Budget Revision After Pemekan, West Papua Bawaslu Proposed 2024 Pilkada Funds Of IDR 300 Billion

Illustration of the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu). (Between)

WEST PAPUA - The Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) of West Papua Province proposed a 2024 Pilkada budget to the local provincial government of more than Rp. 300 billion. West Papua Bawaslu chairman Elias Ijie said that the initial scheme for proposing a grant for supervision of the implementation of the governor election was Rp. 700 billion, then revised to Rp. 300 billion due to the new autonomous regional expansion at the end of 2022, namely the Southwest Papua Province. "We have submitted the proposal rationalization to the provincial government through the general bureau," he said in Manokwari, West Papua, Friday, February 17, confiscated Antara. Bawaslu, he said, continues to coordinate with the provincial government so that the proposed grant funds are immediately realized so that the regional election supervision runs optimally. This is because the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a circular to all regional heads in Indonesia to allocate the 2024 Pilkada funds. "We have written the regional government but until now there has been no meeting," he said.

According to him, the 2024 Pilkada financing support scheme is sourced from the 2023 Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD) as much as 40 percent and the rest is accommodated in the 2024 APBD. The financing report for KPU and Bawaslu from local governments, both provinces and regencies or cities, will later be reported to the Ministry of Home Affairs at the end of May 2023. "I have submitted it to the Director General of Politics of the Ministry of Home Affairs regarding our condition, which until now has not met with the local government," he explained. Elias continued that in the near future the provincial Bawaslu will hold a meeting with district/city Bawaslu both in West Papua and Southwest Papua. The goal is to find out the regional head who has followed up the Ministry of Home Affairs circular regarding budget support for election organizers.

"I hope that early March Bawaslu will be able to meet the local government," he said. In addition, West Papua Bawaslu also received non-stage regional election funding from the provincial government worth IDR 5 billion. The results of coordination with the West Papua National and Political Unity Agency (Kesbangpol), disbursement of non-stage grant funds waiting for the distribution of the 2023 Budget Implementation Document (DPA). 2023. "The information we received was Rp. 5 billion in non-stage assistance but we have not officially received it," Elias said., "he added.