Indonesia's Anggaran Responsif Gender — Gender-Responsive Budget Statements Across Ministries

Indonesia's Anggaran Responsif Gender (ARG) requires ministries to produce Gender Budget Statements (Perencanaan dan Penganggaran Responsif Gender, PPRG), tagging budget lines that address gender gaps. Its roots trace to Presidential Instruction No. 9/2000 on gender mainstreaming, institutionalised through Bappenas Decree Kep.30/M.PPN/HK/03/2009 and Ministry of Finance Regulation No. 119/PMK.02/2009, coordinated jointly by the Ministry of Finance, Bappenas, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection. Since 2024-25 the same tagging logic has begun rolling out to regional governments through the SIPD digital planning system.
The World Bank's 2020 PEFA assessment of Indonesia's gender-responsive public financial management documents the practice's scale and volatility using Ministry of Finance data: gender-tagged allocations were IDR 230.47 billion (2015), but collapsed to IDR 120.48 billion across just 9 ministries in 2016; by 2018, 23 of 87 line ministries had Gender Budget Statements, covering IDR 18.16 trillion (4.18%) of their combined IDR 434.4 trillion budget, rising to a 14.28% share across 26 ministries in 2019.
The World Bank ties the 2015-16 funding collapse directly to the removal of the 'Bintang' budget-blocking enforcement mechanism following a 2013 Constitutional Court ruling — evidence that gender tagging depends on active enforcement rather than the formal rule alone. The same assessment rates the share of budget programmes with sex-disaggregated performance data at just 3.7-3.8%, against its own 25% adequacy benchmark (grade D), and warns that large 'fat outputs' — such as a national health-insurance subsidy for 96.8 million people — are counted as fully gender-related without any weighting method, which 'will be misleading'.

Read the full analysis: https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/600421614337180177/txt/PEFA-Assessment-of-Gender-Responsive-Public-Financial-Management.txt