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View all search resultsHome Minister Tito Karnavian is urging village heads and local leaders to speed up their budget proposals to immediately get transfers from the central government and reallocate spending to prioritize the mitigation of COVID-19.
The Finance Ministry will temporarily stop the disbursement of village funds to some villages in Konawe regency, Southeast Sulawesi, in response to irregularities found in the application for and use of the funds.
There are an alleged 34 problematic villages, comprising three fictitious villages (uninhabited villages) and 31 villages whose certificates of formation were backdated to make them eligible to receive annual village funds.
During spring last year, I met with Budiman Sudjatmiko, a politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), on his visit to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Then he proudly declared the government’s plan to provide village funds of Rp 1 billion (US$70,921), which he said marked a significant political shift from central to local government.
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