The 2022 state budget focuses on six main policies, ranging from controlling COVID-19 to budgeting reformPadang, West Sumatra (ANTARA) - The Finance Ministry informed that the posture of the 2022 State Budget is designed to encourage the revival of the national economy and support structural reforms.
"The 2022 state budget focuses on six main policies, ranging from controlling COVID-19 to budgeting reform," Budget Executing Director of the Directorate General of Treasury at the Ministry of Finance, Tri Budhianto, stated during the 2022 budget implementation coordination meeting here, Tuesday.
The six main policies in the 2022 State Budget range from continuing COVID-19 handling, maintaining the sustainability of social protection programs and increasing superior human resources to continuing the development of technology infrastructure, improving the quality of fiscal decentralization, and continuing budgeting reforms.
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Budhianto said that the government realized several challenges existed in implementing the 2022 State Budget.
"One of them is the risk of uncertainty from the pandemic due to the continued emergence of new variants of COVID-19 as well as from the uncertainty of the global economy," he noted.
In addition, 2022 is the last year for the state budget deficit to be allowed to exceed three percent, he added.
"This is also a prerequisite for achieving fiscal consolidation in 2023. State revenues must continue to increase, better spending must be strengthened, and financing is expected to be innovative through prudent and sustainable debt management," Budhianto remarked.
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With these strategic considerations, the central and local governments must synergize through intensive and effective cooperation and communication.
"We hope it is able to produce a constructive economic policy mix in order to manifest equitable development for sustainable national and regional development towards a Golden Indonesia in 2045," he remarked.
In addition, through the enactment of Law Number 1 of 2022 on Central and Regional Financial Relations, this has become an important momentum for the central and regional governments to improve the quality of institutional relations while simultaneously improving the governance of state finances.
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Translator: Ikhwan Wahyudi, Resinta S
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