Jokowi To Ministers: Let's Pursue 2020 Budget Realization!

President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. (Photo: Presidential Secretariat)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) asked all his ministers to concentrate on pursuing the realization of this year's budget. Given that in less than three weeks, 2020 will end soon.

"Then the second is related to the realization of the 2020 budget. It is only about three weeks left, only three weeks, practically three weeks. So I ask everyone to concentrate on what is called the 2020 expenditure realization," he said, opening a plenary cabinet session which was held. broadcast via YouTube the Presidential Secretariat, Tuesday, December 1.

In addition to pursuing the 2020 budget absorption target, Jokowi also reminded ministers and ministerial level officials to immediately spend the budget in January 2021. This instruction is aimed at ministries / agencies that have large budget allocations.

"Ministries and institutions that have medium and small expenditures are also the same so that they immediately spend their budgets in early January," he said.

Jokowi warned ministers and ministerial level officials not to realize spending in February 2021.

"I remind you once again, all expenditures can be realized in early January, at the beginning of the year. So that the auction should have started now because the DIPA was distributed yesterday and could be auctioned off immediately," he said.

For your information, the government is indeed racing against time to complete this year's spending. The National Economic Recovery Budget (PEN), for example, until mid-November 2020, had only absorbed IDR 386.01 trillion or 55.5 percent of the budget ceiling valued at IDR 695.2 trillion.