Summary: | The Article 7 of the Government Regulation Number 8 of 2006 on Financial
Reporting and the Performance of Local Institutions states that a balance is a report that
describes the asset-based financial position of a local government, accountability and
fund equity. One of the elements of the assets that significantly influences the balance
and in turn the quality of the local financial report is permanent asset, especially
property. Since its establishment to 2008 the province of Gorontalo has developed the
management of local assets following the regulation of central government that is at
present implemented through the Home Affairs Minister�s Regulation Number 17 of
2007 on the technical guideline of local assets management. However, the actual case is
that the management of the data of the local government�s assets, including land,
buildings, motorized vehicles and equipments owned by SKPD has not well-managed. It
causes the difficulty in exactly making the inventory of the assets and also less optimal
management of the assets.
Based on the above description, the author intends to investigate the extent to
which the provincial government of Gorontalo, especially the general and public
relation bureau has implemented the Home Affairs Minister�s Regulation Number 17 of
2007 viewed from 4 aspects, which are the planning of goods requirements, the
implementation of the goods procurement, the change in the legal status of the goods,
and the effectiveness in the management of the local assets. It uses a survey method
with questionnaires that are distributed to 53 respondents of the local assets managing
apparatus.
The results of the analysis of the questionnaire responses of the 53 respondents
are 55 percent or 29 respondents state that the implementation of the Home Affairs
Minister�s Regulation Number 17 of 2007 in Gorontalo province is very low based on
the four indicators of the study.
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