Keep The Dividend Deposit Of IDR 85 Trillion As The Great Task Of The Minister Of SOEs In The Prabowo-Gibran Era

Secretary of the Ministry of SOEs Rabin Indrajad Hattari. (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - Maintaining dividend payments given by State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) to the state of the era of Erick Thohir, is the main task of the Minister of SOEs for the Prabowo-Gibran government. The target for this year's dividend deposit is IDR 85 trillion.

The Secretary of the Ministry of SOEs, Rabin Indrajad Hattari, said that whoever the Minister of SOEs is, must be able to maintain dividend deposits of IDR 85 trillion. He said maintaining dividend payments of that amount is definitely quite heavy.

"If asked what is the heaviest homework? Yes, dividends. The next SOE Minister, whoever has to hold (dividend deposit) IDR 85, right. That's already a commitment to the DPR that has been set," said Rabin when met in Cileungsi, West Java, written Thursday, August 1.

Moreover, he continued, if you look at the current fiscal condition, it is not impossible that the dividend deposit target in the era of the Minister of SOEs Prabowo-Gibran will be increased in number.

"It must be in the future with the current fiscal conditions, if the dividend is set at Rp. 85 trillion, we will definitely ask for more," he said.

Rabin said that to be able to maintain and even increase the number of BUMN dividend payments to the state, it must be supported by the increasing performance of state-owned companies.

"What does added dividends mean? The performance of the SOEs must be boosted," he said.

Meanwhile, continued Rabin, the increase in SOE performance must also be supported by good corporate governance.

"If the performance is getting boosted, what does that mean? The governance must be further improved. So the key is dividends," he said.

Previously, Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir reminded the president directors of state-owned companies to be able to deposit dividends for the 2024 financial year of IDR 85 trillion.

The target set in 2024 is much higher than the BUMN dividend deposit during 2023, which is IDR 81 trillion.

"The state needs more. Therefore, this afternoon I met the president directors (principles directors) reminding that the dividends must increase again by Rp. 85 trillion," Erick said at the 2024 BCOMSS Night Awarding event, at Tennis Indoor Senayan, Central Jakarta, Thursday, March 7.

Along with this target, Erick said the process of transforming state-owned companies will continue to be encouraged.

Therefore, state-owned companies are still asked to continue to transform both in terms of business models and adaptive attitudes towards all changes that occur in the future.