TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Surfing the Internet for several days after the turn of the year, Tempo found no copy of the law governing the 2026 State Budget (APBN) on official government channels. It was not until Deputy Finance Minister Suahasil Nazara offered a hint. “It’s been uploaded. Please check,” he told Tempo on Wednesday afternoon, January 7, 2026.
Sure enough, Law No. 17/2025 on the 2026 State Budget suddenly appeared on the Legal Documentation and Information Network of the Ministry of State Secretariat. According to the website, the regulation had been promulgated on October 22, 2025. The House of Representatives (DPR) had passed the 2026 State Budget Bill into…