Finance Minister Sri Mulyani said that until now there has been no and there has been no discussion about the increase in the President's salary.

"It doesn't exist, and it has never been discussed," said Mulyani when answering reporters' questions at a press conference at the Bogor presidential palace, Monday (12/3/2018), as reported by Antara.

Previously, news circulated that the president's basic salary, which is only around Rp. 30 million per month, is currently considered very small and is planning to increase it to Rp. 553 million per month.

Sri Mulyani emphasized that the news that the Minister for State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform was a hoax or hoax.

"It's a hoax, because there are a lot of social media that produce information, for documents that are made similar to those of the government that are published. So we have no discussion about it, absolutely nothing," said Mulyani.

Regarding the salaries of civil servants (PNS), Sri Mulyani also conveyed that the 2018 draft government regulation (RPP) and the 2019 Revised State Revenue and Expenditure Budget (RAPBN) would be submitted in the same way as the government submitted to the DPR.

"In the financial memorandum of salary increase, the provision of the 13th salary and pensioners will be included by the President in the financial note in August," said Mulyani.

The simulation of the change in salary provisions for the president appeared in the RPP on the Salary and Allowances for Civil Servants (PNS) which was circulated recently.

In the RPP, apart from the president, the vice president and other high-ranking state officials will also experience a salary increase.