Jakarta: The Indonesian Government continues to optimize the State Budget and fiscal policy as key to achieve economic recovery, Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati has said.
"For the Central Government, the expenditure has reached Rp94.7 trillion or 32.4 percent higher compared to the last year’s expenditure of Rp71.5 trillion. This is what we call the spending driving force in January," the Minister said in a virtual press conference on Tuesday, as quoted by the Cabinet Secretariat's website.
According to Sri Mulyani, the acceleration of the State Budget on the expenditure plays an important role in January this year, adding that positive growth on the spending side shows that the economic recovery program is running.
The Minister also said that the total realization of the national expenditures as of 31 January 2021, amounted to Rp145.8 trillion, growing 4.2 percent from the same period last year.
Former managing director of the World Bank also pointed out that the realization of state revenue as of January 2021 was Rp100.1 trillion.
According to her, albeit still contracting, the revenue growth in January 2021 is better than that of previous month, adding that the figure is not much different from the realization of the same period in 2020 amounting to 105.1 trillion.
Sri Mulyani further said that the state budget deficit as ofJanuary 2021 was Rp45.7 trillion with financing of Rp165.9 trillion.
In January last year before the covid-19 pandemic, the state budget deficit stood at Rp34.8 trillion.
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