BPS Explains Reasons for Requesting Additional Rp 1.47 Trillion Budget for 2027 to Parliament
The Indonesian Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has requested an additional budget of Rp 1.47 trillion for its 2027 budget ceiling, as the Rp 6.48 trillion approved by the House of Representatives (DPR RI) is insufficient to meet its requirements. Consequently, the total budget desired by BPS is approximately Rp 7.95 trillion.
It is noted that Commission X of the DPR RI has approved the BPS budget ceiling for the 2027 fiscal year at Rp 6.48 trillion. This approval was granted after five rounds of discussions. From this total budget, 77.18 per cent, or approximately Rp 4.99 trillion, will be allocated to BPS offices at the Regency/City level.
Meanwhile, BPS provincial offices across Indonesia will receive an allocation of 11.09 per cent, or about Rp 718.45 billion, while central working units (satker) will receive 11.73 per cent, amounting to Rp 759.58 billion. BPS operates 539 working units throughout Indonesia, consisting of 502 regency/city offices, 34 provincial offices, and three central units.
“From the total 2027 budget ceiling, Rp 2.82 trillion (43.51 per cent) is allocated to the Statistical Information Provision and Service Programme (PPIS), covering routine, periodic, and new activities. Meanwhile, Rp 3.66 trillion (56.49 per cent) is allocated to the Management Support Programme (Dukman), which includes salaries, office operations, and non-operational costs,” said BPS Principal Secretary Zulkipli in a statement to journalists on Friday (4/9/2026).
When broken down by expenditure type, the BPS budget ceiling is divided into two groups: operational expenditure at Rp 3.57 trillion and non-operational expenditure at Rp 2.91 trillion. Operational expenditure covers employee salaries and office operations, while non-operational expenditure includes the financing of routine surveys supporting presidential priorities, national priority activities, and management support programme activities.
BPS activities that support national priorities include the utilisation of Big Data for official statistics, sectoral statistics development, inflation compilation, the development of ‘statistics-loving villages’, the provision of data for the five targets of the Indonesia Emas vision and 45 key development indicators, as well as coordination for OECD accession in the field of statistics.
Given the large number of working units and the extensive range of activities to be implemented, BPS stated that the approved budget ceiling is still insufficient to meet all requirements. Therefore, BPS has proposed an additional budget of Rp 1,473.17 billion for 2027 to ensure that the implementation of national priority programmes and the provision of high-quality statistics continue to run optimally.