Jakarta, The Indonesia Post – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati stated that Indonesia was proven to be able to take advantage of the crisis, including the COVID-19 pandemic, as a momentum to carry out reforms.
“Indonesia has always been proven to be able to take advantage of the crisis as a momentum to carry out reforms,” said Sri Mulyani at the Open Session of the 46th Anniversary of the Academic Senate at Sebelas Maret University in Solo, Central Java, which was followed online in Jakarta, Friday.
This reform was carried out so that Indonesia was able to get out of the crisis situation with achievements so that when the crisis was over, Indonesia would be better prepared to meet sustainable development.
Sri Mulyani emphasized that reforms must go hand in hand with the recovery process, such as the structural reform agenda, which should not be delayed but instead continue to be strengthened to build the economic foundation.
Reforms were carried out to address fundamental issues such as strengthening the quality of human resources (HR), ease of doing business, downstreaming and economic transformation.
“We understand that iron is easy to shape when it’s still hot,” she said.
Not only structural reforms, during the pandemic the government has also continued fiscal reform efforts that have resulted in two important pieces of legislation, namely the amendment to the HKPD Law and the Tax Regulation Harmonization Law in 2021.
According to Sri Mulyani, these two pieces of legislation will strengthen state revenue policies and improve the quality of transfer spending to the regions, thereby strengthening decentralization and regional autonomy.
In addition, the government also maintains the health and reliability of the National Budget (APBN) which is an important instrument for development and protects Indonesia from the impact of a deeper crisis.
Efforts to maintain the health of the APBN are carried out so that this instrument can continue to be a solution in dealing with various development challenges and turmoil as well as the threat of crises that have the potential to occur in the future.
“Reforming the state budget and state finances is a necessity and a necessity,” she stressed.
This health is maintained through the reform of the State Budget which includes improving the quality and efficiency of central government spending, financing and managing the treasury and state assets.
These various efforts have now had implications for Indonesia, which is starting to experience recovery and is getting back on track towards development goals and ideals.
“We have to be optimistic that the storm will pass. Even the hardest of winters fears the spring. Every era has a challenge, every challenge has an answer and every era has a character,” said Sri Mulyani. (mhn/bbs)
Comment