Sri Mulyani Starts Installment Budget 2024 Election, Next Year Prepared IDR 19.5 Trillion

JAKARTA - The government, through the Ministry of Finance, is said to have allocated a budget for the 2024 election for IDR 19.5 trillion in the indicative ceiling next year.

Deputy Minister of Finance, Suahasil Nazara, said if the budget was placed in ministry/institutional spending for the 2023 period.

"One of the spending priorities in preparation for the election, amounting to IDR 19.5 trillion", said Suahasil through a virtual channel on Thursday, April 28.

According to Sri Mulyani's subordinates, the total indicative ceiling for 2023 is IDR 977.1 trillion, which is the entire ministry/institution spending plan for next year.

"By the President's directive that the spending budget must be sharpened, including the election preparation budget", he said.

For information, President Jokowi himself had said that the estimated 2024 regional election and election funds would reach IDR 110.4 trillion.

In the editorial notes, this number jumped quite significantly from the previous 2019 election which amounted to IDR 25.59 trillion at the General Elections Commission (KPU). Meanwhile, the supervision budget is set at IDR 4.85 trillion and the security budget is allocated at IDR 3.29 trillion.

The government prepared this budget long ago, to be precise in 2017 it was around IDR465.71 billion. Then in 2018, it was IDR 9.33 trillion and in 2019 it was IDR 15.79 trillion.