Sri Mulyani's Subordinates Confirm That The 2024 Election Budget Will Be Executed In The Second Semester Of This Year, The Amount Is Rp. 86 Trillion?

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JAKARTA - The government through the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) is said to have started planning the budgeting of state expenditures related to the upcoming 2024 general election.

"We have started to think about the election budget, the discussion of which will begin in the second semester of 2022," said Director General of Budget of the Ministry of Finance Isa Rachmatarwata when accompanying Finance Minister Sri Mulyani when holding a press conference on the realization of the 2021 State Budget in Jakarta, Monday, January 3.

According to Isa, this effort is intended to share the workload so as not to be too hasty in providing the necessary resources in the democratic party. However, he has not been able to confirm how much the allocation of funds will be set aside starting this year.

"Because we are only in the early stages, we cannot (give further information). Usually, the biggest burdens will be in 2023 and 2024," he said.

From the information gathered by the editors, the General Election Commission (KPU) has submitted a proposal related to the 2024 election budget in the amount of Rp. 86 trillion.

This figure jumped much higher when compared to the 2014 and 2019 election budgets based on data released by the Ministry of Finance of Rp. 15.6 trillion and Rp. 25.59 trillion, respectively.

For information, in the 2022 State Budget Law, it is known that the total state expenditure for this year has reached IDR 2,714, 2 trillion with an income sector of IDR 1,846.1 trillion.