Imipas Minister Proposes Additional Rp 5.23 Trillion for Personnel and Non-Operational Spending
House Commission XIII of the Indonesian Parliament held a working meeting with Minister of Immigration and Corrections Agus Andrianto to discuss the ministry’s budget. During the meeting, which ran into the evening, Minister Agus proposed an additional budget of Rp 5.23 trillion.
He initially revealed that the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections has been allocated an indicative ceiling that has continued to rise since 2025. This year, he said, his ministry even received an indicative ceiling of up to Rp 20,122,725,861,000.
“Despite the indicative ceiling for 2027 experiencing an increase compared to 2026, the budget requirements of the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections are still not fully accommodated,” Minister Agus stated during the working meeting at House Commission XIII in Senayan, Jakarta, on Wednesday (17/6/2026).
Minister Agus further detailed the needs not yet met by the 2027 indicative ceiling. He cited national priority programmes and 2026 government spending that require accommodation.
“This condition is influenced by the need for institutional strengthening following the ministry’s establishment, the implementation of national priority programmes, priority programmes, and the acceleration programmes of the Minister of Immigration and Corrections, the implementation of the new Criminal Code, improving the quality of public services, strengthening border security, addressing prison overcrowding, as well as operational needs affected by budget efficiency policies and adjustments to government spending in 2026,” he said.
On that basis, he proposed an additional budget. “Therefore, based on the minutes of a tripartite meeting between the Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas), the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections, an additional budget proposal to the 2027 indicative ceiling of Rp 5,235,441,295,000 has been agreed to meet the spending needs for essential duties and functions across five main units that remain unfulfilled,” he added.
He then broke down the additional budget required by his ministry:
Personnel Expenditure: Rp 1,087,153,854,000
Operational Expenditure: Rp 780,451,593,000
Expenditure for Support of Duty Implementation: Rp 197,885,057,000
Non-Operational Expenditure for Management Support Programme: Rp 417,353,308,000
Capital Expenditure: Rp 1,381,727,446,000
Non-Operational Expenditure for Law Enforcement and Legal Services Programme: Rp 1,365,370,207,000
National Priorities: Rp 5,499,830,000