DPR Cuts Electricity, Phone And Transportation Allowances For Council Members

Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Monday (20/1/2025). (ANTARA/Good Ahmad Rizaldi)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) has agreed to cut allowances and a number of council members' facilities, such as electricity subscription fees, telephone services, intensive communication, to transportation allowances.

This agreement was decided after a consultation meeting between the leadership of the DPR and the factions on Thursday, September 4, 2025.

"The DPR RI will cut allowances and facilities for members of the DPR after the evaluation includes subscription fees. There is electricity and telephone service costs, then intensive communication costs and transportation allowance costs," said Deputy Speaker of the DPR RI, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, at a press conference, Friday, September 5.

In addition to cutting these allowances and facilities, Dasco continued, the DPR also agreed to stop providing housing allowances for DPR RI members starting on August 31, 2025.

"As well as conducting a moratorium on working abroad visits to the DPR RI starting from September 1, 2025, except for attending state laws," he said.

Furthermore, Dasco also said that members of the Indonesian House of Representatives who had been deactivated by their political parties had not paid their financial rights.

"The DPR will also follow up on the inactivation, several members of the DPR RI who have been carried out by political parties through their respective political party courts," he said.

Each member of the DPR RI receives a basic salary of IDR 4,200,000 in accordance with Government Regulation Number 75 of 2000. In addition, a husband or wife allowance of IDR 420,000 and a child allowance of IDR 168,000, which is regulated in Government Regulation Number 51 of 1992.

Members of the DPR also received a position allowance of IDR 9,700,000 based on Government Regulation Number 59 of 2003, a rice allowance of IDR 289,680 in accordance with Presidential Decree Number 9 of 1982, as well as a trial or package of IDR 2,000,000 as stipulated in Presidential Decree Number 60 of 2003. Thus, the total basic salary and attached allowances received by DPR members amounted to Rp. 16,777,680.

Apart from that, there is a constitutional allowance with a much larger value. This component consists of an increase in intensive communication with the community of Rp. 20,033,000, an honorary allowance of Rp. 7,187,000, and an allowance for increasing the supervisory and budget function as a constitutional implementation of the council of Rp. 4,830,000.

In addition, members of the DPR also received honorariums for increasing the function of the council, each Rp8,461,000 for legislative functions, Rp8,461,000 for supervisory functions, and Rp8,461,000 for budget functions. The total constitutional allowances reached Rp57,433,000.

If you add up with basic salary and attached allowances, the gross income of DPR members reaches IDR 74,210,680 per month. Of this amount, the income tax of 15 percent for constitutional allowances is deducted by IDR 8,614,950. Thus, take home pay (THP) received by DPR members every month reaches IDR 65,595,730.

Additional notes state that the retirement of DPR members is regulated in Law Number 12 of 1980, with a maximum amount of 6 percent and a maximum of 75 percent of the base of retirement.

Based on PP 75 of 2000, the highest acceptable pensions reached Rp3,639,540 for a two-term term, Rp2,935,704 for one full period, and Rp401,894 for a short term of office between one and six months.

The letter numbered B/496/PW.11.01/09/2025 was signed by the Chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Puan Maharani, and Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, Saan Mustopa, and Cucun Ahmad Syamsurijal.