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INDONESIA’S Finance Minister, Sri Mulyani Indrawati said state spending had reached IDR1,806.8 trillion by the end of September 2021 or 65.7% of the APBN target of IDR2,750 trillion, but contracted 1.9% from the same period in 2020 of IDR1,841.3 trillion.
“Spending decreased slightly by 1.9%, but if we look at the spending of Ministries/Institutions (K/L) it actually grew 16.1%,” she said in an online press conference on the State Budget KiTA in Jakarta, Monday (10/25).
The realization of state spending includes ministry/institutional (K/L) expenditures of IDR734 trillion, which is 71.1% of the IDR1,032 trillion ceiling and non-K/L expenditures of IDR531.3 trillion or 57.6% of the IDR922.6 trillion ceiling.
The K/L expenditure grew 16.1% from the same period last year of IDR632.2 trillion due to capital expenditure of IDR118.7 trillion or an increase of 62.3%, namely basic infrastructure projects or connectivity and equipment.
“Last year, capital expenditures stopped because COVID-19 had only hit Indonesia, resulting in a weakening and paralysis of capital expenditures,” Sri Mulyani stated.
The realization of this capital expenditure includes machine tools IDR45 trillion, buildings IDR15.1 trillion, as well as roads, irrigation and networks of IDR52.6 trillion. In detail, the projects that were successfully built through capital expenditures covered 62.28% of the target of 10 new dams and 43 additional dams valued at IDR11.94 trillion.
A total of 67.8% of the 600-kilometer construction target of irrigation networks and 72.19% of the 3,900-kilometer rehabilitation target with a total expenditure of IDR4.4 trillion.
A total of 55.46% of the 213.63-kilometer road construction target and 78.29% of the 57,793.54-kilometer target of IDR17.9 trillion and 68.23% of the 216.84-kilometer spoor railway target target of IDR1, 9 trillion.
As many as 33% of the target of 21 hospitals and medical equipment with a total expenditure of IDR0.31 trillion and 57.8% of the construction target of 18,945.24-meter bridges and preservation of 73.08% of the 508,614.39-meter target of IDR3.57 trillion.
A total of 89.8% of the target of modernization of special material tools (almatsus) and facilities and infrastructure (sarpras) of the Indonesian National Police 29,372 units valued at IDR16.16 trillion and 5.8% of the target of modernizing the Main Equipment of the Indonesian Armed Forces System (alutsista), non-defense equipment, and defense infrastructure of 8,412 units. with a total expenditure of Rp. 12.4 trillion.
Then it was also supported by goods spending which grew by 42.4% and 87.9% of the State budget (APBN) target such as vaccinations, claims for care and productive assistance as well as the distribution of various social assistance programs.
This expenditure includes operational and non-operational goods of IDR123.5 trillion, maintenance of IDR24 trillion, official travel of IDR14.9 trillion, goods of Public Service Agency (BLU) of IDR58.4 trillion and those directed to the community as well as Productive Assistance for Micro Enterprises (BPUM), vaccines, quota subsidies and regional government wage subsidies of IDR76.5 trillion.
Then the benefits of spending on other goods in the form of the public getting the first vaccine injection of 91.1 million and the second vaccine 51.1 million by procuring 107.3 million doses of vaccine worth Rp. 21.1 trillion.
Furthermore, as many as 12.7 million micro-enterprises received assistance of IDR15.2 trillion, 511.7 thousand of COVID-19 patients received treatment costs of IDR33.6 trillion, 7.7 million MoRA school students received BOS of IDR8.3 trillion and the volume of subsidy distribution. the difference in the price of biodiesel is 6.94 million kiloliters worth IDR35.7 trillion.
Meanwhile, non-K/L spending contracted 8.3% (yoy) compared to the same period last year of IDR579.5 trillion, the benefits of which were used for pension payments, including retirement allowances (THR), energy and fertilizer subsidies and the Pre-Employment Card program.
The realization of expenditure also came from Transfers to Regions and Village Funds (TKDD) of IDR541.5 trillion, which was 68.1% of the Rp795.5 trillion ceiling but contracted 14% (yoy) from IDR557.35 trillion in the same period last year.
TKDD also consists of realized Village Funds of IDR50.2 trillion or a contraction of 13% (yoy) and represents 69.7% of the target of the State Budget (APBN) of IDR72 trillion. [antaranews/photo special]
