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GOVT COULD NOT SOLVE UNEMPLOYMENT WITH PRESENT BUDGET: OBSERVER
Jakarta, Jan 4 (ANTARA) - An economic observer has predicted that the government's budget policy for 2009 would worsen the country's economic diseases such as unemployment, poverty and social gaps.
"The 2009 state budget will fail to reduce unemployment in the country. This is because the funds to be used to create job opportunities in 2009 will be taken from program loans amounting to Rp26 trillion so that the jobs will be filled by expatriates," Ichsanudin Noorsy of the Awaken Indonesia Team, said here on Sunday.
He said more than 50 percent of the funds to be obtained from the program loans would be used to enhance employment for expatriates.
In the meantime, he said, most of the central government's expenditures of Rp716.376 trillion and the Rp320.69 trillion to be transferred to the regions would be spent on the bureaucracy's expenditures.
"It's true that there are funds intended to increase job opportunities but they will not be enough to offset the waves of layoffs," he said.
He said the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) and business makers had used above mentioned reason to ask the government to increase its spendings so that employment could be expanded.
The decreasing volume of banking credits this year, he said, would also worsen the problem.
Noorsy, who is an economic observer from the Gajah Mada University, said the only hope lies on the government's political expenditures and the people's spendings.
However, the people's spendings would be smaller this year because people would limit their expenditures to a level just enough to survive the economic crisis, he added.
He said the economic crisis should actually lead the government to issue polices that would protect the national economic interest.
"The government could follow the example of the United States' president-elect who has prepared a policy to protect the national economy and 4.5 million unemployed people as well as to reinvigorate the weakening economy," he added.
"The 2009 state budget will fail to reduce unemployment in the country. This is because the funds to be used to create job opportunities in 2009 will be taken from program loans amounting to Rp26 trillion so that the jobs will be filled by expatriates," Ichsanudin Noorsy of the Awaken Indonesia Team, said here on Sunday.
He said more than 50 percent of the funds to be obtained from the program loans would be used to enhance employment for expatriates.
In the meantime, he said, most of the central government's expenditures of Rp716.376 trillion and the Rp320.69 trillion to be transferred to the regions would be spent on the bureaucracy's expenditures.
"It's true that there are funds intended to increase job opportunities but they will not be enough to offset the waves of layoffs," he said.
He said the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) and business makers had used above mentioned reason to ask the government to increase its spendings so that employment could be expanded.
The decreasing volume of banking credits this year, he said, would also worsen the problem.
Noorsy, who is an economic observer from the Gajah Mada University, said the only hope lies on the government's political expenditures and the people's spendings.
However, the people's spendings would be smaller this year because people would limit their expenditures to a level just enough to survive the economic crisis, he added.
He said the economic crisis should actually lead the government to issue polices that would protect the national economic interest.
"The government could follow the example of the United States' president-elect who has prepared a policy to protect the national economy and 4.5 million unemployed people as well as to reinvigorate the weakening economy," he added.
