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        "id": 1953752,
        "msgid": "investment-target-rises-commission-xii-requests-increased-budget-for-bkpm-1788277919",
        "date": "2026-09-01 21:23:30",
        "title": "Investment Target Rises, Commission XII Requests Increased Budget for BKPM",
        "author": " ",
        "source": "GALERT",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Economy",
        "summary": "A member of Commission XII of the Indonesian House of Representatives has urged the government to increase the budget for the Ministry of Investment and Downstreaming\/BKPM for the 2027 fiscal year. The request aims to support a national investment target of Rp 2,927 trillion and address the imbalance between growing workloads and shrinking budget allocations.",
        "content": "<p>JAKARTA \u2014 Member of Commission XII of the DPR, Ratna Juwita, has\nurged the government to increase the budget allocation for the Ministry\nof Investment and Downstreaming\/BKPM for the 2027 Fiscal Year. This step\nis considered essential to balance the surge in national investment\ntargets, which are set to reach Rp 2,927 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>She highlighted the disparity between the ministry\u2019s expanding\nworkload and a budget ceiling that has actually shrunk to approximately\nRp 974 billion from a previous Rp 1.2 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Investment and Downstreaming has been assigned such\na massive task and serves as one of the spearheads for increasing the\ncountry\u2019s economic growth. Naturally, it must be provided with a\nproportional budget allocation,\u201d said Ratna following a Technical\nDeepening Hearing for the 2027 RKA-K\/L at the Nusantara I Building,\nSenayan, Jakarta, on Tuesday (1\/9\/2026), as reported in a written\nstatement.<\/p>\n<p>The PKB Fraction politician emphasised that Commission XII will fight\nto ensure the ministry\u2019s budget is restored to at least Rp 1.2 trillion\nthrough oversight within the DPR RI Budget Committee (Banggar).<\/p>\n<p>Beyond budget issues, Ratna criticised the quality of national\ndownstreaming realisation. Although downstreaming investment in the\nfirst semester of 2026 exceeded Rp 300.1 trillion, with 75% of it spread\noutside Java, the structure is deemed to be still too dominated by\nForeign Direct Investment (FDI) and the mineral and coal (minerba)\nsectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe request the Ministry of Investment to spread downstreaming to\nother sectors such as plantations and marine resources. Future\ninvestment reports must also present a comparable ratio of local labour\nabsorption so that performance can be measured,\u201d said the legislator\nfrom the East Java IX constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, she addressed the planned development of the Online Single\nSubmission (OSS) system based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Ratna\nencouraged the Ministry of Investment to collaborate with the National\nResearch and Innovation Agency (BRIN) to improve cost efficiency rather\nthan using external vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Cooperation with local talent is believed to produce a licensing\nsystem that is more user-friendly for MSMEs in the regions.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/investment-target-rises-commission-xii-requests-increased-budget-for-bkpm-1788277919",
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