COVID-19 patient under treatment at a hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Photo: Xinhua/ VNA)
Jakarta (VNA) – The Indonesian Government has allocated682.8 trillion rupiah (47.4 billion USD) to health care and social security in the draft State budget in 2022.
On August 18, Minister of Information and Communications Johnny GPlate said the allocated budget includes 255.3 trillionrupiah for health and 427.5 trillion rupiah for social protection activities. Inparticular, the budget will focus on activities such as testing, tracing,treatment, vaccination, and predicting the risk of disease impacts.
According to the minister, this budget will be used to encourage domesticvaccine production and promote the development of a more competitivepharmaceutical industry, while the Government will continue to carry outreforms of the health system.
Regarding the social protection fund, the minister said that 427.5 trillionrupiah is expected to be spent on supporting basic needs for the poor andvulnerable people in society, in order to reduce the povertyrate nationwide during the pandemic. The social protection budget will continueto improve the integrated Social Welfare Data system (DTKS) to have accuratedata on those who need government support, to improve the quality ofprotection.
In addition, the Minister of Information andCommunications said this budget will also support job promotion under theprovisions of the Employment Creation Act (Omnibus)./.
The Indonesian government aims to cut the State budget deficit to 868 trillion IDR (60.38 billion USD) from 939 trillion IDR, accounting for 4.85 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) next year.
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COVID-19 patient under treatment at a hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Photo: Xinhua/ VNA) 
