The Minister Of Industry Plans To Give Incentives To Imbas Producers The Implementation Of Excise On Sweetened Drinks 2025

Sweetened drink (photo; Unsplash)

JAKARTA - The State Financial Accountability Agency of the House of Representatives (BAKN DPR) and the government approved a proposal for an excise rate for packaged sugary drinks (MBDK) in 2025 of at least 2.5 percent and will increase gradually to 20 percent.

This is stated in the conclusion of the DPR's BAKN Working Meeting with the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) regarding Tobacco Product Excise (CHT) during the first session of 2024-2025.

"BAKN recommends the government to implement MBDK excise of at least 2.5 percent by 2025 and gradually up to 20 percent," Wahyu said in a working meeting between BAKN and the Ministry of Finance, Tuesday, September 10.

Responding to this, the Minister of Industry (Menperin) Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita said that the imposition of MBDK excise would definitely have an impact on people's purchasing power.

Given, currently the purchasing power of people in the country is also weakening. "Yes, I think if the impact will be there because if we hear a lot of explanations that people's purchasing power is weakening. So, I think there will be an influence on the price itself," said Minister of Industry Agus when met at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Thursday, September 12.

The Minister of Industry said, in order to anticipate this, his party would prepare incentives for beverage industry producers.

"Maybe later we will be able to prepare related to incentives that we can allocate to the producers themselves so that they don't raise prices," he said.

Even so, Agus has not been able to clearly disclose the amount of incentives that will be disbursed. Given, the Ministry of Industry also only gets a budget for 2025 of IDR 2.5 trillion.

"We can try to learn these incentives later," he said.