Sri Mulyani Budgets IDR 20.3 Trillion In 2025 To Improve Schools

Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani. (Photo: Maria Trisnawati/VOI)

JAKARTA - Finance Minister Sri Mulyani allocated at least Rp20.3 trillion which will be used as a budget to repair damaged schools.

This is because there are still many school buildings that are damaged with mild to severe damage.

The State Treasurer said this was also the mandate of Elected President Prabowo Subianto to disburse the budget on school revitalization.

"Mr. President-elect asked for school revitalization to be emphasized. We allocated Rp20.3 trillion for the quality of education, especially for buildings, because so many buildings were heavily, middle, moderately damaged," Sri Mulyani said at the 2025 RAPBN Press Conference, Friday, August 16.

Sri Mulyani is the culprit, this school building revitalization project is one of the priority programs for the new government so that they can set rehabilitation and school improvement targets for 2025.

Furthermore, Sri Mulyani revealed, there are at least 22.000 schools consisting of public schools and religious schools that will be revitalized with the budget mentioned.

"It is hoped that it can create multipliers because this construction is simple, local construction companies can do it. We hope that there will be an impact on growth and employment," continued Sri Mulyani.

Meanwhile, continued Sri Mulyani, the education budget from 2015 to 2023 reached IDR 4006.1 trillion and the education budget in 2025 was allocated IDR 722.6 trillion.

Quoted from the Financial Note Book II document of the 2025 RAPBN, the education budget policy for the 2025 fiscal year is one of them used to improve the quality of educational facilities and infrastructure and revitalization of schools.

This quality improvement is carried out to support teaching and learning activities, especially in disadvantaged, frontier, and widest (3T) areas both in education and religious education.

In addition, the education budget is also aimed at increasing access to education, strengthening the competence of teachers and education personnel, to strengthening vocational education with the labor market.