DKI Provincial Government Again Asks For Infiltration Wells To Be Budgeted In 2022 APBD, DPRD Refuses: It's Stealth!

Plenary Session of the DKI Jakarta DPRD (Photo: DOK VOI/Diah Ayu)

JAKARTA - DKI Regional Secretary Marullah Matali asked the DKI DPRD to allow the budget for the construction of infiltration wells to be included in the DKI Regional Budget for the 2022 fiscal year.

Previously, in the preparation of the APBD draft, the DKI Provincial Government proposed a budget ceiling for infiltration wells. However, because it was deemed not very useful for flood prevention, the DPRD crossed out the budget.

Then, the request for budgeting for infiltration wells was again submitted at the DPRD Budget Board meeting which discussed the Ministry of Home Affairs' evaluation of the 2022 APBD Raperda.

"We ask that on the opportunity to discuss the results of the evaluation of the Ministry of Home Affairs today, it can also be considered for re-inputting the PASK (description of sub-activity activities) in the RKPD (regional work plan), RPJMD, regional priorities, including the construction of infiltration wells," said Marullah. in a meeting at the DKI DPRD Building, Thursday, January 13.

Marullah considers that the addition of the program budget is still possible even though the 2022 APBD Raperda has been evaluated by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The condition is that there must be an agreement with the Chair of the DKI DPRD as the Banggar Leader with the Regional Government Budget Team (TAPD) as stated in the official report.

"Therefore, what is stated in this official report must be a joint program, both the regional priority programs of the DRPD or the governor's program, all of which become one, which is the priority program of the DKI Jakarta province," explained Marullah.

However, it turns out that the Chairman of the DKI DPRD as well as the Banggar Chair of the DKI DPRD, Prasetyo Edi Marsudi, is still reluctant to include the infiltration well budget into the DKI Regional Budget for the 2022 budget year. He conveyed this after the meeting.

"I crossed it out because it was finished in Banggar and it was decided at the plenary meeting. (The infiltration well budget) cannot be re-entered. If it is entered again, it is stealth," said Prasetyo.

Prasetyo views the construction of infiltration wells as useless in alleviating flooding, even though the program has been included in the RKPD. Moreover, the rejection of this budget is the right of the Jakarta DPRD Banggar.

"RKPD is what it's used for. Now I can do it. I'm the decision maker. I have the right to write off the budget if the infiltration well is useless," said Prasetyo.