cooperation between the management card implementers and the digital platforms in the organization of the training is not included in the scope of the Presidential Regulation 16/2018 because the training costs are channeled directly to the participants,” said Roni.

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Therefore, Roni continued, it is not appropriate to mention the training online on the Job Card as a way of acquiring goods or services from government agencies, so it must go through a bidding mechanism.

“What is spent on training costs is the community, not the ministries / institutions, so the Pre-Employment Card program is right on target. It is very necessary for the honesty of potential participants to complete the form registration, “he said again.

Government claims are transparent

Previously, the Managing Director of Management Management Communication, Panji Winanteya Ruky, explained that the selection of training partner companies was open. But he says there are currently only eight companies that are considered ready to provide training.

“This cooperation is open in nature. There is no appointment or address. But the cooperation for digital platforms can and will meet your requirements. We are still evaluating the performance of the platform. We will add partners in the future once the program is successful. in serving the community at an early stage. ” Clear

Panji revealed, during a memorandum of understanding on March 20, the eight partners had declared their ability to become online organizers of the Pre-Employment Card training.

“Until now we are still open to develop cooperation for a capable platform. The eight that continue to be evaluated based on the services and obligations of the participants according to Permenko. At that time, the Ministry of Coordination and the KSP led the discussion The new administration was formed on March 17, “he said.

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According to Panji, the government is open to other companies that have the competition to provide training for the Workers Card program.

“If there is a digital platform that wants to work together, we are open to exploration. There are already 3 that are being explored. Partnership development is still ongoing so far, because we will add digital platforms in the future,” he said.

“Based on Perpres 36/2020, the distribution design of this program is in fact with digital channels. We started first with eight platform partners, including Sisnaker (Kemnaker) and Pijar (Telkom) who were red plate,” he said again.