Banggar DPR Cermatika High Tax Revenue Not Optimally Press Poverty In DIY

Deputy Chairman of Banggar DPR RI Cucun Ahmad Syamsurijal in a joint photo session after a meeting with the Head of the DIY Provincial Treasury Regional Office and staff (IST)

JAKARTA - The DPR RI Budget Agency (Banggar) observed the high tax revenue does not provide stimulus to the high poverty rate in the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY).

Deputy Chairman of the Banggar DPR RI, Cucun Ahmad Syamsurijal, said that based on the tax revenue report in 2022 it reached IDR 5.5 trillion, an increase of 114 percent.

Even so, said Cucun, the poverty rate in Yogyakarta reached 11.5 percent and where this figure is the highest figure on the island of Java.

"This is very ironic, when the high poverty rate becomes an anomaly in the midst of economic recovery and the recovery of tourism activities. For this reason, all local stakeholders need synergy in terms of the economy, so that they have a solution to reduce poverty," Cucun explained in a release received by Voi.id Wednesday, February 15.

This PKB politician continued that at the meeting of the DIY Tax Regional Office, Banggar encouraged efforts to empower Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as a catalyst for economic activity in DIY, it was hoped that the empowerment of MSMEs would be a way out so that it could reduce poverty here.

"I also ask the Regional Office of Bank Indonesia DIY and the Office of Representatives of the Ministry of Finance to help provide solutions to overcome poverty, through encouraging the development of MSMEs for communities around the DIY region, which is expected to reduce the number rather than poverty," he said.

On the other hand, tax revenues that can exceed the target in 2022, can show that the economic recovery in DIY can run well, because tax revenues grow by 19.24% from realization in 2021.

"The increase in tax revenue and economic recovery at a very important value is expected, it can become capital for DIY in dealing with uncertainty due to global economic challenges in 2023 and 2024 which remain high", said the legislator for the West Java II electoral district.

To maintain the trend of economic recovery, and inflation in DIY requires coordination and control team policies to maintain the growing economic condition of DIY. This is the task of Bank Indonesia and the Regional Inflation Control Team (TPID) as the Inflation control team in order to control economic growth and maintained inflation.