The Ministry Of Finance Has Calculated That The Number Of Ministries In The Prabowo Era Will Be 44

SERANG - The Government of Elected President Prabowo Subianto is rumored to be reshuffling several Ministries and Institutions (K/L).

To note, the number of ministries in the era of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) administration has 34 ministries.

Meanwhile, Prabowo Subianto's elected Presidential cabinet reportedly reached 44 ministries.

Based on Article 15 of Law Number 39 of 2008 concerning the Ministry of State, where the number of ministries is limited to only 34.

As for now, after the DPR ratifies the Draft Law (RUU) on Amendments to Law Number 39 of 2008 concerning the Ministry of State into Law (UU).

So that President-elect Prabowo Subianto can later increase the number of ministries without limits.

This is based on Article 15 of the State Ministry Bill. The Ministry can be formed based on the needs of the president.

"The total number of Ministries formed as referred to in Article 12, Article 13, and Article 14 is determined in accordance with the needs of government administration by the President," he wrote.

Head of the BKF State Budget Policy Center, Ministry of Finance, Wahyu Utomo, said that the plan to add K/L had been observed so that it had been anticipated through the 2025 State Budget at Non-K/L shopping posts.

"The dynamics of re-organization in institutions may later increase there will be several K/L, then separated, of course we will pay attention to it. But we have calculated that it is possible to accommodate it in non-K/L spending earlier," Wahyu said in the media gathering of the Ministry of Finance 2024, Wednesday, September 25.

Therefore, Wahyu said, the government had anticipated that the addition of this K/L would not burden the 2025 State Budget so that the deficit would be maintained at 2.53 percent.

"So there are two clusters, we support an effective transition but keep the state budget healthy and credible," he said.

Previously on a different occasion, Deputy Minister of Finance II Thomas Djiwandono said that his party had prepared and arranged a budget for the existence of a new K/L which had been reserved in the 2025 State Budget in the State General Treasurer Budget (BA BUN) post.

"The director general of the budget and I have met with the Minister of PAN-RB to accommodate these budgets. The points are in the president's discretion, the figures cannot be notified because the K/L does not yet know how much. It is already at the BA BUN post," he said.