The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK)'s indicative budget allocation for 2025 has decreased significantly.
This is evident from the *Macroeconomic Framework and Main Points of Fiscal Policy for 2025* (KEM PPKF) released by the Ministry of Finance in May 2024.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the indicative budget is a preliminary budget allocation given to ministries/agencies as a guideline for preparing the following year's work plan.
The "indicative budget" is formulated from a basic budget benchmark plus new initiatives and will later become the "budget allocation" after adjustments by the ministries/agencies.
Its status will then change again to "budget allocation" after discussion with the DPR (House of Representatives).
Based on the latest KEM PPKF, the KLHK's indicative budget allocation for 2025 is Rp6.24 trillion.
This is a decrease of approximately Rp1.48 trillion, or a 19% reduction compared to the budget allocation in the 2024 State Budget (APBN).
The largest reduction occurred in the Environmental Quality Program budget.
In the 2024 APBN, this program received a budget allocation of Rp1.2 trillion. However, in 2025, its indicative budget has decreased by 62.5% to Rp451.2 billion.
Similar reductions occurred in the forest management, disaster resilience and climate change, and vocational education budget items.
The only item with an increased indicative budget is management support.
Here is a detailed breakdown of the percentage increase/decrease in the KLHK's indicative budget allocation for 2025 per program:
* Management Support Program: indicative budget increased by 10.7% (compared to the budget allocation in the 2024 APBN)
* Sustainable Forest Management Program: decreased by 40.5%
* Environmental Quality Program: decreased by 62.5%
* Disaster Resilience and Climate Change Program: decreased by 14.1%
* Vocational Education and Training Program: decreased by 37.4%
* Total indicative budget allocation for KLHK: decreased by 19.1%