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UNSPENT REGIONAL BUDGETS AMOUNT TO RP45 TRILLION
Jakarta, Dec 11 (ANTARA) - The total amount of unspent budgets (SILPA) for all regions in Indonesia reaches Rp45 trillion, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said here on Thursday.
"Many regions could not absorb the whole of their regional budgets (APBD) so that there are unspent budgets amounting to Rp45 trillion," the finance minister said when opening a "Fiscal Decentralization Policy 2008 Forum" at the Aston Atrium Hotel.
She regretted the fact that the regional budgets were not absorbed maximally while there was a relatively big deficit in the state budget which reached Rp50 to Rp70 trillion.
"The deficit means expenditures exceed revenues. Some of the budgets for expenditures were transferred to the regions so that we hope the regions will use them maximally," the minister said.
Previously, the director general for financial balance of the Ministry of Finance, Mardiasmo estimated that the absorption of budgets transfered to the regions from the 2008 revised budget would reach 95 percent of the total funds of Rp292.4 trillion.
"We hope that with 95 percent, the absorption this year will increase from that last year, because the funds for Aceh special autonomous region for example has spent 100 percent, and now we are waiting for reports from Papua province on its spending. In the meantime the public allocation funds (DAU) have also been absorbed 100 percent," he said.
He said that the absorption realization of transferred funds to the regions up to December 9, 2008 had reached about 89 percent. The ceiling of transferred funds to the regions in the 2008 revised budget were recorded at Rp292.4 trillion, consisting of financial balance funds worth Rp278.44 trillion and special autonomous and adjustment funds amounting to Rp13.99 trillion.
The financial balance funds consisted of Rp179.51 trillion in DAU, Rp77.73 trillion in DBH funds and Rp21.20 trillion in special allocation fund scheme (DAK).
Mardiasmo said that the DAU funds had been distributed 100 percent to the regions, among others for the educational sector while the DBH funds were still waiting for disbursement. ***2***
"Many regions could not absorb the whole of their regional budgets (APBD) so that there are unspent budgets amounting to Rp45 trillion," the finance minister said when opening a "Fiscal Decentralization Policy 2008 Forum" at the Aston Atrium Hotel.
She regretted the fact that the regional budgets were not absorbed maximally while there was a relatively big deficit in the state budget which reached Rp50 to Rp70 trillion.
"The deficit means expenditures exceed revenues. Some of the budgets for expenditures were transferred to the regions so that we hope the regions will use them maximally," the minister said.
Previously, the director general for financial balance of the Ministry of Finance, Mardiasmo estimated that the absorption of budgets transfered to the regions from the 2008 revised budget would reach 95 percent of the total funds of Rp292.4 trillion.
"We hope that with 95 percent, the absorption this year will increase from that last year, because the funds for Aceh special autonomous region for example has spent 100 percent, and now we are waiting for reports from Papua province on its spending. In the meantime the public allocation funds (DAU) have also been absorbed 100 percent," he said.
He said that the absorption realization of transferred funds to the regions up to December 9, 2008 had reached about 89 percent. The ceiling of transferred funds to the regions in the 2008 revised budget were recorded at Rp292.4 trillion, consisting of financial balance funds worth Rp278.44 trillion and special autonomous and adjustment funds amounting to Rp13.99 trillion.
The financial balance funds consisted of Rp179.51 trillion in DAU, Rp77.73 trillion in DBH funds and Rp21.20 trillion in special allocation fund scheme (DAK).
Mardiasmo said that the DAU funds had been distributed 100 percent to the regions, among others for the educational sector while the DBH funds were still waiting for disbursement. ***2***
