JAKARTA - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Bahlil Lahadalia responded to the amount of the budget approved by the DPR RI Budget Agency for the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in 2025. According to him, the low budget was deliberately carried out by the Ministry of Finance to make the construction of the Cisem II and Dusem gas pipeline projects fail.

Just so you know, Commission VII of the DPR RI has agreed on a budget of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in 2025 of IDR 3.91 trillion.

Responding to this, Bahlil said that this budget would actually be used for the construction of a number of infrastructures such as the Cirebon-Semarang 2 and Dumai-Sei Mangkei transmission gas pipelines. According to him, this program has been tendered by the previous Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Arifin Tasrif.

"If it is not budgeted, it means that we, especially the Ministry of Finance, are deliberately trying to make this program fail," Bahlil said in a Working Meeting with Commission VII DPR RI, Thursday, September 12.

Bahlil said that previously his party asked for a budget for 2025 of more than Rp. 10 trillion which would later be allocated Rp. 3.91 trillion for operational and routine spending at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. Meanwhile, Rp. 4.2 trillion will be allocated to build jargas, and others for the populist program.

"So we are of the opinion, because it has been approved, we will receive Rp3.91 trillion," concluded Bahlil.


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