The State Budget Has Expenditured IDR 765 Trillion, This Is The Benefit For The People

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JAKARTA - The government through the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) reports that the realization of APBN spending until April 2023 is IDR 765.8 trillion. Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani said that the community had directly felt the benefits of the funds.

"Bulanja APBN is distributed through ministries/agencies (K/L) and non-KL, including for the distribution of subsidies and pension benefits," he said in a press release quoted on Wednesday, May 24.

According to explaining, for ministries/agencies, the government has provided direct benefits to 9.9 million Beneficiary Families (KPM) of the Family Hope Program (PKH), 18.2 million KPMs of basic food cards and 96.7 million people receiving National Health Insurance (JKN) paid their premium contributions by the government.

"In addition, the government also provides direct benefits in the form of the Indonesia Smart Program (PIP), college KIP, and also school operations costs for schools under the Ministry of Religion," he said.

The Minister of Finance explained that other support was also provided by the government for stimulant assistance for disaster housing and building infrastructure that could be enjoyed by the community, such as educational facilities and infrastructure, pipeline expansion for drinking water, road repairs and bridges, construction of railroads, airports and ports with a nominal value of IDR 34.4 trillion.

Meanwhile, for farmers, the government provides direct assistance in the form of seeds, mulsa, organic fertilizer, livestock assistance, agricultural tools and machinery, to assistance in the form of fish, crab, and shrimp seeds with a nominal value of Rp. 12.5 billion.

Not only that, the state treasurer also said that the general public also received a direct impact from the state budget in the form of electricity subsidies of Rp. 15.3 trillion for 39.2 million customers, fuel subsidies of Rp. 5.2 trillion with compensation of Rp. 33.8 trillion, and LPG gas subsidies of 3 kg of Rp. 21.6 trillion.

Meanwhile, pre-work cards can be enjoyed by around 182,000 participants with a benefit value of IDR 804.2 billion, housing subsidies of IDR 204.1 billion for 50,3000 units. Meanwhile, subsidies in the health sector reached IDR 42.3 trillion, an increase of 13.1 percent compared to the previous year.

"As of April, Rp. 58.1 trillion has been paid for retirement, which is 5.1 percent. From the Taspen side, it is Rp. 50.8 trillion and Asabri is Rp. 7.3 trillion," he said.

Other government spending, continued the Minister of Finance, is distributed for the construction and maintenance of national roads and regional roads in the form of toll roads and non-toll roads, with the largest budget allocated for Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Papua, Bali and Nusa Tenggara. The total is IDR 203.5 trillion.

"This will certainly improve the quality of economic activity and we hope it will also increase productivity from these regions," closed the Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani.