Peranan BPA Dalam Pengawasan Peredaran Uang Palsu(Ccounterfeit Money)Di Timor-Leste

• Main Authors: , ANTONIO JM. DO ESPIRITO SANTO, , Dr. Muhammad Edhie Purnawan, MA.
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2014
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/134429/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=76918
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

One of the most important function of BPA (Banking and Payments Authority of Timor Leste is monitoring, including monitoring towards circulation of counterfeit money in the community. A survey counduted in 2008 � 2010 in Timor Leste on the performance of BPA revealed that most of the community not satisfeid with the quality of monitoring done by BPA. These were caused by low facilities and low qualities of human resources. Based on the above reasons, the BPA focuses on monitoring and supervision towards circulation of the conterfeit money as one of their important program by doing advocacy and information dissemination regarding characteristic of the authenticity of American dollar to the community in the whole territory of Timor Leste. The research was done because there is an increasing amount of counterfeit money circulated in Timor-Leste,in addition to find outbarriers faces byBPAas aBankingAuthorityinmonitoring and preventingthe circulation ofcounterfeit money. The data usedinthis study isthe primary dataandsecondarydata. Primary dataobtained fromquestionnairesand interviewswere observed, the secondary data obtainedfromthe work unitcounterfeit(Counterfeit Unit, CurrencyOperationsDivision, Department ofPayment, Banking andPaymentsAuthority ofTimor-Leste BPA) during the period of 2008 to 2010. Toolsof analysis used are descriptivecomparison(comparative). The results showed that the role of monitoring and prevention of counterfeit money during the period of the study are grouped into three aspects. (1) Aspects ofthe role ofmonitoring andpreventionof counterfeit money, (2) Aspects ofmonitoring capabilitiesandthe ability ofprevention ofcounterfeit money