How the IKN and Free Meal Programs Drain the State Budget

The biggest budget absorbers in 2025 will be the development of the new capital city and the free nutritious meal program. A great number of civil servants will soon relocate.

Retno Sulistyowati

July 8, 2024

ANDI, not his real name, was relieved. Two months before the relocation of civil servants (ASN) to Nusantara Capital City (IKN) in North Penajam Paser, East Kalimantan, his name was not listed among government employees to be transferred to the new capital. “Thank God. It’s because they are targeting young people, especially those who are still single,” Andi, an employee at a ministry in Central Jakarta, told Tempo on Frida

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