TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Spokesperson for the Minister of Defense Prabowo, Dahnil Anzar Simanjuntak, accused the party who leaked the draft Presidential Regulation regarding the modernization of the defense equipment system intentionally to spread hatred and political gossip.
“We regret that there are parties who leaked and used the document as a political tool to develop political hatred and political gossip which is full of nuances. political jealousy. Ministry of Defence We will investigate who is responsible for distributing the document so that it becomes confusing in the public,” said Dahnil in a written statement, Monday, May 31, 2021.
In the circulating draft of the Presidential Regulation concerning the Fulfillment of the Defense and Security Equipment Needs of the Ministry of Defense and the Indonesian National Armed Forces for 2020-2024, the Alpalhankam budget requirement for the 2020-2044 Strategic Plan reached USD 124 billion or equivalent to Rp. 1,773 trillion. The planned funding scheme comes from foreign loans.
The Ministry of Defense was reluctant to confirm the Rp1.7 quadrillion budget, but only confirmed the foreign loan scheme. “The funding needed is still under discussion and comes from foreign loans. The value will certainly not burden the APBN, in the sense that it will not reduce the allocation of other expenditures in the APBN which are national development priorities,” said Dahnil.
He said that the loans that are likely to be given by several countries are given in long tenors and very low interest and the payment process uses the Ministry of Defense budget allocation which is already allocated in the State Budget every year, assuming the Ministry of Defense’s budget allocation in the State Budget is consistent around 0.8 percent of GDP over the next 25 years.
“All of the above formulas are of course still in the process of being discussed with the relevant parties. Not a finished concept and ready to be implemented,” said Dahnil.
Dahnil said, modernization defense equipment It is very urgent considering that 60 percent of Alpalhankam is very old and outdated and worrisome. Therefore, the Ministry of Defense proposed a formula for modernizing Alpahankam through a reorganization of Alpalhankam spending and financing.
This reorganization of Alpalhankam spending and financing is planned to be carried out consistently and sustainably through the Alpalhankam spending mechanism, five strategic plans are spent in the first strategic plan, namely 2020-2024 so that Indonesia’s ideal defense posture can be achieved in 2025 or 2026, and the ideal posture will last until 2044.
“In analogy, this spending formula is like building a house. We finance the construction of a house within a certain time and then it becomes an ideal house, not build it in installments, starting from the window first, then there will be more money to build the door and so on,” said the spokesman. Prabowo that.
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