JAKARTA - Minister of Public Works (PU) Dody Hanggodo stated that no matter how much nominal 'khlas' will be set by the Minister of Finance (Menkeu) Sri Mulyani to the Ministry of Public Works (PU) to work on various infrastructure projects in the country after the budget efficiency.
"Whatever, I'm fine. I want to give IDR 1 trillion, I'm okay, there's no problem," said Dody, quoted on Tuesday, February 11.
Dody was surprised why many journalists asked him about cutting the budget for the ministry he leads.
"I'm really excited, really, (about) cutting the budget. I'm more used to it. It's good," joked Dody.
"(Why is sir good?) Yes, I am healthier, yes. Yes, yes, more pious," he added.
According to Dody, the important thing to remember is that the construction of infrastructure projects is carried out optimally.
"O Allah, I'm okay with the minister. The important thing is, right, we do it optimally and perfectly," he concluded.
For your information, this year's Ministry of Public Works budget was cut by IDR 81.38 trillion after President Prabowo Subianto instructed spending savings from the APBN and APBD through Presidential Instruction Number 1 of 2025.
As a result, from the ceiling previously set at Rp110.95 trillion, now the Ministry of Public Works budget only remains at Rp29.57 trillion.
With the remaining budget currently, Minister Dody chose to limit the construction of a single year contract and a new multi-year contract sourced from pure rupiah. Then, limit the purchase of heavy equipment.
"We are now only optimizing the existing heavy equipment," said Dody in a working meeting (Raker) with Commission V DPR RI at the Senayan Parliament Building, Thursday, February 6.
The next policy is to limit emergency response funds that are more effective and efficient, limit official travel at home and abroad, reduce office writing equipment (ATK) spending, eliminate ceremonial activities, eliminate offline coordination meetings and replace them with online meetings.
Furthermore, eliminating public relations spending that is not a priority, such as banners and banners. The rest, Dody instructed the efficiency of operational spending and non-operational spending.
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