Bobby Nasution Denies The Issue Of Cutting The North Sumatra Disaster Budget

North Sumatra Governor Bobby Nasution (ANTARA)

The Governor of North Sumatra (North Sumatra) Muhammad Bobby Afif Nasution explained that the disaster management budget condition is said to have experienced a large enough cuts in 2025.

Rumors circulated that the North Sumatra provincial disaster budget in 2025 had been cut from Rp. 843 billion to Rp. 98 billion. Bobby also responded to the news.

"Who said it (there was a cropping)?" he said in his statement, Wednesday, December 10.

Bobby also said that the disaster budget that was ratified with the DRPD was Rp. 123 billion from the 2025 Draft Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (RAPBD).

"Please look at the 2025 R-APBD, if you say that at the beginning the figure was Rp. 800 billion (more), the opening from the RAPBD which was ratified together with the DRPD was Rp. 123 billion," he said.

He also explained that the budget efficiency policy from the Central Government which was implemented in 2025 also had an effect on the budget.

"In accordance with Presidential Instruction No. 1 of 2025, we have efficiency, we are ordered to have efficiency, we are efficient. Now the question is where the efficiency of the money is placed, it's impossible for us to include it," said Bobby.

Then Bobby said, the budget that was approved was transferred to unexpected expenditure (BTT) which was also used for the payment of bonuses for the National Sports Week (PON) and the National Paralympic Week (Peparnas) in 2024.

"The money was set at BTT, but we will see first, the BTT budgeted from the start has been used for PON, athlete payments which were not all all allocated, both PON athletes and Peparnas bonuses," he said.

Then there is also BTT which is used to improve infrastructure in West Nias, which was previously also not allocated in the APBD.

"Then for West Nias, the bridge was cut off using BTT as well, because it was not previously budgeted, so if you want to see from the RAPBD, please open it, I think what the figure is," he said.