Bogor Regency Government Add Grant Funds For Political Parties Up To 100 Percent In 2024

Regional Government Office Complex, Cibinong, Bogor Regency, West Java. (ANTARA/M Fikri Setiawan)

BOGOR - Bogor Regency Government, West Java, through the National Unity and Political Unity Agency (Bakesbangpol) increased the portion of financial assistance funds for political parties in 2024 to 100 percent. "Next year there will be an addition from Rp. 2,500 per vote to Rp. 5,000 per vote," said Head of the Domestic Politics Division of Bakesbangpol Bogor Regency, Supendi in Bogor, Antara, Wednesday, August 16. However, he admitted that he did not know that the Rp5,000 per vote budget would be multiplied by the number of votes acquired by each party from the 2024 Legislative Election (Pileg), or still referring to the 2019 Legislative Election vote acquisition. If you still refer to the party vote acquisition in the 2019 Legislative Election, the Bogor Regency Government needs to prepare a budget of around Rp. 11 billion more for the 2024 political party grant fund. In 2022 and 2023 the Bogor Regency Government has budgeted Rp5.85 billion in grant funds for political parties. This figure calculates from Rp2,500 multiplied by the number of votes of political parties that received seats in the Bogor Regency DPRD in the results of the 2019 Legislative Election, which was 2,341,973 votes. Each political party received various nominal financial assistance, according to each vote. The highest is the Gerindra Party with 570,658 votes. Then, at least the Hanura Party with 61,111 votes. Head of the Bogor Regency Baresbangpol Bambang Widodo Tawekal explained that the financial assistance funds could be disbursed by each political party every year by pocketing recommendations from the General Election Commission (KPU) of Bogor Regency. "Each party is different (nominal). Most of us (Bogor Regency) Gerindra. In total there are nine parties that get it," said Bambang. Before the political party grant fund experienced a nominal increase in 2022, the Bogor Regency Government budgeted only around IDR 3.5 billion for the nine political parties in 2021. Bambang hopes that the nominal increase can be used by political parties to increase voter participation in every democratic party event.