Tempo Eksplainer: Retret Kepala Daerah di Tengah Kebijakan Pemangkasan Anggaran
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00:00President Prabowo Subianto appointed 33 governors with 33 deputies, 363 mayors and 362 mayors and 85 mayors and 85 mayors.
00:18This interview was held at the state palace near Wisma Negara.
00:22Prabowo said to the mayors and deputies that they will be involved in a retreat held at Akmil Magelang on February 21-28, 2025.
00:34For the event, the Ministry of Home Affairs as the organizer of the retreat issued a letter of recommendation on the orientation of leadership for mayors and deputies of mayors in 2025.
00:44The document states that there are two sources of retreat funding.
00:47First, a list of budgetary activities or DIPA of the Human Resources Development Fund of the State Palace in 2025.
00:54Second, state funds that cover accommodation and consumption, transportation, clothing and medicine.
01:01Recently, the State Palace canceled the cost-sharing and stated that the full retreat funding came from the Ministry of Home Affairs.
01:09The mayors went to Magelang by their own transportation without the help of the State Command.
01:15Governor of West Nusa Tenggara, Muhammad Iqbal, for example, stated that the transportation management during the training and departure of the retreat was managed by the mayors.
01:24He said he left by commercial plane to Magelang.
01:27However, Iqbal said that the accommodation during the retreat in Magelang was taken care of by the central government.
01:32On a separate occasion, Governor of West Java, Didi Mulyadi, said he would leave with 26 mayors and mayors of the entire West Java.
01:43They will leave for Magelang using a plane owned by the Air Force.
01:47Didi said the accommodation was a TNI-AU aid for the head of the West Java region who had just been appointed.
01:54According to the report, the Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency, or FITRA, stated that the retreat agenda in Magelang for 8 days was not in line with the spirit of the government.
02:08National FITRA Research Secretary Manager, Badiul Hadi, said that there needs to be transparency on the purpose of the retreat so that it is not just a ceremonial agenda.
02:17In addition, Badiul said, the estimated cost of the retreat was 13.2 billion rupiah, which was collected from the State Budget through the State Budget.
02:28The Budget Transparency Policy was issued by Prabowo by issuing an instruction to President No. 1 in 2025 on the efficiency of spending in the implementation of the State Budget and State Budget in 2025 on January 22, 2025.
02:41Through the regulation, Prabowo targets the efficiency of the budget of the Ministry and Institutes up to 306.69 trillion rupiah.
02:48Transparency to the region was also cut by 50.5 trillion rupiah.
02:55Badiul said the total budget for the 505 retreats per region was very large and could be converted to other useful programs.
03:02In fact, this figure is outside the transport budget that each region head is responsible for.
03:07In addition to budget spending, Badiul said that this retreat model tends to use a top-down approach and aims at centralizing policy.
03:15According to him, regional governments are forced to carry out national priority programs without considering specific needs in each region.
03:26The Executive Director of the Regional Autonomy Monitoring Committee, Herman N. Suparman, said the same thing.
03:32He stated that the retreat was backed by the spirit of efficiency generated by Prabowo.
03:37Herman pointed out that the budget cut for regional transfers is already very heavy, plus regional governments contribute to the cost of travel to Manggalang.
03:49There was also a Deputy Minister of the Interior, Bima Arya Sugiarto, who said that the retreat would be financed by the State Budget allocated to the State Budget.
03:56However, other needs, such as transportation tickets and accommodation costs, will use the funds of each State Budget.
04:02Bima said that the costs arising outside the training and retreat agenda will indeed be borne by the governments of each region.