Government Disburses Capai Village Funds Of IDR 609.68 Trillion Since 2015

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YOGYAKARTA - The government has issued village funds of IDR 609.68 trillion during the 2015 to 2024 period for all regencies/cities in Indonesia.

"Village funds are not less than Rp609 trillion flowing into the village since 2015-2024," said Director of Village Funds, Incentives, Special Autonomy, and Specialties of the Ministry of Finance, Jaka Sucipta in the Press Tour of the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu), Wednesday, May 1.

Jaka said that in 2015 the government had issued village funds of IDR 280.3 million per village.

So that the government has disbursed village funds of IDR 20.7 trillion with a total absorption of 82.82 percent.

According to Jaka, in 2023 the distribution of village funds throughout Indonesia will experience a fairly high increase where the Government spends Rp70 trillion in village funds for 74,954 villages.

As a result, each village gets Rp933.9 million in village funds with an absorption of 99.8 percent.

Meanwhile, in 2024, the Ministry of Finance plans to spend IDR 71 trillion in village funds for 75,259 villages throughout Indonesia.

As for the plan, each village will get IDR 943.34 million.

According to Jaka, village funds are the main support for the Village Original Income (PA).

In addition, village funds this year are used to support the handling of extreme poverty through Direct Cash Assistance (BLT) and stunting handling.

"25 percent of village funds can be used for BLT, 20 percent of food security, the government can arrange it to support national priority programs," he said.

Jaka said that the government can also regulate the function of village funds for village government operations and can determine the highest amount of village funds for operations by 3 percent.

"We also have a BUMDes assistance program for the village economy, hopefully, all villages will not only depend on village funds," he said.