Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Findings by the Supreme Audit Agency show that Jakarta tops the list of provinces responsible for the biggest losses in state funds, a leading budget watchdog revealed on Monday.

Citing audits from the second half of 2011 by the audit board known as the BPK, the Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency (Fitra) said there were 751 irregularities in the Jakarta administration's finances, resulting in losses of Rp 721.5 billion ($75.3 million) in state money.

In second place nationwide was Aceh, with 629 irregularities resulting in losses of Rp 669.8 billion.

North Sumatra was next on the list with 334 cases of shady accounting totaling Rp 515.5 billion, followed by Papua with 281 cases worth Rp 476.9 billion.

West Kalimantan accounted for 334 incidents worth Rp 289.8 billion in losses, while West Papua had 514 cases and lost Rp 169 billion. South Sulawesi recorded 589 cases and lost Rp 157.7 billion.

Following them were Riau, Bengkulu, North Maluku, East Kalimantan, South Sumatra, West Nusa Tenggara, Central Sulawesi and Bangka-Belitung.

The total losses for the whole of Indonesia were valued at Rp 4.1 trillion, according to the BPK.

Uchok Sky Khadafi, Fitra's coordinator of investigations, said that the losses could be traced back to 2008.

"The provincial administrations are no longer afraid of the results of the BPK's audits. Since 2008 they have made no efforts to make up for their losses by paying back the state treasury," he said.

He added that Fitra was now urging Jakarta's governor-elect, Joko Widodo, who takes office this Sunday, to work to clean up the city's bureaucracy within his first 100 days in office.

"Just hand over the bureaucrats involved in these state loses to law enforcement agencies," Uchok said. "If Joko can't clean up the bureaucracy, there will be a huge loss of the public trust that has currently given him the legitimacy to run the city."