Dasco: Home allowances RP. 50 million to October 2025, 5 years used

Jakarta – Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian Parliament Sufmi Dasco Ahmad opens votes in response to the polemic of a member house allowance of RP 50 million per month. Dasco emphasized that the allowance was only given up to one year alias until October 2025. “That the housing allowance when the DPR members were inaugurated in October 2024, members of the DPR did not receive housing facilities in Kalibata,” Dasco said on the parliament complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday (8/26/2025). “It is therefore deemed necessary to then provide house facilities in the form of funds for domestic contracts,” he continued. Browse to continue the content, Dasco confirmed that the RP 50 million home allowance per month was only given from October 2024 to October 2025. Later, the housing allowance given for one year is used to contract the house for five years. “That the DPR member accepted and received RP 50 million every month from October 2024 to October 2025, which would be used for the home contracts during the tenure of DPR members 5 years, namely for 2024 and until 2029,” he explained. “After October 2025, after October 2025, the DPR member did not accept that he would not get another home contract,” he continued. Dasco said the budget for housing allowance during 2024 was not yet fully available. Therefore, housing allowance is given in installments. “So from October 2024 to October 2025, payments were paid, so 50 million for five years is used for contract fees each month,” he said. After November 2025, says Dasco, DPR members will not find household grants again. Dasco said the allowance is only for the need to contract DPR members. “Yes, perhaps the explanation yesterday was incomplete, less detailed, which caused polemics in the wider community,” he explained. “So, because the budget is not enough to be given at the same time, so it is paid for a year in installments, but it has also been for five years for the benefit of the House of the House of Representatives,” Dasco continued. Furthermore, Dasco claims not to understand the origin of the figure of RP. 50 million. He said the figures usually come from the Minister of Finance and the Secretariat -General. “I was not clear that he was decided at the time; he usually decided in the finance minister, but then the proposal of the Secretariat -General was considered, with the price rental, the price of renting a house in Jakarta for five years, for five years,” he said. He also explained that it was related to the viral statement of the DPR Commission I member TB Hasanuddin who said that the net salary obtained by DPR members each month reached RP 100 million. Dasco emphasized that the number was obtained because it was combined with housing allowance. “Yesterday it was transferred by one of the councilors because it was combined with housing allowance. The allowance of the housing I had already transferred. Well, but if the housing allowance was lost, it’s not that much,” he said. (AMW/Fig)