JAKARTA. Commission XI of the House of Representatives of Indonesia (DPR RI) approved the 2022 Annual Budget Plan of Bank Indonesia (BI), including the operational income of DR 28.41 trillion and operational expense of IDR 14.29 trillion.
During the Working Committee Meeting with BI yesterday (29/11), Dito Ganinduto, the Head of Commission XI of DPR RI, explained that the operating income would be mainly supported by the foreign currency asset management of IDR 28.35 trillion, shifting 2.4% higher than in BI 2021 Annual Budget of IDR 27.69 trillion. He further specified that the income from treasury notes would amount to IDR 28.17 trillion, 2.5% higher than the position in the 2021 operational budget. Then, the income from deposit interests would decline 17.81% to IDR 182.86 billion from BI’s 2021 Annual Budget.
Meanwhile, the operating income from the current account interests would reach IDR 2.5 billion, dropping 70.04% from the 2021 budget, while other foreign currency transactions would generate IDR 963.30 million. Other aspects include supporting activities that would bring in IDR 5.36 billion, depleting 77.61% from IDR 23.32 billion in the 2021 budget, and administrative fees that could add IDR 53.18 billion, soaring 58.95% from BI’s 2021 Annual Budget.
On the other hand, the operating expenses of BI in 2022 are set to reach 16.84% higher, arriving at IDR 14.29 trillion. The said budget consists of salaries and other benefits of IDR 4.27 trillion, human resource management (HRM) of IDR 3.4 trillion, logistics IDR 1.9 trillion, and other supplemental operations of IDR 1.96 trillion. Moreover, there were also BI’s social programs and the development of the real and MSME sector, which would take IDR 1.31 trillion, taxes of IDR 1.2 trillion, and budget reserves of IDR 345.61 billion. (AM/ZH)