A high-ranking delegation from the State Audit of Vietnam (SAV), led by Deputy Auditor General Nguyen Quang Thanh, had a working session with the Audit Board of Indonesia (BPK) in Jakarta on November 25.
Deputy Auditor General Nguyen Quang Thanh (centre)at the working session with the Audit Board of Indonesia.(Photo: VNA)
Jakarta (VNA) – A high-ranking delegation from the State Audit ofVietnam (SAV), led by Deputy Auditor General Nguyen Quang Thanh, had a workingsession with the Audit Board of Indonesia (BPK) in Jakarta on November 25.
At a working session with BPK Chairman Agung Firman Sampurna, Thanh affirmed theimprovement in audit quality has been a top priority of the SAV so as tosuccessfully implement the State Audit Development Strategy to 2020 and fulfilits mission as the Chair of the Asian Organisation of Supreme AuditInstitutions (ASOSAI) during 2018-2021.
Therefore, the SAV is promoting study and learn experience from internationalorganisations to realise its targets.
Describing the BPK as an important partner of the SAV, Thanh stressed thatvarious exchanges and visits were conducted between the two sides to shareexperience in the fields of mutual interest, helping enhance cooperation ineducation and training to better auditors’ capacity.
Meanwhile, Agung Firman Sampurna said that since the Memorandum ofUnderstanding between the two audit bodies were inked at the ASEAN SupremeAudit Institutions (ASEANSAI) Summit in Laos in 2017, a wide range ofcooperative activities have been organised, including technical assistance andconferences and training courses on operational audit, environmental audit andconstruction audit.
Last year, the BPK helped the Vietnamese audit organisation to carry outenvironmental audit in waste management in Bac Ninh province’s industrialparks, and build environmental audit guidelines, he said, adding both sidesworked closely within the framework of the ASEANSAI, the ASOSAI, and theInternational Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) to consolidatepublic finance management.
During their stay from November 24-28, the Vietnamese delegation is scheduledto exchange experience with the BPK’s agencies in outlining audit plans, risk-basedauditing approach, and applying IT in audit, among others./.
Vietnam and Indonesia will enhance collaboration in operational audits, environmental audits and audit quality management as per a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on public sector auditing cooperation inked between the two national audit agencies on November 5.
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Deputy Auditor General Nguyen Quang Thanh (centre)at the working session with the Audit Board of Indonesia.(Photo: VNA) 
