Entering The 2025 RKP, Minister Suharso Ensures That Civil Servant Salaries Rise Gradually

Minister of National Development Planning (PPN)/Head of the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Suharso Monoarfa. (Theresia Agatha/VOI)

JAKARTA - Minister of National Development Planning/Head of Bappenas Suharso Monoarfa said, the 2025 RAPBN will be focused on implementing the flagship programs of the President and Vice President-elect Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

Suharso explained, there are at least eight Prabowo-Gibran flagship programs that have been included in the 2025 RAPBN posture. Including free nutritious meals to the increase in salaries of ASN (PNS and PPPK).

"That the Government Work Plan (RKP) in 2025 has been combined with the Fast Best Result Program (PHTC) introduced by the elected president and vice president," said Suharso at a press conference on the Draft State Revenue and Expenditure Budget and the 2025 FY Financial Note at the office of the Directorate General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance, Jakarta, Friday, August 16.

He said, for the free nutritious food program, the government has prepared a budget of IDR 71 trillion which is intended for 15.42 million school children in 514 districts/cities.

"First, for example, those who provide healthy nutritious food in schools to cover 15.42 million people in 514 districts/cities," said Suharso.

As for the increase in civil servants salaries, said Suharso, in the future the government will focus on improving welfare, especially for teachers, lecturers, health workers and extension workers as well as the TNI/Polri in stages.

"The increase in the salaries of state civil servants, especially teachers, lecturers, health workers and extension workers as well as the TNI and Polri in stages," he said.

In addition, the government has also prepared a program to increase the productivity of agricultural land and food barns with an area of 50-80 thousand hectares (ha). Then there is also a free health check program and completes the TB case.

"The fourth is building four excellent high school schools in IKN, NTT, North Sulawesi and North Maluku. Repairing schools that need renovation as many as 90,000 classrooms," he explained.

Fifth, continue and add social welfare card programs as well as business cards to eliminate absolute poverty, which this year has reached 0.8 percent, with a target of 0 percent by 2025.

"Sixth is village infrastructure development and guarantees the provision of houses with sanitation for those in need. Especially the millennial generation, generation Z and low-income people (MBR) as many as 914,573 landed and vertical residential units.

Furthermore, the eradication of slum settlements with a target of 563.1 ha. "And the eighth is to optimize state revenues," he said.