Eight Asta Cita Missions Prabowo - Gibran Couples Side To Rich People

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JAKARTA Prabowo Subianto's pair Gibran Rakabuming Raka immediately gaspol to introduce their vision and mission if they win the 2024 presidential election (Pilpres). Prabowo Gibran who received serial number 2 has a vision Together Indonesia Advances, Towards Indonesia Gold 2045 and eight missions named Asta Cita.

The eight Asta Cita missions of the Prabowo Gibran pair are as follows.

1. Strengthening the ideology of Pancasila, democracy, and Human Rights. 2. Improve quality employment, encouraging entrepreneurship, developing creative industries, and continuing infrastructure development. 3. Continuing downstream and industrialization to increase added value in the country. 4. Strengthening political reform, law and bureaucracy as well as strengthening the prevention and eradication of corruption and drugs. 5. Establishing the country's security defense system and encouraging the nation's independence through food self-sufficiency, energy, water, creative economy, green economy and blue economy. 6. Strengthening the development of Human Resources (HR), science, education, education, health, sports achievements, gender equality, as well as strengthening the role of women, youth, and people with disabilities. 7. Building from villages and from below for equitable economics and poverty eradication. 8. Strengthening the harmony of life with environment, nature, and culture as well as increasing inter-religious tolerance to achieve a just and prosperous society.

In addition, Prabowo-Gibran also has eight of the best rapid results programs, namely:

1. Providing free lunch and milk at schools and Islamic boarding schools, as well as nutrition assistance for children under five and pregnant women.2. Print and increasing productivity of agricultural land with village, regional and national food barns. 3. Continuate and add social welfare card programs as well as business cards to eliminate absolute poverty. 4. Continuing village infrastructure development, Direct Cash Assistance (BLT) and providing low-cost houses for both those in need. 5. Organizing free health checks, reducing TBC cases 50 percent in five years and building quality complete hospitals in Kabupaten.6. Building superior schools integrated in each district, and improving schools that need renovation. 7. Increase the salaries of ASN (mainly teachers, lecturers, and health workers) TNI/Polri and state officials.8. Establishing the State Revenue Agency and increasing the ratio of state revenue to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 23 percent.

Furthermore, this couple has 17 priority programs:

1. Achieving food, energy, and water self-sufficiency.2. Political reform, law and bureaucracy. 3. Poverty eradication.4. Guarantee the availability of health services for all Indonesian people. Improvement of BPJS Health and drug supply for the people.5. Strengthening of state defense and security and maintenance of conducive international relations.6. Ensuring environmental conservation.7. Guarantees cheap homes and sanitation for rural communities and the people in need.8. Continuing downstream and industrialization based on Natural Resources (SDA) is included in the vicinity of maritime to open the widest possible employment opportunities in realizing economic justice. 9. Improvement of state revenue systems.10. Prevention and eradication of corruption.11. Prevention and eradication of drugs.12. Strengthening education, science, and technology as well as digitization.13. Strengthening gender equality and protection of women's rights, children, as well as persons with disabilities.14. Guaranteeing the availability of fertilizers, seeds, and pesticides directly to farmers.15. Continuing economic equity, strengthening of MSMEs and development of the Capital City of the Archipelago (IKN).16. Ensuring inter-religious harmony, freedom of worship and treatment of houses of worship.17. Cultural arts preservation, improvement of creative economy, and improvement of sports achievements.

Asta Cita Has Passed Comprehensive Calculations

Member of TKN Prabowo Gibran, Eddy Soeparno revealed, Asta Cita Mission Vision has been prepared comprehensively and careful calculations, ranging from planning to funding.

"For example, Mr. Prabowo plans for Indonesia to be free of stunting by providing free milk and lunch at school. Anyone questions where the money comes from? We have calculated this policy starting from planning, distribution on target, to funding needed," he said, Saturday, November 18.

The Secretary General of PAN also explained that one of Prabowo's plans Gibran is to separate institutions that collect state revenues and spend funds. Therefore, an institution will be formed by the State Revenue Agency.

The State Revenue Agency was formed with a focus on maximizing state revenues. Where did it come from? For example by increasing the tax ratio. The fact is that at this time Tax Ratio Indonesia is the lowest, only 9.3 percent," he said.

