Local governments can meet again at the hotel, advice: the spirit remains budget efficiency

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 – 09:36 Wib

Yakarta, alive – The president of the Commission of the House of Representatives II, Rifqinizamy Karsayuda, welcomed the regional government bahb (PEMDA) to hold a meeting at a hotel or restaurant. Initially there was a prohibition after the efficiency policy carried out by the administration of President Pabowo Subianto.

The policy was allowed by Interior Minister Tito Karnavian. However, the Council still asks the Regional Government not to waste the budget.

“We should be positively welcome whenever the enthusiasm remains in the efficiency and effectiveness of the budget itself and can be justified and accountingly,” Rifqi told reporters on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

The politician of the Nasdem party asked the regional chief, the governor, the regent and the mayor to make a priority scale related to the allowed agenda.

“The role of the regional chief, the governor/mayor as a person in charge of the budget through their respective regional secretaries is to guarantee what priorities are allowed and the agenda on which scale is allowed to use hotels and restaurants,” he said.

He suggested that if the meeting was not very important and, on a small scale, it could be done in the office.

“Of course, if the meetings are not very important and the scale is small, it has to prioritize the use of offices,” he added.

Previously, Interior Minister Muhammad Tito Karnavian said that the local government was allowed to carry out activities in hotels or restaurants. It is considered that budget efficiency policy does not mean prohibiting meeting activities or meetings that are considered important in hotels or restaurants.

This was transmitted by the Minister of Interior Affairs at the Development Planning Conference, the Regional Medium Development Plan (Musrenbang RPJMD) 2025-2029 and the Government Regional Government Work Plan 2026 (RKPD) of the West Nusa Tenggara Province (NTB) at the Lombok Raya Hotel, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, that the issue of NUSA ” NTB NTB NTB NTB NTB NTB of The Provin of the The Prov.

Tito said that meetings in hotels or restaurants can be done whenever their activities are really useful and not excessive. The step is also to revive the hospitality sector.

The former head of the National Police said he had received a direct direction from President Pabowo Subianto, so that hospitality and restaurants continue on in the midst of efficiency.

“We have to think about restaurant hotels, they also have employees, they also have the supply supply (supply chains) of all types of food (which) we eat now,” said Interior Minister Tito Karnavian, in his statement quotes on Thursday, June 5, 2025.

He continued, the reduction in the budget to carry out activities in hotels and restaurants can be carried out in the midst of efficiency. Even so, the regional government must also think about the sustainability of the sector’s business.

“Reduce, but do not exist at all (budget allocation),” he said.