The State Budget Deficit Asks To Be Lowered In 2025, Sri Mulyani Says All Aspirations Have Been Absorbed

Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani. (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati revealed that preparations for the formulation of the RAPBN Fiscal Policy Principles Macro Economic Framework (KEM-PPKF) for the 2025 Fiscal Year were carried out since March 2024 by the government internally.

"KEM PPKF is not us who made it, we didn't make it ourselves. In the sense that the internal government process was conveyed in March to the President," Sri Mulyani said at the Commission XI Working Meeting of the DPR RI, Thursday, June 6.

In addition, Sri Mulyani explained that the 2025 PPKF KEM had received aspirations from the President and the DPR. And during preparations for the election stage after the new president was elected, his party has also met with the Prabowo-Gibran Synchronization Task Force Team.

"We asked what this incoming government (aspirations) would be like. So this is all accommodating by staying in the prudential signs," he said.

Sri Mulyani explained that the APBN must remain credible and stable in line with the political transition, the aspirations of the new government and the priorities that must be maintained.

"If it could be lower (deficit), of course we would try to be lower. But that, (deficit) is lower than the revenue function," he explained.

He explained that if the receipt has been set, it remains only to regulate the problem of government spending on how much and the posture of state spending will be prepared by the new government of the Prabowo era.

Therefore, his party understands the need for state spending for new programs, and will be placed in the posture of the state budget.

"This story will be read by all, the market will see, okay, this is make sense. I really understand what Mr. Dolfie meant earlier, we will definitely continue to try, because this is a gamble for Indonesia too," he said.

Previously, Deputy Chairman of Commission XI of the House of Representatives, Dolfie Onniel Frederic, asked Finance Minister Sri Mulyani to have the posture of the state budget in the era of the elected president Prabowo Subianto with a small debt burden.

"The 2025 state budget makes a low deficit as a start, not immediately high. It is already a lot of debt, entering the new government is burdened with large debts. Let the new government start with the smallest debt burden," he explained.