Since 2015, The Government Has Disbursed IDR 609.68 Trillion For Village Development

Illustration (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

GUNUNGKIDUL - The government disbursed funds amounting to Rp609.68 trillion through the State Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBN) for village economic development from 2015 to 2024.

Especially in 2024, the allocated budget is IDR 71 trillion for economic development in 75,259 villages in 434 cities/districts, so that each village is estimated to receive funds of IDR 943.34 million.

"The development of the Village Fund is no less than IDR 609 trillion from 2015 to 2024," said Director of Village Funds, Incentives, Special Autonomy and Privileges of the Directorate General of Financial Balance (DJPK) of the Ministry of Finance Jaka Sucipta quoted from ANTARA, Thursday, May 2.

Village Funds have been used to build supporting facilities for economic activities and the quality of life of the village community as well as stunting prevention and prevention programs.

A number of the results of the Village Fund's achievements in the construction of supporting facilities include 33,657 kilometers of village roads, 129,979 meters of bridges, 515 village markets, 31,142 irrigation units, 9,287 land retaining units, 2,172 sports facilities, 86,750 clean water units, 2,248 polyndes, 3,191,307 meters of drainage, 2,547 PAUD activities, 2,587 posyandu units and 8,031 units of wells.

Meanwhile, the results for stunting prevention and treatment programs include 9,352 units of posyandu, 10.12 million units of clean water, MCK public facilities (bathing, washing, toilet) 77,168 units, 79,928 units of polyndes, 10.495 units of PAUD, 29.557,922 meters of drainage, and 31.01 million units of drilling wells.

stunting prevention and reduction activities are carried out with promotive and preventive actions, as well as other activities in accordance with village authority and decided in village deliberation.

As for this year, the Government plans to use the Village Fund to support the handling of extreme poverty through 25 percent direct cash assistance (BLT) and support food and animal security programs at least 20 percent.