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

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Indonesia's Anggaran Responsif Gender tags gender-related budget lines across ministries since 2000, but a World Bank assessment found funding collapsed 48% in 2016 when an enforcement mechanism was removed, and sex-disaggregated data covers under 4% of programmes.

230.47 IDR billion
Gender-tagged allocations, 2015 (2015)
120.48 IDR billion
Gender-tagged allocations, 2016 (2016)
23 of 87
Ministries with Gender Budget Statements, 2018 (2018)
4.18 %
Share of combined ministry budget covered, 2018 (2018)
14.28 %
Share of combined ministry budget covered, 2019 (2019)
3.7-3.8 %
Share of budget programmes with sex-disaggregated performance data

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Ministry of Finance / Bappenas / Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection
Period
2000–present
Keywords
public finance, budget policy, gender equality, government

Context

Indonesia's Anggaran Responsif Gender (ARG) requires ministries to produce Gender Budget Statements (PPRG), tagging budget lines that address gender gaps. Its roots trace to Presidential Instruction No. 9/2000, institutionalised through Bappenas Decree Kep.30/M.PPN/HK/03/2009 and Ministry of Finance Regulation No. 119/PMK.02/2009.

Activities

Ministries produce annual Gender Budget Statements; since 2024-25 the same tagging logic has begun rolling out to regional governments through the SIPD digital planning system.

Results

Gender-tagged allocations were IDR 230.47 billion (2015), 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.

Conclusions

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. The share of budget programmes with sex-disaggregated performance data was just 3.7-3.8%, against a 25% adequacy benchmark (grade D).

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
Ministry of Finance, Bappenas, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection

Conditions for success

  • an active enforcement mechanism (the removed 'Bintang' budget-blocking tool) rather than the formal tagging rule alone
  • digital rollout to regional governments via SIPD

Common failure modes

  • funding collapsed 48% in 2016 when the Bintang enforcement mechanism was removed
  • sex-disaggregated performance data covers under 4% of programmes, graded D against the Bank's own benchmark
  • large 'fat outputs' counted as fully gender-related without any weighting method

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