Defisit Anggaran di RAPBN-P 2015 Diupayakan di Bawah 2%
Indonesian Govt to Reduce Budget Deficit to Below 2 Percent
Reporter : Gatot Priyantono
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Jakarta (B2B) - Pemerintah mengupayakan defisit anggaran dalam RAPBN-Perubahan 2015 bisa di bawah dua persen terhadap PDB, setelah mendapatkan ruang fiskal dari penyesuaian harga BBM dan pemotongan belanja kementerian/lembaga.
"Nanti kita lihat, perkiraannya kita mau 'push' ke arah dua persen," kata Menteri Keuangan Bambang Brodjonegoro di Jakarta, Rabu (26/11).
Menkeu menambahkan defisit anggaran bisa turun dari perkiraan awal karena ada tambahan penerimaan dari berbagai upaya optimalisasi serta penghematan belanja yang tidak mendesak.
"Kalau di bawah dua persen, itu nanti, karena ada tambahan penerimaan (pajak)," katanya.
Pemerintah telah dipastikan mendapatkan dana tambahan pengalihan subsidi dari sektor konsumtif kepada kegiatan yang lebih produktif, untuk pembangunan dan pembenahan infrastruktur dasar serta perlindungan sosial, sebesar Rp110 triliun-Rp140 triliun.
Presiden Joko Widodo menargetkan penghematan belanja perjalanan dinas dan rapat yang tidak mendesak hingga Rp16 triliun, serta penambahan target penerimaan pajak hingga Rp600 triliun untuk tahun depan.
Pemerintah segera memasukkan tambahan alokasi dana belanja untuk keperluan produktif tersebut dalam RAPBN-Perubahan, yang akan diajukan untuk dilakukan pembahasan dengan parlemen pada awal Januari 2015.
Asumsi makro dalam APBN 2015, antara lain pertumbuhan ekonomi 5,8 persen, inflasi 4,4 persen, nilai tukar Rp11.900 per dolar AS, dan tingkat suku bunga SPN 3 bulan 6,0 persen.
Selain itu, asumsi ekonomi makro lainnya yang telah diputuskan adalah harga ICP minyak 105 dolar AS per barel, 'lifting' minyak 900 ribu barel per hari serta lifting gas 1.248 ribu barel per hari setara minyak.
Dari asumsi tersebut, pendapatan negara ditetapkan sebesar Rp1.793,6 triliun dan belanja negara sebesar Rp2.039,5 triliun, dengan defisit anggaran mencapai Rp245,9 triliun atau 2,21 persen terhadap PDB.
Jakarta (B2B) - The government aims to curtail the deficit in the 2015 revised budget to below two percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) after it has a fiscal room following fuel price adjustment and spending cuts.
"We will see the calculation. What we wish is to push it towards two percent," Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro stated here on Wednesday.
He noted that the budget deficit could drop below the initial estimate due to some additional income from various optimization efforts and cutting of non-urgent spendings.
The government is confident that it will get additional funds from the conversion of fuel subsidy to productive programs such as infrastructure development and social security worth between Rp110 trillion to Rp140 trillion.
In the meantime, President Joko Widodo has set a target of reducing official travel and meeting expenditures by Rp16 trillion and increasing tax revenue by up to Rp600 trillion in 2015.
The government will immediately include the additional income in the revised draft budget, which will be submitted for discussion in the parliament in January 2015.
The government has earlier set several macro-economic assumptions for the 2015 budget including economic growth rate at 5.8 percent, inflation at 4.4 percent, rupiah exchange rate at Rp11.9 thousand against the US dollar, and three-month rate of state bond at 6.0 percent.
The assumption for Indonesia Crude Price has been set at US$105 per barrel, while the assumptions for oil lifting are set at 900 thousand barrels per day and gas at 1.248 million barrels of oil equivalent per day.
Based on the assumptions, state revenues are set at Rp1,793.6 trillion while state expenditures at Rp2,039.5 trillion, thereby leaving a budget deficit of Rp245.9 trillion or 2.21 percent of the GDP.
