JAKARTA – Head of the Fiscal Policy Agency of the Ministry of Finance (Ministry of Finance) Febrio Kacaribu stated that the realization of this year’s National Economic Recovery Program (PEN) budget was going well, which was proven that until April 28, it reached Rp. 70.37 trillion.
“The realization of PEN until April has been going well, especially in the context of handling health,” said Febrio Kacaribu in an online event entitled Tanya BKF in Jakarta, Friday (13/5/2022).
Febrio said the realization of Rp70.37 trillion was 15.4 percent of the total budget ceiling for this year’s PEN Program which reached Rp455.62 trillion.
He said the main realization was maximum for the community protection sector, which reached Rp49.27 trillion or 31.8 percent of the Rp154.76 trillion ceiling.
The realization of this community protection budget includes the Family Hope Program (PKH) of IDR 14.15 trillion for 10 million Beneficiary Families (KPM), IDR 18.8 trillion of Food Cards for 18.8 million KPM, Direct Cash Assistance (BLT) of Cooking Oil IDR 5.8 trillion for 19.3 million KPM.
Then BLT Village Rp7.47 trillion for 6.13 million families, Cash Assistance for Street Vendors and Stalls (BT-PKLW) Rp1.7 trillion with a target of 1.76 million PKLW and fishermen and Pre-Employment Cards Rp1.4 trillion.
“Public protection is running according to schedule,” said Febrio Kacaribu.
In addition to protecting the public, the realization of the PEN Program which is also quite maximal is the strengthening of economic recovery which reached 5.2 percent of the ceiling of Rp. 178.32 trillion or Rp. 9.22 trillion.
The realization of strengthening economic recovery consists of tourism programs of Rp. 0.19 trillion, ICT of Rp. 0.44 trillion, MSME support in the form of interest subsidies and IJP of Rp. 8.02 trillion and tax incentives of Rp. 0.5 trillion.
Finally, for the health sector until April 28, 2022, the realization was only Rp. 11.87 trillion or 9.7 percent of the ceiling of Rp. 122.54 trillion.
The realization of the health sector is aimed at paying for patient claims of Rp. 8.1 trillion, incentives for health workers of Rp. 1.6 trillion, tax incentives for vaccines and medical devices of Rp. 1 trillion and Village Funds for handling Covid-19 of Rp. 1.1 trillion.
“We make sure the incentives that we have made sure we can run well,” said Febrio Kacaribu.
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