JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto revealed the reason why he delivered the Macro Economic Framework and Fiscal Policy Elements (KEM-PPKF) of the 2027 State Budget directly in the 19th Plenary Meeting of the DPR in the 2025-2026 Session Year.
Prabowo said he conveyed this directly because Indonesia is currently facing global geopolitical and geoeconomic challenges that are full of conflicts, tensions, and uncertainties.
"We are now as a nation facing geopolitical and geoeconomic challenges full of conflicts, tensions, and uncertainties. Wars are happening in many places, even in Europe, in the Middle East, in regions that although far from us, but it turns out to have a very big impact and influence on our lives," said Prabowo, Wednesday, May 20.
"Therefore, because of the conditions we are facing like this, I think that the President of the Republic of Indonesia must be present to directly convey the main points of the economy and state management," he said.
Prabowo said he had been sworn in front of the people and state institutions to implement the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, including protecting all Indonesian people, advancing the welfare and intelligence of the nation, and maintaining Indonesia's role in world peace and order.
According to the President, the State Budget (APBN) is not merely a financial document of the state, but an instrument of the nation's struggle to protect the people, strengthen the national economic system, ensure the welfare of citizens, and become a guide for the nation's journey into the future.
The Head of State said the State Budget was compiled as a form of mutual commitment to realize the nation's ideals as mandated in the 1945 Constitution, namely to build an independent, sovereign, just, prosperous, and self-standing Indonesia.
"We will arrange the state budget as a form of mutual commitment to realize the noble ideals that have been mandated in our Basic Law, the 1945 Constitution. A Basic Law that was born from the arena of the old struggle, the struggle to achieve independence that has been running for hundreds of years, which has asked for thousands of victims, tens of thousands of predecessors, namely the ideals of realizing an independent, sovereign, just, prosperous Indonesia, which stands on our own feet," he said.
Prabowo also conveyed his appreciation to the leadership and members of the MPR, DPR, and DPD RI for holding a plenary meeting which coincided with the commemoration of National Awakening Day.
President Prabowo became the first President of the Republic of Indonesia to deliver the preliminary RAPBN, which includes the macro economic framework and the main fiscal policy, in front of members of the Indonesian House of Representatives.
The meeting was attended by 451 members of the DPR so that the quorum was set by the Speaker of the DPR Puan Maharani.
In the meeting, President Prabowo was accompanied by Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka, then the Red and White Cabinet officials, including Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Pratikno, Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment Muhaimin Iskandar, and Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Djamari Chaniago.
Then, there is also the Minister of Finance Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sugiono, Minister of State Secretary Prasetyo Hadi, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Bahlil Lahadalia, Minister of Agriculture Andi Amran Sulaiman.
In addition, it was also attended by the Governor of Bank Indonesia Perry Warjiyo, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Financial Services Authority Friderica Widyasari Dewi, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Deposit Insurance Corporation Anggito Abimanyu.
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