In response to the recent interpellation of Member of the Legislative Yuan Kao Chin Su-mei in the Legislative Yuan and the opinions and doubts on her Facebook posts ("Be careful! The fund has been bankrupted by the government" and "The Tribal Autonomy Pilot Project cannot be rigged"), Council of Indigenous Peoples Chairperson Ljaucu Zingrur stated that the Indigenous Comprehensive Development Fund is still in place and logging ban compensation will be granted as scheduled in accordance with the law. The Pilot Tribal Autonomy Project is currently delayed due to insufficient legal authorization, hence a consensus among ethnic groups has not yet been reached. The Council is adopting a step-by-step approach to accumulate practical experience as the basis of future system design. This is not due to the project being rigged.

The Council of Indigenous Peoples stated that the Indigenous Comprehensive Development Fund has been established in accordance with Article 18 of the Indigenous Peoples Basic Law, the purpose of which is to assist with the overall development of indigenous peoples' society. Taking loans as an example, by the end of March 2025 the cumulative number of loan applications approved has reached 41,371, totaling NT$14.266 billion. The loan budget for 2025 is NT$688 million, and by the end of March, 312 loan applications totaling NT$188 million had been approved at a completion rate of 27.34%, indicating that the fund operation is steady. If there is a fund shortage, the Executive Yuan will provide appropriations to ensure the sustainability of the funding.

Regarding logging ban compensation, the Council of Indigenous Peoples explained that the compensation amount per hectare has increased as of 2025 from NT$30,000 to NT$60,000 to ensure stronger protection of indigenous peoples' rights. This year, the application for additional budget has been submitted to the Executive Yuan in accordance with the law, and a total general budget of NT$5.215 billion for next year is in place. All administrative processes are executed following due procedures without delay.

In the matter of the Tribal Autonomy Pilot Project that has raised concerns, the Council of Indigenous Peoples has emphasized that based on the opinions of the Ministry of Justice and the Legislative Research Bureau of the Legislative Yuan, it has been confirmed that the authorization of the current legal system for tribal autonomy is insufficient. Among some ethnic groups there are still doubts about how to promote the system. Hence the project remains at its current stage. While at a small-scale when the pilot project is controllable, the Council is accumulating experience of how this would operate in practice as an important basis for large-scale roll-out and future legislative planning.

The Council of Indigenous Peoples has further explained that there are approximately 743 tribes in Taiwan currently. To avoid the time-consuming report submission from impacting the effectiveness of the pilot project, when planning the pilot project, in addition to taking ethnic diversity and regional balance into account, a proactive evaluation and precise selection should be used to make resources more centralized, the pilot project more focused, and the promotion process more efficient. In the future, the Council will continue to listen to the opinions from all perspectives and promote the tribal autonomy mechanism with an open, transparent, practical, and stable approach.