TNP2K Hosts Chinese Government Representatives to Discuss DPL

17 December 2014

TNP2K welcomed delegates from the Chinese government to its office in central Jakarta on Wednesday (11/12/14) discuss development policy lending (DPL), a financial instrument used by the World Bank to support development projects.

Deputy for Social Welfare and Poverty Alleviation and Executive Secretary of TNP2K Bambang Widianto opened the event with a presentation on DPL processes, TNP2K’s experiences with DPL as well as a basic introduction on poverty reduction efforts in Indonesia.

Referring to the many achievements TNP2K made over the past four years, Widianto said: “We now have a unified database and better targeting, which is why we received the DPL, so that funds could be used to further improve these processes.”

“As a result of the DPL, we could conduct reforms [to social assistance programmes] and had more budgetary flexibility,” he added.

DPL funds are provided directly to a borrowing country’s general budget, and are designed to support governments in implementing reforms focused on achieving specific results through policy and financial institutional actions.

Following Widianto’s presentation, he asked several questions by the Chinese delegation on both the working of the DPLs and TNP2K, including its role in coordinating social assistance programmes between various Indonesian government ministries.