Disrupted Village Funds, Government Will Stop Distribution

Director of Village Funds, Incentives, Special Autonomy, and Specialties of the Ministry of Finance Jaka Sucipta. (Photo: Aris Nurjani/VOI)

YOGYAKARTA Director of Village Funds, Incentives, Special Autonomy, and Privileges, Directorate General of Fiscal Balance of the Ministry of Finance (DJPK Kemenkeu) Jaka Sucipta emphasized that he would temporarily close the distribution of village funds if there was misuse of village funds or corruption by village heads or village officials.

"The Ministry of Finance will stop the distribution of village funds to villages or village officials affected by corruption cases," he explained at the Press Tour event of the Ministry of Finance, Wednesday, May 1.

In addition, Jaka said that he would not include the village in the village incentive competition until village officials caught in corruption cases were replaced.

"Villages that have corruption, cannot participate in competitions to get village incentives, so one of the criteria for village incentives is that there is no corruption", he explained.

According to Jaka, the use of village funds is quite vulnerable to misuse, because currently village officials are given the authority to manage village funds or decentralization systems.

"The use of village funds tends to increase, this is a negative excess of village funds that become homework together on how negative excesses can be reduced," he said.

Jaka explained that the misuse of village funds is a form of negative excesses because villages affected by corruption cases will be blacklisted or blacklisted.

"This access is a concern for all of us. Some of the village funds are used for karaoke, they are used for various things. They may actually use the rest properly, but there are also those who get fees from partners, for example," he said.

Jaka said that he had taken several steps to encourage the management of village funds to be better, namely, such as DGT in collaboration with campuses, to provide village fund management training and utilization of village potential through the Village Head program to enter Campus.

For information, from 2015 to 2024, the government has disbursed village funds amounting to Rp609.68 trillion.

Meanwhile, in 2024, the allocation of village funds will reach IDR 71 trillion, which is given to 75,259 villages in 434 regencies/cities.

So that each village gets village funds of around Rp. 943.34 million.