Given Sri Mulyani Rp. 6 Trillion, Minister Trenggono Asks DPR To Increase The KKP Budget 2-fold To Rp. 14 Trillion

Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) has proposed an additional budget for the 2022 Indicative Expenditure Ceiling draft of Rp8.04 trillion. Through this additional spending plan, the total KKP spending next year will increase from Rp6 trillion to Rp14.1 trillion.

Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono said the proposal was intended to boost the productivity of the marine and fisheries sector to be more optimal so that the welfare of the community would also increase.

In detail, he explained that the addition consisted of operational expenditures of Rp.236.61 billion which would be used to fulfill personnel expenditures and office operations at the center and in the regions.

Then non-operational expenditures of Rp.7.8 trillion were used to implement national priority programs and KKP breakthroughs.

"Given the strategic role of the KKP in the national development agenda and to be able to carry out priority activities for the benefit of the community in economic recovery and food security, the KKP proposes an additional budget ceiling of Rp8.04 trillion," he said in a working meeting with Commission IV DPR RI at the Parliament Complex. Senayan, Jakarta.

Trenggono explained that his party had prepared several activity plans, such as for the fishing sector in the form of providing facilities and infrastructure for the implementation of post-production capture fisheries non-tax state revenue collection (PNBP).

Then, the development of the aquaculture sector through the revitalization of shrimp and milkfish ponds, the development of shrimp estates, the construction of aquaculture villages, assistance for aquaculture facilities and infrastructure, independent feed, and technical guidance for fish cultivators.

Meanwhile, related to the realization of the 2021 KKP budget absorption, as of June 1, 2021, the realization reached Rp. 1.58 trillion or 24.07 percent of the total budget ceiling of Rp. 6.562 trillion.

"We have submitted an additional budget ceiling proposal, which in essence is to strengthen the government's presence in the community in order to improve welfare," he said.

To note, based on the Joint Letter of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of National Development Planning/Head of Bappenas Number S-361 and B.238 dated April 29, 2021 regarding the Indicative Ceiling of Expenditures for K/L FY 2022, KKP received a budget allocation of IDR 6.122 trillion.

This amount consists of operational expenditure of Rp. 2.6 trillion and non-operational expenditure of Rp. 3.5 trillion.