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Fri, 08/15/2008 - 22:05
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GOVT PROJECTS 2009 BUDGET DEFICIT AT RP99.6 TRILLION
Jakarta, Aug 15 (ANTARA) - The government has projected a deficit in the draft 2009 state budget at Rp99.6 trillion or 1.9 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).
State revenues and grants were expected to increase 14.3 percent to Rp1,022.6 trillion and state expenditures 13.4 percent to Rp1,122.2 trillion next year from the revised 2008 state budget, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said in his state-of-the-nation address before the House of Representatives (DPR) here on Friday.
"With the value of the draft 2009 state budget, our state revenues and expenditures will for the first time reach the level of more than Rp1,000 trillion since Indonesia proclaimed its independence," he said.
The draft 2009 state budget represented a remarkable rise compared to the 2005 state budget which stood at Rp500 trillion and indicated the increasingly important role of the state budget in the national economy and development, he said.
"The budget allocation for the improvement of basic services in the health, education and rural development sectors will be Rp142.8 trillion, poverty eradication programs Rp66.2 trillion and rural development Rp17 trillion," he said.
The budget allocation for the sectors was aimed at lowering poverty rate to 12-14 percent, encouraging public participation in the educational sector ranging from elementary to high education, increasing the coverage of free health services for low-income people treated in the class III at hospitals, improving basic health services for all citizens treated at public health service posts, and enabling people from all walks of live to have greater access to transportation services.
State revenues and grants were expected to increase 14.3 percent to Rp1,022.6 trillion and state expenditures 13.4 percent to Rp1,122.2 trillion next year from the revised 2008 state budget, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said in his state-of-the-nation address before the House of Representatives (DPR) here on Friday.
"With the value of the draft 2009 state budget, our state revenues and expenditures will for the first time reach the level of more than Rp1,000 trillion since Indonesia proclaimed its independence," he said.
The draft 2009 state budget represented a remarkable rise compared to the 2005 state budget which stood at Rp500 trillion and indicated the increasingly important role of the state budget in the national economy and development, he said.
"The budget allocation for the improvement of basic services in the health, education and rural development sectors will be Rp142.8 trillion, poverty eradication programs Rp66.2 trillion and rural development Rp17 trillion," he said.
The budget allocation for the sectors was aimed at lowering poverty rate to 12-14 percent, encouraging public participation in the educational sector ranging from elementary to high education, increasing the coverage of free health services for low-income people treated in the class III at hospitals, improving basic health services for all citizens treated at public health service posts, and enabling people from all walks of live to have greater access to transportation services.
