KPUPR's Budget Is IDR 75.63 Trillion In 2025, Minister Basuki: Give Prabowo Fiscal Space

PUPR Minister Basuki Hadimuljono. (Photo: Theresia Agatha/VOI)

JAKARTA - Minister of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Basuki Hadimuljono conveyed an explanation of the ministry's indicative budget ceiling which was cut to Rp75.63 trillion in 2025.

This indicative ceiling also dropped drastically when compared to the Ministry of PUPR budget ceiling in 2024, which amounted to IDR 146.98 trillion.

According to Basuki, the reduction in the budget ceiling is a common thing in the transition of government.

Considering, he said, the Ministry of PUPR budget ceiling in 2014 or the first year of President Jokowi's tenure was only IDR 75 trillion.

Basuki said that the decline in the ministry's budget ceiling during the transitional government was deliberately carried out by the government to provide wider fiscal space for the elected president and vice president to start running their priority programs.

"That is, right, exactly like when Pak Jokowi entered the 2014 government. I, right, opened the file, it was IDR 75 trillion. So, that's what gave the elected president fiscal space to allocate," said Basuki when met at his office, Tuesday, August 20.

He considered that the budget of IDR 75.63 trillion in 2025 was still in the form of an indicative ceiling.

So, said Basuki, there is still a possibility that the budget can be added, depending on the direction of the President-Elect Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka program.

"That's just an indicative ceiling, not yet final. That's just the three ministerial indicative ceiling, that's Bappenas, the Minister of Finance and the budget agency. In fact, there is still another fiscal space prepared by the Minister of Finance for the President to be elected prioritizing programs," he said.