Acting Governor Of DKI Calls School Canteen Retribution Still Under Study

Acting Governor Of DKI Teguh Setyabudi

Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Teguh Setyabudi emphasized that the DKI Provincial Government will still review more in the discourse of withdrawal of levies in public school canteens in Jakarta.

Teguh said his subordinates had not yet made an official report regarding the retribution scheme in the school canteen. The discourse only appeared in the discussion of the preparation of the 2025 APBD with the DKI Jakarta DPRD.

"Yesterday, the discourse that had appeared when we discussed the RAPB certainly needed a more careful study," Teguh said when met in the Monas area, Central Jakarta, Friday, November 22.

Teguh said that he would instruct the Regional Secretary of DKI Jakarta, the Regional Financial Management Agency, and the Regional Asset Management Agency to conduct a careful study of the retribution.

"Later we will leave it to the Secretary of State, Head of BPKAD, to further study how the matter of the canteen levy is," he said.

Previously, the Acting Head of the DKI Jakarta Education Office, Purwosusilo, said that the DKI Provincial Government would withdraw 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, some time ago.

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).

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

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Government should be able to see the potential of regional income from levies, considering that there are rental fees withdrawn by schools from these canteens.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