Delayed, DKI RAPBD Is Targeted To Be Completed On December 11

The plenary meeting of the DKI DPRD (Diah Ayu Wardani / VOI)

JAKARTA - The DPRD and DKI Pemprov have agreed to target the ratification of the 2020 Draft Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (RAPBD) on 11 December.

"So, for the plenary of the 2020 DKI Regional Budget Draft will be completed on December 11," said the Head of Bamus Prasetyo Edi Marsudi at the DKI DPRD Building, Monday, November 25.

The stages, 29 November DPRD and Pemprov passed a general policy on the temporary budget priority ceiling (KUA-PPAS) through an MoU. Then, on December 2, the Governor of DKI, Anies Baswedan, gave a speech about the Draft Regional Regulation on APBD.

From December 3 to 10, discussion of the RAPBD is scheduled from the commission level to the final view by the DPRD. The day after that, the RAPBD was passed. Then, the RAPBD is brought to the Ministry of Home Affairs for evaluation within a few days. The final stage, the evaluation result RAPBD will be stipulated as Perda APBD 2020.

The target for ratification of the RAPBD is actually delayed from PP No. 12 of 2019 concerning Regional Financial Management. Article 106 PP 12/2019 states, regional heads and DPRD are required to ratify the draft regional budget (APBD) no later than 1 month before the start of the fiscal year or November 30.

DKI Regional Secretary Saefullah asked for an announcement. This is because the discussion on the draft has been delayed from the start due to a change in the period of the DKI DPRD from the 2014-2019 term to 2019-2024.

"In the middle there is a DPRD transition. Be patient," said Saefullah.

In this case, the Provincial Government and DPRD override the stipulated deadline for ratification of the RAPBD. According to them, DKI still has time to discuss the RAPBD for 60 days, according to Ministry of Home Affairs regulations. However, the discussion on the RAPBD that will be held since November 3 may not last for 60 days because it will pass through the turn of the year.

Even so, Saefullah said the final decision on the APBD would not pass from December 31. Given, the Ministry of Home Affairs has 15 days to evaluate.

"So, after it was ratified on December 11, we sent it to the Ministry of Home Affairs for evaluation. If we add 15 days, so (evaluation is complete) on the 26th. Back from the evaluation (Ministry of Home Affairs), there is still time for us to agree on and then promulgate it," explained Saefullah.

Contacted separately, the Ministry of Home Affairs' Director General of Regional Finance Syarifuddin stated that the Bamus decision violated the regional financial planning stages. This is because they are targeting the RAPBD to pass from 30 November.

Even so, Syarifuddin could not confirm the existence of administrative sanctions from the Ministry of Home Affairs to the DPRD and Pemprov DKI. What is clear, Syarifuddin admits that the Ministry of Home Affairs will be inconvenienced in evaluating the DKI RAPBD if it only has 15 days.

"If the ratification is more than November 30, it means that we will evaluate it at least 15 days later, that's a red light because (the RAPBD evaluation) is thick. The period of 15 days to evaluate (feels) empot-empotan," said Syarifuddin.