Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta Ahmad Riza Patria give an explanation of savings budget IDR 12.9 trillion. The deposited funds are the concern of the Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian at the end of 2021.
Riza said that the DKI Provincial Government’s budget had not been fully absorbed. However, he promised his party would complete the absorption of the budget as well as possible.
“In principle, we will try our best. For DKI Jakarta, God willing, we can achieve 91 percent more budget absorption,” Riza told reporters in Pluit, North Jakarta, Sunday (26/12).
Riza admitted that DKI would not reach 100 percent of budget absorption due to the pandemic. However, the budget absorption target is 91 percent better than last year’s absorption at 86 percent.
The Gerindra Party politician said that the budget was settling because it was in the process of completing the program. He said the DKI Provincial Government did not want to be careless in managing the budget.
“It takes a long, careful process, sometimes the auction has to be repeated and so on, sometimes the process is canceled, repeated again, and so on,” said Riza.
Previously, Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian summoned ten local governments that had budget deposits. Tito asked why the trillions of rupiah was still being kept in the bank until the end of the year.
Those areas are DKI Jakarta (Rp 12,953 trillion), Aceh (Rp 4.426 trillion), Papua (Rp 3.829 trillion), East Java (Rp 2.751 trillion), West Java (Rp 2.566 trillion), East Kalimantan. (Rp2.070 trillion), West Papua (Rp1.947 trillion), Riau (Rp1.426 trillion), North Sumatra (Rp1.128 trillion), and Central Java (Rp1.028 trillion).
“We ask fellow governors to immediately hold a coordination meeting on accelerating spending, then also clarify local government fund savings in regencies/cities in the province,” Tito said in a written statement, Wednesday (12/22).
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