Susi Pudjiastuti Tweets About Debts In The Jokowi Era Of IDR 5.8 Trillion, Sri Mulyani's Men: These Are Government And Private Debts

Former Minister of KKP, Susi Pudjiastuti. (Photo: Twitter @susipudjiastuti)

JAKARTA - Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) for the 2014-2019 period, Susi Pudjiastuti, has again received public attention. After having made a scene with the unfollowing hate speech 'case', the quirky former bureaucrat returned to writing interesting things on his Twitter page.

On Tuesday, February 16, Susi uploaded a national media news link related to Indonesia's foreign debt at @susipudjiastuti. In this post, he did not provide any captions as supplementary material for the tweets.

Meanwhile, the news link he shared contained information that Indonesia was said to have foreign debts of IDR 5,803 trillion.

Apparently, the tweet was replied to by the Special Staff of the Minister of Finance Yustinus Prastowo, who was none other than Sri Mulyani's subordinate.

Yustinus wrote that the amount of debt was not solely created by the government but the accumulation of obligations with the private sector.

"Bu @susipudjiastuti ysh, permission to straighten it for public understanding only. The total external debt of Rp. 5. 803 T is government and private debt. The government's external debt is Rp. 2,907 Q. Why is it that @kompascom is all framed to Jokowi? This is what I mean, that we need to pay close attention to retweets without stories, "he said via @prastow on Wednesday, February 17th.

After a while Susi responded to Prastowo's tweet. He said that his upload was a signal of support to the government because it revealed factual information about government debt.

"Pak Prastowo, the compass article above is actually positive ... and in my opinion it is quite clear and good. There is no need for me to comment anymore. But there are friends who brp today are really antipathetic to me because my tweets unfollow my hatr speech ... all of my shares are considered negative, "said Susi @susipudjiastuti.

As previously reported by VOI, Bank Indonesia (BI) reported that Indonesia's foreign debt (ULN) at the end of the fourth quarter of 2020 was recorded at US $ 417.5 billion or the equivalent of 5.803 trillion or approaching the psychological level of Rp.6,000 trillion.

Head of the BI Communication Department Erwin Haryono said the figure was contributed by the public sector (government and central bank) amounting to US $ 209.2 billion and the private sector (including BUMN) US $ 208.3 billion.

"This foreign debt grew 3.5 percent on an annual basis, but decreased from the previous quarter which amounted to 3.9 percent. The slowdown is mainly due to the decline in the private sector, ”he said in a press statement, Monday, February 15.