JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto officially inaugurated Purbaya Yudhi Sadivewa as Minister of Finance replacing Sri Mulyani, Monday, September 8.
In his inaugural press conference, Purbaya said that he planned to meet and ask for direct input from Sri Mulyani regarding fiscal policy, especially in order to identify and improve the weaknesses that exist in the Ministry of Finance.
"We will retire (mission) with Mrs. Sri Mulyani here, I will study messages from her to improve here what weakness," he said at a press conference, Monday, September 8.
Purbaya admits that every system must have shortcomings, but the experience and message from Sri Mulyani will be very valuable to her and the ranks of the Ministry of Finance to strengthen the fiscal role in encouraging economic growth.
"There must be a weakness that knowledge is very useful for me and my friends here to optimize fiscal boosts to the economy. So I was resigned when I was appointed as Minister of Finance," he said.
However, Purbaya said that he had not had time to meet Sri Mulyani after the inauguration.
"Not yet, because I also just found out earlier at more than 1. To still have a suit if not," he said.
He added that so far he has established regular communication with Sri Mulyani, especially in the Financial System Stability Committee (KSSK) forum which is held every quarter.
"If I meet Mrs. Sri Mulyani, it's every KSSK every three months, sometimes every few months I find her, that's where she talks," he explained.
He said that President Prabowo Subianto's directive was quite clear, namely reversing the economic direction and encouraging faster economic growth to be appointed to the position of Minister of Finance.
"First, I just found out earlier at half past two times, so I haven't had much thought about it. But the President's message is to turn the economy around, create faster economic growth, as soon as possible. That's what we will do in the future," he said.
He explained that the initial step was to evaluate the state's financial condition and identify instruments that could still be optimized to support the acceleration of economic growth.
"I will see in finance what is wrong, what instruments we can still optimize, there we will maximize so that the economy will run again. It's no longer a way, it's going faster. Later when the road is said to stop now," he said.
He also mentioned the tax ratio (tax ratio to GDP) which has been relatively constant and the increase in tax ratio cannot be done in a short time and to encourage this requires accelerating economic growth.
"Nothing, I'll just see what the point is. Only if you look at it, what is usually the constant one? The tax ratio is constant, the tax per GDP. Let's say we can't change in the near future, to increase the tax, we will accelerate the economic growth. That's roughly so," he explained.
As for whether there was a special direction regarding the formation of a state revenue agency, Purbaya said that President Prabowo had no specific directive regarding this matter.
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"Nothing yet. I don't think I like it, I asked, sir, how about it, sir? Can I do it or not? That's about it. I don't know because I'm new, can that be a code or not?," he explained.
Purbaya emphasized that he would still respect the existing system, instead of carrying out a massive overhaul.
"So we will optimize the existing system. Usually, if the new leader is ugliness like this, if the old new leader is torn apart, make it new again, because he wants to make a new milestone, right. I won't be like that, the approach is the existing conditions, I optimize it so that the system can work optimally, we will optimize it, we will speed it up again," he added.
He emphasized that this is not about changing machines, but perfecting old machines so they can work more optimally.
"So everything is not a new engine, it's an old machine but we make it even better in the future. These are all smart people here," he said.
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