JAYAPURA - The Daily Executive of Papua Governor Muhammad Ridwan Rumasukun ensures that the arrears of the 2023 Special Autonomy scholarship will be settled before the Independence Day of the Republic of Indonesia.

The arrears of IDR 300 billion will be paid from the Remaining Over Special Autonomy Budget Calculation (SiLPA), which is currently being submitted from the Papua Provincial Government to the Central Government.

"For the Papua Special Autonomy Scholarship for the 2023 period, we are trying to complete it before August 14, 2023."

"The Papua provincial government has submitted an application to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Finance to take from the Remaining Over Special Autonomy Budget Calculation (SiLPA)," Ridwan told reporters in Jayapura.

In addition to using SiLPA Special Autonomy funds, he continued, several regencies and cities in Papua are ready to pay from their budget ceilings. Among them is the Jayapura City Government which agreed to budget IDR 9 billion.

"So, we are grateful, we can reduce the burden on the Papua Provincial Government in completing the payment of this special autonomy scholarship," he said.

About the scholarship arrears for the 2022 period of IDR 122 billion, Ridwan said it had been paid. Thus, the Papua Provincial Government only has the obligation to settle around IDR 300 billion.

"We have completed IDR 122 billion, but there is still IDR 300 billion to be paid before August 14, 2023," he said. ***