Discourse On Budget Reallocation, Ministry Of Law Strives For IDR 56 Billion For Legal Aid

Minister of Law Supratman Andi Agtas at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Monday 4 November. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Law seeks to reallocate a budget that can still be used to increase the budget for free legal assistance for underprivileged people, which is currently only allocated Rp56 billion per year.

"We maximize it, because it is an effort to help small communities who do not have access to legal aid institutions but want to get justice," said Supratman's Minister of Law Andi Agtas in Jakarta, Monday, November 4, confiscated by Antara.

According to him, in a year the National Legal Development Agency (BPHN) only received a budget of Rp56 billion to provide free legal assistance to the underprivileged.

The budget, said Minister Supratman, has not been able to meet the needs so that the Ministry of Law seeks to meet the reallocation of the ministry's budget that has been planned.

"We will discuss it again, and reduce which budgets can be reallocated so that they can help the community," he said.

Minister Supratman added that President Prabowo Subianto has mandated that the budget spent can be allocated to the needs of the community at large.

"Because the President's direction is clear, because there are many budgets that should be allocated for the needs of the people rather than those that have been planned and we will try that," he said when answering questions from members of the DPR during a Joint Working Meeting with Commission XIII.

On Monday Commission XIII of the DPR RI held a Working Meeting with the Ministry of Law, and this is the first working meeting after the ministry was broken down.

The working meeting was attended by Minister of Law Supratman Andi Agtas, Deputy Minister of Law Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej alias Eddy Hiariej and a number of officials at the Ministry of Law.