Challenging The DKI Provincial Government To Cut ASN Allowances For The 2020 Regional Budget

JAKARTA - The DKI DPRD Budget Agency together with the DKI Provincial Government are still thinking about ways to increase the revenue realization that has not reached the target as of today.

Chairman of Commission A DPRD DKI Mujiyono suggested increasing revenue by reducing the personnel expenditure budget.

The direct expenditure budget that is highlighted is the Regional Performance Allowance (TKD) for DKI ASN employees. This allowance comes out every month. Mujiyanto gave an example, a village head could get TKD of up to IDR 26 million.

"Why don't we just take (allocation) from (expenditure) TKD?" said Mujiyono at the DKI DPRD Budget Board Meeting, Jalan Kebon Sirih, Central Jakarta, Tuesday, November 26.

"If I look at the APBD there is an allowance dividend of approximately Rp. 20 trillion. I am sure that the absorption (budgetary income) never reaches 100 percent?" he added.

According to him, the efficiency of the TKD budget for DKI Pemprov employees has the potential to increase the nominal value of submitting the draft budget to reach Rp. 88 trillion.

"So my suggestion as chairman of commission A is taken from TKD only, maybe we can find it at Rp. 89 trillion, Rp. 87 trillion or it can be reduced to Rp. 88 trillion," he said.

In addition, Mujiyono also proposed cutting grant funds in the 2020 budget. According to him, cutting the grant funds could save up to IDR 2.7 trillion needed by DKI in 2020.

"Rp. 88 trillion has a huge potential to be corrected. There are grants, why don't we postpone it first to cover it, then we will decide on the figure, "he said.

For your information, the budget proposals that have been discussed in the KUA-PPAS have turned out to be a deficit of up to IDR 10 trillion. The proposed DKI budget has jumped to Rp97 trillion. In fact, based on the calculation of the financial revenue plan in 2020, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government will only receive an income of IDR 87 trillion.

The declining income estimation factor is due to the suboptimal realization of tax revenue.

The revenue target of the 13 taxes that have been set in the 2019 Revised APBD (APBD-P) is IDR 44.54 trillion. As of today, the budget has only reached IDR 35.315 trillion because none of the tax units have reached the target. There is still a difference of Rp9,224 trillion that must be pursued.