Jakarta, March 24 -- Indonesia's Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has revealed that the state utilized a budget of Rp13.6 trillion (nearly USD821 million) to implement the 50-percent power discount policy in January and February this year.

"The total provisional value of budget realization has reached Rp13.6 trillion," she said in a post on her Instagram account @smindrawati , which was accessed from here on Monday

Indrawati informed that the power incentive benefited 71.1 million residents in January and 64.8 million the next month.

The state treasurer highlighted that the national initiative positively impacted the inflation rate of products with administered prices, and thereby helped keep national inflation rates at a favorab...