RI TO EXPAND COOPERATION IN AUDITING

Beijing, May 26 (ANTARA) - Indonesia will expand cooperation with other countries as part of efforts to increase its capacity and capability in the field of auditing.

"We have and will conduct audit cooperation with several countries in various areas," the head of the country's state audit board (BPK), Anwar Nasution, said here on Monday.

He made the remark after signing a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese state audit board, the NAC, for cooperation in the field of auditing.

Anwar said several countries that have cooperated with Indonesia were the US, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Thailand, Russia, Czech and Poland, Tunis, Algeria and Morroco.

"The form of cooperation varies including on arms purchase auditing," he said.

In the future, he said, BPK would continue to expand cooperation with other countries as part of efforts to promote bilateral relations with the countries concerned.

He said BPK signed a cooperation agreement with the Cour des Comptes of Republic of Tunisia on April 24, on areas such as experience exchange, corruption eradication, human resource management, public awreness program, quality assurance, jurisdictional control and others.

On April 27 meanwhile BPK signed similar cooperation with the Cour des Comptes of Algeria on areas such as research, international relations, audit law and others.

On April 30 the BPK also signed a cooperation agreement with Morroco on capacity building, quality assurance system, information exchange and others.