According to Eddy, based on existing policy track records, the tax ratio can increase with strict rules of between 0.5-0.6 percent per year. If the tax ratio increase is only 1 percent, it means that state revenue will increase by Rp210 trillion.

Efforts to increase the tax ratio can be done by increasing supervision, automation and digitizing the system. This is Asta Cita Prabowo Gibran which is compiled comprehensively from upstream to downstream. From the vision and mission to the funding scheme. Everything is calculated and calculated well," he explained.

Pratama-Kreston Tax Research Institute (TRI) Executive Director, Prianto Budi Saptono assessed that Prabowo Gibran's promise to increase the taxless income limit (PTKP) and reduce income tax rates (PPh) Article 21 to increase the tax ratio for gross domestic product (GDP) has the potential to weaken the tax ratio, which is currently in the range of nine percent even though it was at the level of 10.39 percent in 2022 or the highest for the last seven years.

He revealed that the PPh 21 performance so far is still very good, as reflected in the realization of the tax revenue performance for the January-September 2023 period which was announced by the Ministry of Finance a few days ago. With 11.2 percent contribution to total revenues, PPh 21 deposits still grew 17.2 percent, slightly down from the same period last year 21.4 percent.

PPh 21 is still growing double digits. If PTKP goes up and the PPh 21 rate goes down, there is a potential for a decrease in PPh 21 acceptance, and if you look at the PPh 21 factor alone, the tax ratio will automatically have the potential to drop," said Prianto.

He explained that PPh 21 is actually also more focused on limited employee income. Thus, he considers that the contribution of PTKP policies to increase and the PPh 21 rate to fall will not be significant for the increase in tax ratio.

So far, according to him, the government has tried various policies to increase the tax ratio by increasing PTKP, changing VAT rates and VAT rates, tax amnesty, PPS, to sunset policy. However, in reality, the tax ratio is still decreasing.

"So, the aspect that affects the tax ratio focuses on tax compliance. Tax compliance itself is a complex matter," added Prianto.

The Increase In PTKP Profits High Income Groups

The Research Manager of the Center for Indonesia Taxation Analysis, Fajry Akbar stated that raising the PTKP limit and lowering the PPh rate would actually reduce the tax ratio. This is because the increase in PTKP is not only enjoyed by low-income groups but also high-income groups.

If you say this policy plan is progressive or a small pro-people, it's not appropriate. The rich are even the most profitable. Not to mention if we enter the regional aspect, some regions have low UMR. If it is raised again, it's a pity for areas where the UMR is small, it could lose a lot of acceptance," he explained.

He further explained that the PPh21 tariff is multilayer, where the amount of the tariff depends on the level of income. Meanwhile, in the vision, mission, and work program Prabowo-Gibran, the related details are also not clearly stated. The tax ratio target was not mentioned in the document, because it only stated that it would raise it.

So, which tariff layer do you want to lower? The policy direction in vision and mission is not clear. And Prabowo-Gibran's vision and mission is not in line with what the Jokowi government has done, namely wanting to increase the contribution of PPh 21, "said Fajry.

Meanwhile, Professor of the Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Dwi Andreas, considers that food self-sufficiency has only been a rhetoric played by potential leaders. Although it does not rule out that Indonesia is self-sufficient in rice, food self-sufficiency is difficult to achieve because the consumption of wheat in the community is quite high.

"When we talk about food self-sufficiency, it's not self-sufficiency. For what reason? 28 percent of our basic food needs are already wheat. We import 100 percent of our Wheat," he said.

Head of INDEF's Macroeconomics and Finance Division, Rizal Taufikurahman stated that imports are still valid and can be done even though Indonesia is self-sufficient in food, with a small number of notes and the aim is only for stock.

He highlighted Prabowo's stalled food estate program. According to him, the food barn program is problematic due to mismatch in management. The agricultural sector that is more appropriate to be given to farmers is actually handed over to the company.

Is Prabowo 'Gibran wants food to be industrialized like a food estate? Because agriculture cannot be modeled like that, agriculture must be given to farmers because he knows exactly. It can't be given to the corporate, "concluded Rizal.