OPTIMALISASI FUNGSI PENGAWASAN DPRD PROVINSI RIAU TERHADAP ALOKASI ANGGARAN PERCEPATAN PENANGANAN PANDEMI COVID-19 MELALUI APBD TAHUN 2020

Abstract

In a democratic country, the existence of a Regional People's
Representative Council or referred to as a legislative body is a must. The reason
is that the legislature is the people's representative in making laws or regional
regulations that will be applied to the people. By law the DPRD has the most
strategic position in carrying out the supervisory function of local governments.
One of the central council functions is the supervisory function, while the actions
referred to by the institution are more preventive in nature which implies
evaluating and supervising local government programs. Likewise in Riau
Province, the Riau Provincial DPRD has supervised the use of the budget for the
acceleration of the handling of the Covid-19 Panemdi in the 2020 APBD. As
stated in the explanation of Article 41 of Law Number 32 of 2014 concerning
Regional Government, it states that "DPRD has functions, among others
legislative function, supervisory function and budget function.
This type of research is empirical juridical research or sociological
legal research, namely a research approach that emphasizes the legal aspects
regarding the subject matter to be discussed, linked to the reality in the field. This
research was conducted at the Riau Provincial DPRD Office and with
Constitutional Law Experts in the city of Pekanbaru. while the sample population
is the whole party related to the problem under study. Sources of data used are
primary data and secondary data, data collection techniques in this study is by
observation, questionnaires, interviews and literature review.
In the results of the research problem there are two main things that can
be concluded. First, in optimizing the supervisory function of the Riau Provincial
DPRD on the use of the budget for the acceleration of handling the COVID-19
pandemic in the 2020 APBD, it went quite well. The second is that the inhibiting
factor for the DPRD's supervision of the APBD is the factor of the Regional
Government.
Keywords : Optimizing DPRD Functions – Budget Allocation – APBD