Fantastic, It Turns Out That's the Capital to Become a DPR Candidate

"Fantastic, Apparently This is the Capital to Become a Member of Parliament Candidate"

Dream - The stage of the 2024 Election will soon begin. Not only Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, but also legislative candidates, also known as caleg, will compete. The Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu) even candidly reveals the capital of the caleg who will fight in the upcoming 2024 Election. The value even reaches billions of rupiah.

Fantastic, It Turns Out That's the Capital to Become a DPR Candidate

Head of the Macro Economic Policy Center of the Fiscal Policy Agency (BKF) of the Ministry of Finance, Abdurrohman, informed that the average campaign fund to compete for seats in the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI) reaches Rp 1 billion per person. As for occupying seats in the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD), it ranges around Rp 200 million.

"If we assume that the expenditure of candidates for the central DPR is around Rp 1 billion, and for the DPRD is around Rp 200 million per person,"

He said, quoted from Liputan6.com, Friday, October 20, 2023.

"Moreover, according to him, the capital spent by the legislative candidates could be higher than the assumption of the Ministry of Finance. 'Yesterday I saw on TV that some candidates even claimed to spend (capital) 5 billion Rupiah, 3 billion Rupiah, that's why we say (on average) 1 billion Rupiah,' he explained."

The number of legislative candidates in the upcoming 2024 election is said to not differ significantly from the previous 2019 election. Where, the number of candidates competing for 500 seats in the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI) is projected to reach 8,037 people.

"Then, the Provincial Level I DPRD has 2,372 seats, the District/City DPRD has 17,510 seats. Out of these seats, there are approximately 258,631 people running for the 2019 DPRD I and II elections. This is assuming that the number of candidates remains the same."

"ujarnya" translates to "he/she said."

"He estimates that the contribution of money circulation from the election of candidates contributes around 0.27 percent to GDP. This assumption is obtained from the capital contribution of candidates to the Non-Profit Institution serving Households (LNPRT) which is around 6.57 percent."

LNPRT is a non-profit institution that serves its members or households, and is not controlled by the government. LNPRT is one component of the Expenditure GDP.

"Nah, there will be an indirect impact on public consumption in 2024 of around 0.21 percent, this is added to the gross domestic product (GDP) of 2024 of around 0.27 percent, according to our rough calculations. That will slightly compensate for the global economic downturn."

"pungkasnya" translates to "concluded" in English.

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