Jokowi Asks Staff To Anticipate So That State Revenue Is Not Disturbed

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) made a speech at the plenary cabinet meeting, at the State Palace, Jakarta, Monday (3/7/2023). The plenary cabinet meeting discussed the first semester of the State Budget report in 2023. BETWEEN PHOTO/Akbar Nugroho Gumay/nz/pri

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) asked his staff to anticipate and ensure that state revenues in the second semester of 2023 are not disrupted.

"Anticipation and projection so that state revenues are not disrupted," said President Jokowi as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, July 3.

Jokowi said that based on the report of the Minister of Finance, state revenue in the first semester was still good, but tax revenues were not as high as last year.

In addition, customs revenues and non-tax state revenues (PNPB) were also affected by commodity prices that were not as high as last year.

"Therefore, we (the government) must understand the risks and we must manage everything as well as possible," he said.

In the cabinet meeting, President Jokowi also said that current economic growth should be grateful, because it is able to survive relatively high above 5 percent.

In addition, the World Bank as of July 2023 again included Indonesia in the groupupper middle income countries, after having dropped to the middle-income country group leader in 2020 due to the pandemic.

Nevertheless, Jokowi reminded that the situation faced in the second half of 2023 was not easy and had to be aware of several things, including a global environment that was still unstable, as well as ongoing geopolitical tensions that had an impact on economic growth and weakened trading activities and resulted in a decrease in exports.

"Then various international institutions predict the slowdown in the global economy. We must also really see this. The IMF gives 2.8 percent, the WorldBank gives 2.1 percent and OECD 2.6 percent, and also the increase in global interest rates. be careful, global inflation is still relatively high," he said.

In addition, according to him, it should also be observed that global trade fragmentation hinders multilateral cooperation, to various early indicators for consumption and production that show both positive and weakening situations.