JAKARTA - Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya said that the discussion on cutting ministers' salaries would still be discussed at a meeting to be held in the next few days.
The Secretary of the Cabinet said that various concepts related to the discourse would still be discussed further.
"So, the point is that these concepts will be tightened in the next few days," he said, quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, April 7.
He emphasized that there was no decision yet regarding the plan to cut the ministers' salaries.
"Later we will see. There is no decision yet," said Teddy.
Teddy then directed the journalists to ask the party who first raised the discourse.
"Ask who delivered, yesterday who was it?" said Teddy.
As previously reported, Minister of Finance Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa did not mind the discussion of cutting ministers' salaries. However, he is still waiting for a formal decision from President Prabowo Subianto.
"If (salary cuts) the DPR I don't know. If the minister is okay, we'll see what the President's policy is like," said Purbaya at the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Jakarta, Monday (6/4).
On that occasion, Purbaya estimated the amount of the minister's salary cut to be around 25 percent.
"I think it's 25 percent," he said.
On a different occasion, Purbaya said his party would set the percentage of direct cuts in the ministry and agency budget as a step to increase the efficiency of the State Budget (APBN) amid rising global economic uncertainty due to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.
"I asked the ministry to cut it themselves, but if they were asked like that they didn't want to cut it, they raised everything. If I can determine it, I will cut it by a certain percentage, then they will adjust it," said Purbaya at the Presidential Palace complex, Jakarta, Thursday (19/3).
Purbaya explained that the Ministry of Finance would comb through the components of spending that were considered to be temporarily postponed. The focus on efficiency targets programs that do not have a significant impact or have a slow acceleration on national economic growth.
In addition to efficiency at the program level, the discourse on cutting the salaries of ministers and deputy ministers also emerged as part of state budget savings. Purbaya expressed his support for the proposal as a concrete step of solidarity between state officials in saving spending.
"Agree. Oh that's good. If it's good," said the Minister of Finance in response to a question about the plan to cut the salaries of officials at the ministerial level.
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