FGD Legal Relations in Running BLU ULM Financial Business

Banjarmasin- The Asset Optimization Unit of Lambung Mangkurat University held a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) on the Legal Interrelationship in Running the BLU ULM Financial Business on Thursday (8/3/2024) at the Vice Rector’s Meeting Room 2, Rectorate Building, 2nd Floor. In this FGD, the Vice Rector for Planning, Finance and General Affairs, Dr. Ir. Arief Rahmad Maulana Akbar, M.Si., IPU, Director of the ULM Asset Optimization Unit, Dr. Ir. Muhammad Helmi, M.M. and also attended as resource persons from the South Kalimantan Province High Prosecutor’s Office, South Kalimantan Regional Police, the Financial Supervisory Agency of the Republic of Indonesia and the South Kalimantan Development Financial Supervisory Agency.

The Vice Rector for Planning, Finance and General Affairs in his speech said that ULM has been a BLU since March 2022 and is then in the process and will only get a supervisory board around March 2023. Regarding the BLU at ULM, we would like to ask for knowledge from those present today, especially , BPK, Prosecutor’s Office, BPKP, and Regional Police in relation to optimizing assets to support the teaching and learning process.

“So we are actually allowed to receive income from optimizing state-owned assets, but frankly the procedure is something new and finally friends from the asset optimization unit held an FGD in accordance with the Chancellor’s direction to always coordinate with the Republic of Indonesia BPK, South Kalimantan Regional Police, Provincial Prosecutor’s Office. South Kalimantan, and South Kalimantan BPKP”. said Dr. Arief in his speech and opened the event.

The background to today’s discussion is that the Asset Optimization Unit itself continues the mandate of Law no. 1 of 2004, Government Regulation No.27 of 2014, Government Regulation No.28 of 2020 and Minister of Finance Regulation No. 202 of 2022 which is related to how BLU is managed and focused on transformation for financial management or ULM PPK from work units to BLU which requires a strategy to increase income through business activities which is expected to support ULM performance achievement. “To create a safe and conducive environment for implementing business strategies, legal guarantees are needed from legal aspects and clarity that is legally valid, so this is our hope for later discussion.” said Dr. Helmi

“Before we carry it out, we need a lot of feedback and input from all stakeholders regarding our ideal procedures that we can implement later so that in the future we don’t encounter financial problems because we are tasked with saving finances and how we can use these finances optimally.” he added

There are 3 main achievements from the Focus Group Discussion: