In the 2019 Presidential Debate, presidential candidate number 02, Prabowo, proposed increasing the welfare of state officials and civil servants (ASN) if elected president. This was intended to prevent these officials from engaging in corruption. To fund this initiative, candidate number 02 aimed to increase the tax ratio to 16%. If the tax ratio increases, the state would receive an additional US$60 billion.
According to data from the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu), the broad tax ratio reached 10.7% by 2017 and 11.5% in 2018 (provisional figures). Despite a downward trend in recent years, the 2018 tax ratio showed an increase compared to the previous year.
Furthermore, the narrow tax ratio in 2017 recorded only 9.9%, a decrease of 0.47% from 2016. The broad tax ratio is calculated from central government tax revenue plus natural resource (SDA) revenue, compared to the current year's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The narrow tax ratio, on the other hand, only considers central government tax revenue compared to GDP.
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