Banten - The Banten Provincial Government together with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) highlighted the inequality between the tax revenue of the Mineral Non-Metallic and Rock (MBLB) mining sector and the amount of regional budget that must be spent to repair infrastructure damage due to mining activities.
Banten Provincial Secretary Deden Apriandhi said that the MBLB tax revenue received by the provincial government throughout 2025 only reached Rp. 16 billion, an amount that is considered much smaller than the budget needs for road repairs and other infrastructure used by mining transport in a number of regions.
He emphasized that the loss of infrastructure due to mining activities has not been calculated in detail, but the value is certainly greater than the MBLB tax revenue received by the provincial government.
"It must be recalculated yes, but it is definitely greater than Rp16 billion," he said, quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, February 7.
In the discussion with the KPK, Deden reminded the regional government that mining activities should not burden the regional finances. One of the main highlights is the weak supervision in the field, including for companies that have obtained permits.
"We are given an understanding that if there is mining in the area, the regional budget will be larger to repair infrastructure damaged by mining, while the revenue from the mining sector itself is not significant," he said.
He revealed that there were still discrepancies between permits and mining practices in the field, both in terms of the area and the type of commodities mined.
"For example, they are only allowed to be given an area of five hectares, for example, but it turns out that the activity is six hectares, so seven hectares or they are allowed to andesite stone, it turns out to be another," said Deden.
According to him, this condition has the potential to cause tax revenue leakage as well as increase the environmental impact and damage to infrastructure that the local government will eventually bear.
To improve governance, the Banten Provincial Government is currently drafting adjustments to the MBLB tax rate by collecting comparative data from a number of other provinces.
However, Deden emphasized that tariff adjustments could not be carried out unilaterally because the provincial government only received 25 percent of the total MBLB tax revenue, while 75 percent was the authority of the district and city governments.
Meanwhile, the Director of Regional Coordination and Supervision II of the KPK, Brigadier General Bahtiar Ujang Purnama, assessed that the potential revenue from the non-metallic mineral sector in Banten needed to be managed more accountable so that there would be no leakage.
"We ask for this meeting to educate together and then prevent these mining business actors from complying with existing rules so that they do not have a negative impact," said Bahtiar.
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