BPS allocates majority of 2027 budget to regional working units
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Central Statistics Agency (BPS) is allocating the majority of its 2027 budget to regional working units (satker), with 77.18 per cent of the total approved 2027 budget ceiling allocated to BPS Regency/City offices.
BPS Principal Secretary Zulkipli, in a written statement received in Jakarta on Friday, explained that from the total 2027 budget ceiling of Rp6.48 trillion, Rp2.82 trillion or 43.51 per cent is allocated to the Statistical Information Provision and Service Programme (PPIS), which covers routine, periodic, and new activities.
Meanwhile, Rp3.66 trillion or 56.49 per cent is allocated to the Management Support Programme (Dukman), covering salaries, office operations, and non-operational office needs.
Based on expenditure type, the 2027 BPS budget is divided into operational expenditure of Rp3.57 trillion and non-operational expenditure of Rp2.91 trillion.
Operational expenditure includes employee salaries and office operations, while non-operational expenditure covers the financing of routine surveys supporting presidential priorities, national priority activities, and the Management Support Programme.
Several BPS activities supporting national priorities include the use of Big Data for Official Statistics, sectoral statistics development, inflation compilation, the development of ‘Statistical Love Villages’ (Desa Cinta Statistik), the provision of data for the 5 Targets of the Indonesia Gold Vision and 45 Main Development Indicators, as well as coordination for OECD accession in the field of statistics.
Although the budget has been approved, BPS stated that the ceiling is still insufficient to meet all programme implementation needs.
BPS has therefore proposed an additional budget for 2027 of Rp1,473.17 billion to ensure that national priority programmes and the provision of high-quality statistics continue to run optimally.
This additional budget consists of requirements for the PPIS Programme amounting to Rp926.30 billion and the Management Support Programme amounting to Rp546.87 billion.
The PPIS addition is required to finance the Integrated Economic Survey as a follow-up to the 2026 Economic Census, while the additional Management Support funds will be used for the construction and revitalisation of office buildings, including post-disaster office recovery in Aceh, North Sumatra, and Flores, East Nusa Tenggara.
Commission X of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI) approved the BPS RI budget ceiling for the 2027 fiscal year at Rp6.48 trillion after five rounds of discussion. Of this total budget, approximately Rp4.999 trillion or 77.18 per cent is allocated to BPS Regency/City offices.
BPS currently has 539 working units consisting of 502 BPS Regency/City offices, 34 BPS Provincial offices, and three central units.
Meanwhile, BPS Provincial offices across Indonesia received an allocation of 11.09 per cent or Rp718.45 billion, while central working units received an allocation of 11.73 per cent or Rp759.58 billion.
In a Hearing (RDP) with BPS on Wednesday (2/9), the Deputy Chairman of Commission X DPR RI, Lalu Hadrian Irfani, provided several notes to improve the quality of national statistics implementation, particularly in supporting data-based policy formulation.
“Several programmes that must be strengthened include the quality and capacity of BPS human resources at both central and regional levels, including technical competence, the use of technology, and statistical methodology, so that the implementation of statistical activities can be more effective, efficient, accurate, and optimal in supporting national development data needs,” said Lalu.