BMKG Proposes FY 2023 Budget Ceiling Of IDR 3,398 Trillion

Head of BMKG Dwikorita Karnawati/ANTARA

JAKARTA - The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has proposed a work design and budget ceiling for the 2023 fiscal year (FY) of IDR 3.398 trillion.

"Based on the BMKG strategic plan (renstra), the proposed 2023 budget ceiling is IDR 3.398 trillion," said BMKG Head Dwikorita Karnawati at the House Commission V Hearing Meeting with BMKG and Basarnas as reported by Antara, Tuesday, May 31.

Dwikorita detailed that the proposed ceiling was used for operational expenditures of Rp.986.87 billion for personnel expenditures and office service operational expenditures.

Then the non-operational expenditure of Rp. 2.422 trillion for BMKG support for the national priority of 2023, expenditure for institutional priorities, goods and capital expenditure for MKG equipment in 195 work units, as well as maintenance of MKG equipment.

Meanwhile, BMKG itself has an indicative ceiling for FY 2023 of Rp. 3.010 trillion, with details of the management support program of Rp. 1.315 trillion and the MKG program of Rp. 1.694 trillion.

Dwikorita said the proposed work plan and budget will now target the target of optimizing big data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) implementation of smart intelligence information system 5.0 integrated with community involvement through direct and digital, continuous improvement of service quality and human resource development (superior HR). ), as well as developing the duties and responsibilities of central and regional units.

The plan includes doubling the target participants for the Earthquake Field School, Climate Field School, and Weather Field School.

"To be 10 times more than the indicative ceiling," said Dwikorita.

Then from the results of the budget draft and compared with the indicative ceiling, there is a need figure or "backlog" of IDR 387.71 billion.

"The backlog has resulted in the non-fulfillment of the alotama network density in the context of anticipating hydrometeorological disasters, operational support facilities for climate weather and earthquakes as well as the fulfillment of operational support expenditures for the tasks and functions of units in the context of maintaining MKG's main operational equipment," said Dwikorita.

In conclusion, the chairman of Commission V of the DPR, Lasarus, will fight for an increase in the budget for the two institutions, including the BMKG, in order to cover the shortfall in budget needs.

"Commission V together with BMKG and Basarnas will fight for an increase in the budget to close the backlog of national priority programs and community-based programs, according to the mechanism for discussing the Bill on the 2023 FY State Budget at the DPR RI," said Lasarus.