2024 Election Swallows Rp110.4 Trillion Budget, President Jokowi Affirms Government's Commitment To Support

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) emphasized that the government supports the implementation of the 2024 General Election, including by providing budgetary support.

"We must prepare for the implementation of the general election, the stages of which will begin in June 2022. I ask all ministries, institutions, provincial governments, district governments and city governments to support the duties of the KPU and Bawaslu, including budget support," said President Jokowi at the State Palace, Jakarta, Thursday, Thursday. , April 28.

President Jokowi conveyed this at the Opening of the 2022 National Development Planning Deliberation which was attended by Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, Minister of National Development Planning/Head of Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Suharso Manoarfa, Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian, Minister of State Secretary Pratikno, and other officials. other related.

Previously, President Jokowi said that the 2024 election budget needs to reach Rp. 110.4 trillion, with details of the General Election Commission (KPU) budget of Rp. 76.6 trillion and the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) of Rp. 33.8 trillion.

"Assistance, both from the APBN and APBD, so that the 2024 Election is carried out properly, successfully and smoothly," added Jokowi.

President Jokowi acknowledged that in 2022 and 2023 Indonesia will face a difficult situation as well as a volatile and uncertain global economic and political situation.

"The pandemic is not yet completely over, several countries are still struggling to suppress the spread of COVID-19, even still doing a 'lockdown', then there is a 'supply chain' disruption which impacts everywhere," said the President.

Moreover, according to President Jokowi, the world was hit by a war between Russia and Ukraine which gave rise to an energy crisis and a food crisis. "Finally, global inflation will rise sharply and global economic growth will experience a slowdown," added the President.

President Jokowi asked ministers, heads of institutions, and regional heads to be really vigilant, calculate, and calculate in detail the anticipatory steps.

"So that the anticipation steps are correct, we must be really prepared if this crisis continues until next year. Be careful everyone, we must have a 'sense of crisis', not as usual, not 'business as usual', 'sense of crisis' ' must exist in all of us, so we must have good planning," explained the President.

In addition, President Jokowi reminded that starting in 2023, the government will restart the provision for a deficit below 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

"Therefore, the planning must be really detailed, it must be really precise, sharpen spending numbers so that the quality is getting better, optimize tax revenue," the President added.

Not to be missed, he said, strategic agendas for improving human resources (HR) must continue.

"Accelerating extreme poverty, reducing stunting, improving the quality of human resources through transformation in the health sector, increasing access to education, and 'upskilling', 'reskilling' the workforce to be more productive and competitive," said the President.