The Budget For Non-Public And Official Schools Is Considered Jomplang, The DPR Urges The Government To Count Again

Deputy Chairman of Commission X DPR RI Dede Yusuf in the Education Financing Committee RDP with the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Home Affairs at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Wednesday (19/6/2024). (ANTARA-Screenshot)

JAKARTA - The Working Committee (Panja) for Education Financing Commission X of the Indonesian House of Representatives encourages the government through re-calculation of the official and non-service school budget for the upcoming fiscal year. "The committee encourages the government through the Ministry of Education and Culture to Bappenas and the Ministry of Finance implement PP Number 18/2022 concerning Education Funding, among others, through the recount of the education budget allocation by ministries/agencies in the implementation of official and non-service education in the preparation of the RAPBN next year," said Deputy Chairman of Commission X DPR RI Dede Yusuf at the Meeting with the Opinion of the Education Financing Committee with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Home Affairs in Jakarta, Wednesday, June 19, which was confiscated by Antara. The push is one of the conclusion points of the Hearing Meeting (RDP) attended by representatives of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendarigri).

Previously, the issue of the official school budget was one of the things that was highlighted by the Education Financing Committee at the meeting.

Dede assessed that the amount of the budget allocated to official schools was different or Jomplang with a non-service education budget which was both allocated from the Ministry of Education and Culture. "There are services that enter college, they are paid in full until they are uniform, all of them are paid for, enter service and are immediately accepted. But many are also ultimately not accepted and with the standard financing does not use the standards of the Ministry of Education, so there is also disparity between lecturers who teach at the Ministry of Education and lecturers who teach in other ministries/agencies," said Dede. Responding to that, the Director General of Vocational Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture Kiki Yuliati explained budget allocation data for every Ministry/Institutional University (PTKL) student or official school every year.

"We can see how much the budget per student per year is allocated. Some even reach Rp. 67,000,000 (average per student per year). So if we look at the very high, Mr. Leadership, it is very high even though this is both Indonesian citizens," he said. In the data presented by the Ministry of Education and Culture, it is known that there are 24 street vendors in Indonesia, 16 of which are financed by the state through the allocation of education budgets. The largest budget allocation is received by the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub). Government financing per student for PTKL at the ministry can reach Rp155 million per year.