President Prabowo Subianto reminded members of the 2024-2029 Red and White Cabinet not to make strange policies and drain the State Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBN).
Prabowo emphasized this when chairing the first Plenary Meeting of the Red and White Cabinet at the State Palace, Jakarta, Wednesday (23/10/20204).
In fact, the President reminded members of his cabinet not to make things up to carry out comparative studies of Scouts to other countries.
“We must set an example of our focus on developing the people’s welfare economy inwards. Don’t make up comparative studies of Scout learning to other countries,” said Prabowo at the first Cabinet Plenary Meeting at the State Palace, Jakarta, Wednesday (23/10/2024).
Prabowo also reminded ministers to review APBN allocations, DIPA (Budget Implementation List), and even asked ministers to reduce overseas travel.
“I ask the Minister of Finance, all Coordinating Ministers, all ministers to review the allocation of the APBN, DIPA, I ask for details of ceremonial activities, too many seminars, workshops, conferences and foreign trips, please reduce them,” Prabowo ordered his cabinet members.
He also realized that even though his cabinet was large, reaching 48 ministers, according to him this was because Indonesia was a large and democratic nation, not authoritarian.
“The number of members of our cabinet is 48 ministers and there are also strategic bodies, this is indeed more than the previous government, I realize this number is considered quite large, but because we are a large nation, the fourth largest population, the same area as Western Europe, consisting of 27 European countries “Managing Europe requires 27 Ministers of Finance, our Minister of Home Affairs is as big as Europe,” he said.
“We also choose democratic politics, if we were an authoritarian country we might just run with a small population. But the important thing is that we work efficiently and we don’t work as we please,” he said.