DKI Provincial Government Will Withdraw School Canteen Retribution

School Canteen (DOK SMP Negeri 210 Jakarta)

Acting Head of the DKI Jakarta Education Office, Purwosusilo, said that the DKI Provincial Government will collect levies on the canteens in every public school in Jakarta. This aims to increase regional income.

Purwosusilo revealed that he would prepare a legal umbrella design to optimize the potential of regional retribution income from all school canteens.

"Indeed, regulations need to cover the use of school canteen assets. Later we will coordinate with BPAD," said Purwosusilo, quoted on Thursday, November 21.

In the records of the Education Office, there are about 1,788 canteens spread across all public schools. In detail, 1,305 in elementary schools (SD), 293 in junior high schools (SMP), 117 in high schools (SMA), and 73 in vocational high schools (SMK).

Previously, Deputy Chairman of Commission C of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Sutikno, received information in the field that there was a school canteen rental system that was set at IDR 5 million per year.

"The canteen at SMA 32 in the Cipulir area, there are around 14 canteens. But every year it pays Rp. 5 million, meaning that it has already reached Rp. 70 million in one school," said Sutikno on Tuesday, November 19.

According to Sutikno, the DKI Provincial Government should be able to see the potential of regional income from levies, considering that there are rental fees withdrawn by schools from these canteens.

"Schools are recorded for the canteen. This can be retribution income. You have to be careful, you have to be observant, there is potential for incoming money," said Sutikno.

For this reason, Sutikno asked the Education Office to immediately review and propose as material to make a legal umbrella regulate the determination of school canteen retribution rates.

"We have conveyed it to the inspectorate so that there is a legal umbrella. So that they do not violate the rules and comply with the provisions, so that retribution income can increase," he added.