Jakarta -At the momentum of the 21st anniversary of the DPD RI, the DPD RI cenator of the Northern Sumatra Province as well as the chairman of the DPD RI group at the MPR RI, Dedi Iskandar Batubara specifically highlighted to reduce the transfer funds to the regions. According to Dedi, the region of this year experienced a little shock because the center reduced the transfer funds to the regions. “The DPD RI as a regional representation must continue to oversee the government that the transfer to the region is a regional right. The central government must provide adequate and fair allocation for all regions,” Dedi said in its statement, Thursday (2/10/2025). Browse to continue the content, he said after the national dialogue and ‘institutional commemoration of the state: efforts to extend vision and perspective for performing the DPD RI’ performance ‘on Tuesday (30/9). Dedi reminded that the regions that contributed to the development of the country and the country were actually rushed to care for their shopping budget in the regions. “The affairs of the payroll or routine expenses can be resolved, but if construction spending does not work, the underprivileged areas will be increasingly left behind and the area starting to start going forward will deteriorate again,” he said. Therefore, Dedi hopes that the central government will be maximized to the regions. “Although the government has a new program, it should not reduce the existing one,” he said. Because, he said, if the region develops, the country would continue. If the area is backwards, it means Indonesia will also experience a setback. “One of our development variables is the basic service needs in the community related to education, health. And if the transfer funds are reduced, it will certainly be disrupted,” Dedi said while the addition, education, health and other public services would be disrupted. “If disturbed, I think the government’s target process to reach Gold 2025 from Indonesia will experience interference,” he added. Furthermore, Dedi said the DPD RI on October 1, 2025 was 21 years old. This means that the DPD has served a task as an institution that is quite long and quite mature. “Of course, there are many notes that are written down; much success at the same time is also natural that there are domestic workers who have not yet been resolved,” he said. Dedi specifically emphasized the collaboration associated with various strategic issues connecting the DPD RI to managers or other state institutions. He also said that he supported the steps of the DPD leadership to continue productive steps as regional representatives to perform their duties and functions more optimally. Secondly, Dedi’s continued, the hope of the DPD RI as an institution produced from reform products must have a larger and important role in the legislation. “In the context as a parliamentary institution, the hope of reform to the DPD RI is a counterweight for our legislation,” he emphasized. In addition, Dedi acknowledged that the authority of the new DPD, to this day, in accordance with the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, has reached the representation of a bill related to the region, but that does not mean that the DPD does not perform its most important tasks to the maximum. Dedi also said that the roles and work of the senators in different regions sufficiently gained a place in the hearts of the community, although the possession of the government was not the same as Parliament owned. “At this 21st anniversary, the DPD RI must further strengthen the position and existence of the DPD RI filled with 152 senators out of 38 provinces. They are representatives of local communities who have the ability, integrity and capacity, do not have to be doubted,” he said. “Their battle at national level also brings the pursuit and interests of local communities in different ways, especially on regional profit funds,” Dedi concluded. For information, the dialogue to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the DPD RI in 2025 was held by the DPD RI Secretariat General in collaboration with Green Democracy Initute. (Ega/Ega)
Senator Dedi Iskandar hopes the transfer funds to the regions will continue to maximize
