JAKARTA - Minister of Finance (Menkeu) Sri Mulyani emphasized that the government is shifting several focus of budget allocations in the 2023 State Budget. One of them is the allocation of funds next year for preparation for the 2024 general election.
According to the Minister of Finance, as one of the consequences of this, the national economic recovery fund (PEN) which has been revolving since 2020 will be abolished in line with the increasingly controlled pandemic in the country.
As a replacement, these funds will go to the ministry/institution (K/L) spending cluster in the coming year.
In the explanation of the Minister of Finance, the amount of K/L spending next year will increase to Rp. 993.2 trillion without PEN from the previous Rp. 764.2 trillion in 2021.
“This goes up very high outside the PEN program. This budget includes for elections, priority infrastructure work, and also for the development of the Nusantara IKN which must be carried out in a measurable manner," he said during a press conference on Tuesday, August 16.
According to VOI records, the government is known to have allocated a budget for organizing the 2024 elections in the amount of Rp. 19.5 trillion in the 2023 indicative ceiling.
Meanwhile, the projected use of the budget for the democratic party in 2024 is believed to reach Rp110.4 trillion.
That number jumped significantly from the 2019 election, with details of Rp. 25.59 trillion at the General Elections Commission (KPU). Meanwhile, the supervision budget is set at Rp4.85 trillion and the security budget is allocated at Rp3.29 trillion.
The government has repaid the 2019 election funds in installments long ago, to be precise in 2017 it was around Rp465.71 billion. Then in 2018 it was Rp. 9.33 trillion and in 2019 it was Rp. 15.79 trillion.
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