As Of November 2022, Realization Of PUPR Infrastructure Spending Reaches 69.4 Percent

JAKARTA – The Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) continues its work program through spending on PUPR infrastructure, such as the construction and maintenance of dams, irrigation, roads, bridges, sanitation, drinking water systems, area planning, infrastructure in strategic tourism areas, MBR houses in order to increase competitiveness as well as support the National Economic Recovery (PEN) due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

"Realization of the PUPR Ministry's budget ceiling as of November 26, 2022, at 18.00 WIT amounted to IDR 84.3 trillion or 69.4 percent of the total ceiling of IDR 121.40 trillion with a physical realization of 75 percent," PUPR Minister Basuki Hadimuljono said in a written statement, Monday, November 28th.

Basuki said, to support post-Covid-19 economic recovery, the PUPR Ministry is also continuing the Cash Work Intensive Program (PKT) in the form of infrastructure development that involves the community or local residents as development actors.

"For the Cash Labor Intensive Program, the current financial realization is IDR 12.97 trillion or 85.8 percent of the total budget ceiling of IDR 15.11 trillion and absorbs a workforce of 661,000 people or 82.8 percent of the target of 798,000 people," said Minister Basuki.

The PUPR Ministry's Cash Work-Intensive Program is implemented through infrastructure development involving local communities/citizens as development actors, especially small-scale infrastructure or simple jobs that do not require technology.

This program aims to distribute funds to villages, maintain people's purchasing power and absorb labor.

Basuki said, the PUPR Ministry had set a prognosis plan for the absorption of the 2022 Fiscal Year at 96.04 percent.

"The steps taken towards the end of the 2022 Fiscal Year are allocating a budget that has the potential not to be absorbed to be diverted, among others, to handling disasters, optimizing the use of the budget to accelerate the completion of infrastructure with high progress/completion by the end of 2022," said Minister Basuki.

The PUPR Ministry, said Basuki, will refer to the Circular of the Head of LKPP No. 16 of 2022 concerning Explanation on the Implementation of the Procurement of Goods/Services Affected by the Increase in the Price of Fuel Oil and/or Asphalt in the 2022 Fiscal Year, in the context of price adjustments and adjustments to the value of contracts affected by the increase in fuel prices.