JAKARTA - The government through the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) ensures that the latest plan to provide social assistance (bansos) for the community will not take the allocation of subsidy funds in 2022 amounting to Rp502 trillion.
The Director General of Budget Budget of the Ministry of Finance, Isa Rachmatawar, emphasized this to the media crew in his office today.
"As for the budget, I make sure it is the social assistance budget. So the IDR 502 trillion subsidy budget already exists and will be used as it should (not be changed)," he said on Monday, August 29.
In detail, Isa explained that the social assistance budget this time was IDR 24.17 trillion. This figure itself consists of IDR 22 trillion from the central government and around IDR 2 trillion from the local government's General Allocation Fund (DAU) and Revenue Sharing Fund (DBH).
"Later, the Ministry of Home Affairs will issue instructions to the regions to use these funds to help the community face the problem of rising prices," he said.
According to VOI records, this year's allocation of social assistance funds has been increased by the government of Rp. 18.6 trillion last May with the approval of the DPR.
Isa had told the editors that the budget was prepared as a cushion for the community when facing an increase in the price of basic necessities.
"Yes, that is one of the possibilities for the additional use of the social assistance budget of Rp. 18.6 trillion (when the subsidized fuel price is adjusted)," said Isa when contacted by VOI on Friday, August 12.
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