REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Secretariat General of the House of Representatives (DPR) is collecting reports of working visits by the House members amid allegation of fictive working visits causing big losses in state fund.

DPR secretary general Winantuningtyastiti said she was collecting reports from the House members supposed to have made working visits.

"We are collecting reports from the House members. Many members already handed over reports of their working visits," Winantuningtyastiti said at the office of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) here on Friday.

Earlier the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) said it had found potential losses totaling Rp945.46 billion in state fund as a result of alleged fictive working visits by the House members.

It said it had found many doubtful reports of working visits that need to be verified whether there was truly working visits or not.

Winantuningtyastiti said BPK had not received all reports of working visits from the House.

"BPK is still in the process of investigations, not yet finished. BPK has yet to collect more data from the secretariat of the DPR. However, the secretariat is still collecting the report from factions," she said.

The secretariat of DPR has no authority to evaluate the reports submitted by the DPR members, whether they are false or genuine, she said, adding the one having that authority is the factions.

The suspicion of fictive working visits surfaced after the faction of the ruling PDI-P party asked its members to submit reports of the results of working visits they were supposed to have made during recess.

The order by the PDI-P faction to its member came after it received information from the DPR secretariat about the result of audit by BPK.

"So, there were working visits in doubt, whether there have been truly visits or not," deputy chairman of the PDI-P faction Hendrawan Suprapto said.

The budget for working visits by the House members has increased from year to year . This year the budget was set at Rp1.4 trillion.

Several of the working visits have been considered wasteful or unnecessary.

KPK has been asked to investigate possible misuse of the fund for cost of working visits, but the anti graft agency has not received complete report from BPK.

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