Sri Mulyani Ready to Disburse Extra Funds for Disaster Management
4 October 2018 10:14 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati is ready to disburse additional funds if the Disaster Management Agency’s (BNPB) National Disaster Management Fund, aka the BNPB on-call funds for the Central Sulawesi Earthquake, has been used.
“If the BNPB fund has been used and they need it, they will submit to us again and they will deliver the program, then it will be verified and disbursed,” Sri Mulyani said at the Ministry of Finance Office, Jakarta, Wednesday, October 3.
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BNPB had proposed the Rp560 billion disaster management funds for the earthquake and tsunami in Palu and Sri Mulyani had agreed.
The on-call funds can be used flexibly by BNPB to mobilize various kinds of emergency humanitarian needs, such as to build temporary housing, clean water and other needs.
CAESAR AKBAR