Sri Mulyani Ensures 3 New Provinces in Papua Will Have a Special Budget for the 2024 Election

Minister of Finance of Indonesia, Sri Mulyani Indrawati guaranteed that the three new regions in Papua, specifically South Papua, Central Papua, and Papua Mountains would have an extraordinary spending plan for the 2024 General Election. Her party is right now evaluating their financial plan needs.

He said the Ministry of Finance along with the General Elections Commission (KPU) and the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) were exploring all arrangements connected with the 2024 General Election. The state financial officer expressed that there would be another spending plan for the three areas.

"For these 3 districts, there is an extraordinary article that is given in regards to the financial plan, since we see from the side of the APBD (Papua Provincial Budget) to be parted into 3 it is likewise not adequate for holding races," Sri Mulyani said at the DPR RI Building, Tuesday ( 5/7/2022).

In the interim, toward the start of June 2022, the public authority and the DPR and political race coordinators had settled on a 2024 political decision spending plan of Rp. 76.6 trillion. Nonetheless, Sri Mulyani said the spending plan would in any case be checked on considering the expansion of the quantity of areas from 34 to 37.

He has not had the option to compute how much the 2024 political decision financial plan that will be given to the three new areas for the 2024 political race, on the grounds that the wellspring of the spending plan will come from the 2023 or 2024 APBN.

"Be that as it may, this is all still in 2023 and 2024, (the arrangement) of the APBN isn't done. Likewise, the Rp 76 trillion is as yet being checked out, so we'll see everything first," he finished up.

Already, the financial plan for holding the 2024 Simultaneous Elections was anticipated to change in accordance with the extension of districts in Papua. This will influence the computation of seat portions in the DPR and DPD RI, discretionary areas, as well as the need to choose lead representatives and delegate lead representatives and structure DPRDs at the commonplace level.

"It is entirely conceivable (the 2024 political decision financial plan will change), in light of the fact that the arranging comes from a circumstance where there has been no change," said KPU director Hasyim Asy'ari at the KPU office, Jakarta, last Wednesday (28/6/2022).