Pramono will change local shopping patterns, starting from November-December auctions

Jakarta – DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung will change the pattern of regional spending realization so that budget absorption no longer accumulates at the end of the year. He emphasized that the project auction process could start in November or December, so that the implementation of activities at the beginning of the year could go faster. “The experience of the central government, at the PUPR Ministry, is that auctions can start in November-December. So I have given permission for the same thing to be done in DKI Jakarta,” Pramono said on Thursday (10/23/2025) at the Velodrome, East Jakarta. Scroll TO CONTINUE CONTENT With this pattern, the implementation of activities can begin in January or February, rather than just starting in the middle of the year. According to Pramono, this step was taken to correct the old pattern where new projects started at the end of the year and caused a buildup of spending in December. “If the auction only starts in March or April, it will only be implemented in October-November. As a result, money piles up in December, as said by the Minister of Finance (Purbaya) yesterday,” he said. Previously, the realization of spending for the regional income and expenditure (APBD) until the third quarter of 2025 was considered to be still slow. As a result, as many as 15 regional governments (Pemda) have the highest regional fund savings in banking. Minister of Finance Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa said that the total regional funds deposited in banks reached IDR 234 trillion. Even though the central government quickly distributed the budget to the regions. “This low absorption has led to an increase in idle regional government money deposits in banks up to IDR 234 trillion. So it is clearly not a matter of not having money, but a matter of speed of execution,” Purbaya said at the 2025 Inflation Control Meeting at the Office of the Ministry of Interior, Central Jakarta, Monday (20/10). (clock/mo)