Reporter: Siti Masitoh | Editor: Wahyu T. Rahmawati

KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. The Ministry of Finance has prepared a state budget of IDR 3,061.2 trillion next year. This spending is down 2.13% from this year's state spending of IDR 3,106.4 trillion in Presidential Regulation (Perpres) 98/2022.

Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati said the government would maximize the budget to face global uncertainty next year and also to improve human resources (HR).

Apart from that, this spending will also be focused on National Strategic Projects (PSN), infrastructure, to support economic transformation and development as well as the green economy, including the development of the National Capital City (IKN) of the archipelago.

"We will also continue to strengthen and expand the social safety net by improving and updating poverty data on vulnerable communities through the Socio-Economic Registration (Regsosek)," he said at the handover ceremony of the Budget Implementation Form and Transfer Allocation List Book to the Regions at the State Palace, Jakarta, Thursday (1/12).

Apart from that, services to the community will also continue to be improved, with reforms in the bureaucracy and reforms in Ministries/Institutions.

Sri Mulyani detailed that spending in the education and health sectors received the largest allocation in the 2023 APBN. She said that the government allocated IDR 612.2 trillion for education spending, consisting of IDR 237.1 trillion government spending, IDR 305.6 trillion transfers to regions, and financing of IDR 69.5 trillion.

Meanwhile, health spending reached IDR 178.7 trillion, consisting of IDR 118.7 trillion central government spending and IDR 60 trillion transfers to regions.

"Spending on education and health is the expenditure that continues to have the largest allocation in order to build superior and productive human resources," said the Minister of Finance.

The government has also allocated a social protection budget of IDR 476 trillion, a food security budget of IDR 104.2 trillion, and a budget of IDR 341.3 which is intended for subsidies, compensation and spending in the energy sector.

Then, spending in the defense and security sector is allocated at IDR 316.9 trillion, while infrastructure spending is budgeted at IDR 392.1 trillion.

Meanwhile, the state revenue target set by the government in the 2023 APBN is IDR 2,463 trillion. Thus, there is a budget deficit of IDR 598.2 trillion or 2.84% of gross domestic product (GDP).

Quoted from Kontan.co.id

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