Bappenas: Political Party Funding Governance Reform Included in National Long-Term Development Plan
The strengthening of governance for political party financial assistance (banpol) has become part of the government’s democratic reform agenda. Director of Ideology, Nationality, Politics, and Democracy at the Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas), Nuzula Anggreini, stated that strengthening political party governance, including party financial assistance, has been incorporated into the 2025-2045 National Long-Term Development Plan (RPJPN). In the 2025-2029 National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN), this agenda forms part of the 7th National Priority, namely political, legal, and bureaucratic reform as well as strengthening corruption prevention.
According to Nuzula, the governance of political party financial assistance is not merely an administrative matter but must uphold the principles of transparency, accountability, measurability, and public oversight. “If you look at the RPJP, we want to have an income like a developed country and so on. But if the foundation of democracy is not strong, it will be very difficult to achieve that,” Nuzula said during an online discussion on Friday, July 3, 2026.
In the same forum, the Executive Director of Perludem, Heroik Mutaqin Pratama, said digitalisation is necessary to address the complicated manual reporting system for party financial assistance. “As well as to encourage political party transparency,” Heroik said during the discussion.
According to him, the current mechanism for party financial assistance places more emphasis on fulfilling administrative requirements rather than enhancing transparency. “The reporting of political party financial assistance is only oriented towards minimum compliance and a high administrative burden compared to transparency,” he said.
Heroik identified three main issues with the current system. First, the human resource capacity within each political party is uneven when it comes to compiling financial reports. Second, the overly administrative approach means that the assessment of fund usage performance is neglected. Third, the fragmented reporting process makes real-time supervision difficult.
Technically, the proposed E-Banpol system is built on three main layers. The first is transaction and compliance to ensure that submissions, usage, and audits proceed according to regulations. The second is interoperability, allowing data exchange between institutions in one integrated system. The third layer is transparency and supervision through a digital dashboard that can be accessed by the public in stages. “The financial balance sheet of political parties will no longer be a rigid secret, but rather information that can be accounted for openly,” Heroik stated.