Deputy Minister Of Finance Suahasil Encourages His Staff To Optimize Fiscal To Build Regional Economy

Deputy Minister of Finance Suahasil Nazara (Photo: Doc. Antara)

The Deputy Minister of Finance (Wamenkeu) encourages the ranks of the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) in the regions to be able to initiate the acceleration of local economic growth through optimizing fiscal instruments, especially in terms of the Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD).

He conveyed this at the Joint Coordination Meeting (Rakorgab) of the Ministry of Finance in One Bengkulu and Southern Sumatra Region (Sumbagsel) which was held in the Hall of the Bengkulu State Treasury Service Office (KPPN) today.

"Look at what is happening in the Bengkulu economy, district by district. Look what happened to the APBD, what we need to strengthen, what we need to encourage," he said in a written statement on Friday, September 15.

According to Suahasil, the Ministry of Finance must be concretely sensitive to economic needs and within the framework of Indonesia's economic management and not only limited to carrying out its duties and functions according to each unit.

He hopes that Nagara Dana Rakca (as employees of the Ministry of Finance) employees can see the economic movements in the regions, learn and understand more about the APBD, then identify what sectors need strengthening.

"We have an obligation, namely looking at the Indonesian economy. Not only collecting taxes, customs and excise without looking at the economy, we cannot. We only say that we can distribute the state budget to the regions but do not look at local economic conditions, it is not allowed. It must be concrete. Our country's extraordinary wealth remains managed, minimized, and must also connect to our economy as to what kind so that the management of our country's wealth becomes concrete," he said.

Therefore, continued Suahasil, it is necessary to build synergies between units at the Ministry of Finance and local governments in the implementation of the APBN and APBD to support regional progress. The hope is that the APBN and APBD can actually create a multiplier effect for the community and mobilize sectors to advance the Bengkulu economy.

This APBD really touches the community, can create the highest multiplier effect. The desired sector is the driving force of this local economy accommodated or not by the APBN and APBD," he asserted.

Deputy Sri Mulyani appreciated the implementation of the ALCO Regional which had been implemented in Bengkulu. In the future, the Deputy Minister of Finance advised all levels of the Ministry of Finance to continue to communicate and discuss with local governments, the media, and the community.

"We are not just doing our own job, but we are working on tasks for the Indonesian economy through increasing Bengkulu's economic management," he added.

Suahasil hopes that the ranks of the Ministry of Finance One in Bengkulu can be more fluent in reading the economic movements of the community and continue to look for new ideas and ways to help the people of Bengkulu to be more advanced.

"Our job is to serve. And we think of a better, stronger, more credible way to do services that lead to perfection. And of course we already know exactly the service that leads to perfection, we do it with integrity, with more professionalness, and more synergy," he concluded.