REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir positively welcomed the support of the VI DPR Commission which approved the proposal for Megara Capital Inclusion (PMN) in the budget year 2025 of Rp 44.279 trillion. According to Erick after the PMN was approved, the Revision of the Statute of Statutory Enterprises was judged to further encourage the acceleration of SOEs to become more transparent and professional.

According to Erick, the SOE bill could be a solution to a number of issues that have been challenging for SOEs, one of which is related to assignment. “The SOE bill, I think this will be the thing that can solve some of the points of record that have been presented earlier regarding whether assignment, how when other ministry programs should also be an operational part of the business,” Erick said.

Earlier Erick admitted to being grateful that Parliament had approved the PMN proposal. “Alhamdulillah I thank the VI Commission of the DPR for approving the proposal (PMN) amounting to Rp 44.279 trillion. We also begin to socialize internally and recalculate everything that is indeed a record in order to be able to maximize it in the future,” Erick said during a working meeting with the VI DPR Commission in DPR Building, Jakarta, Wednesday (10/7/2024) evening.

Erick said that the PMN of the 2025 budget year is a historic one because it no longer relies on the national debt. This is inseparable from the increase in the contribution of SOEs through dividends to the state. “What is interesting from some discussions earlier is that this is the first time that PMN is not based on state debt, because dividends are larger than PMN. The total dividend is almost Rp 280 trillion, while the PMN is about Rp 212 trillion, so there is a difference of about Rp 68 trillion,” Erick said.

Erick called this a positive achievement and provided a certainty for the steps in the development and transformation of SOEs in the future. Thus, says Erick, SOEs can continue to increase their role as a bulwark of the national economy.

“Commission VI of the DPR also saw (approval) of this PMN due to the large number of assignments to SOEs, therefore we strongly encourage for the BUMN bill to be fully approved,” the Jakarta-born man added.