KKP Gets A 2023 Budget Allocation Of IDR 6.29 Trillion

Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono. (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono reported that the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) received an effective budget allocation ceiling of IDR 6.29 trillion in 2023.

"Based on the letter of the Minister of Finance Number S1040/MK.02/2022 dated December 9, 2022 concerning the Automatic Adjustment of Expenditures of the Ministry of Institutions 2023, the KKP budget ceiling was subject to automatic adjustments amounting to Rp468.17 billion so that the effective KKP ceiling was Rp6.29 trillion," Trenggono said as quoted by Antara, Tuesday, January 17.

Initially, he said, the 2023 KKP budget allocation was IDR 6.76 trillion, consisting of pure rupiah of IDR 6.46 trillion, foreign grant loans of IDR 77.15 billion, non-tax state revenues of IDR 160.55 billion, and public service agencies (BLU) of IDR 72.47 billion.

With the ceiling received by the KKP, he said, he would distribute aid funds for the community through seven echelon units of the Marine and Fisheries Business Capital Management Institute (LPMUKP).

The Directorate General of Capture Fisheries will provide assistance to the community amounting to Rp128.5 billion, the Directorate General of Marine and Fishery Resources Supervision Rp5.5 billion, the Directorate General of Marine Space Management Rp11.8 billion, the Directorate General of Aquaculture Rp251.2 billion, the Directorate General of Strengthening Competitiveness for Marine and Fishery Products Rp53.5 billion.

Furthermore, the Fish Quarantine, Quality Control and Safety of Fishery Products IDR 12.9 billion, the Marine and Fisheries Research and Human Resources Agency IDR 24.7 billion, and the LPMUKP BLU IDR 5.5 billion.

Although exposed to automatic adjustments or automatic adjustments in budget management, Minister Trenggono believes this will not interfere with the implementation of priority activities for the community.

On the same occasion, Chairman of Commission IV of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Sudin, said that although the KKP was affected by automatic adjustments, his party asked the KKP to take strategic, careful, and committed not to change, cut the 2023 budget allocation which was in contact with the fisheries marine community or government assistance.