What is the budget for the Police and the KPK?

Because the Special Committee (Pansus) on the Right to Question the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in the House of Representatives (DPR) failed to bring Miryam S. Haryani before them, it suggested freezing the 2018 budgets of the Police and the KPK. So, how large are the budgets of these two government institutions?

In the 2017 State Budget (APBN), the Police's budget reached Rp 84 trillion, a 5.97 percent increase from the 2016 Revised State Budget (APBNP) of Rp 79.27 trillion. Meanwhile, the KPK's budget in 2017 was Rp 734.2 billion, a decrease of approximately 26 percent from the 2016 APBNP of Rp 991.9 billion. The total budget for Ministries and Institutions reached Rp 763.58 trillion, down 0.6 percent from the 2016 APBNP of Rp 767.8 trillion.

The proposal to freeze the KPK and Police budgets emerged after National Police Chief General Tito Karnavian refused to forcibly apprehend Miryam, a suspect in the alleged e-KTP corruption case. Member of the KPK Right to Question Committee, Muhammad Misbakhun, suggested that the DPR consider using its budgetary rights to not discuss the budgets of these two institutions in the 2018 State Budget Draft (RAPBN) currently being discussed with the government.