Minister Of Energy And Mineral Resources Proposes A Budget For 2025 Of IDR 9.38 Trillion

JAKARTA - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Arifin Tasrif proposed a Work Plan & Ministry/Institutional Budget (RKA-K/L) for the Fiscal Year (TA) 2025 of IDR 9.38 trillion.

This amount is increased compared to the nominal Indicative Ceiling (SBPI) of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of National Development Planning/Head of Bappenas, which stipulates an Indicative Ceiling of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources for 2025 of IDR 3.91 trillion.

"This indicative ceiling consists of Rupiah Murni (RM) funds of Rp3.13 trillion, Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP) of the Revenue Unit of Rp282.01 billion, and the Public Service Agency (BLU) of Rp493.59 billion," Arifin explained at a working meeting with Commission VII of the House of Representatives (DPR) quoted Thursday, June 6.

Arifin further said that the 2025 SBPI has not covered the Minerba Royalty PNBP and Mining Result Sales (PHT). The Minerba Royalty PNBP of 1,196.00 billion will be distributed to six units of echelon I KESDM, while PNBP PHT of 4,279.50 billion will be used for the construction of Cisem and Dusem Pipes.

"The 2025 KESDM Work Plan takes into account mandatory budget fulfillment, such as office salaries and operations, as well as development agenda activities. The distribution of ceilings per organizational unit must be carried out efficiently and efficiently," added Arifin.

The budget will be distributed to each unit within the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources as follows, the Secretariat General is 565.73 billion, the Inspectorate General is 140.60 billion, the Directorate General of Oil and Gas is 4,828.39 billion, the Directorate General of Electricity is 491.53 billion, the Directorate General of Mineral and Coal is 742.13 billion, the Directorate General of EBTKE is 555.98 billion, the National Energy Council is 63.78 billion, the BPSDM ESDM is 654.04 billion, the Geological Agency is 994.61 billion, the BPH Migas is 254.29 billion, and the BPMA is 94.12 billion.

"A magnitude of 55.3 percent or Rp5.19 trillion from the 2025 Indicative Ceiling is allocated to infrastructure and natural resource surveys. These projects include the construction of Phase II Cisem Pipelines, BPBL, Supporting PLTS, PLTS, PLTMH, PLTM, geological disaster mitigation, and volcanic observation posts," explained Arifin.

However, Arifin revealed that the 2025 Indicative Ceiling has not accommodated several priority activities, including the construction of a natural gas network for households as many as 100,000 house connections (SR), construction for farmers as many as 10,000 packages, and conkit for fishermen as many as 15,000 packages.