No Cause for Worry?
The 2001 state budget is estimated to soar to Rp82.5 trillion. The government doesn’t plan to revise it before June 2001. Its strategy is to push for revenues and tighten expenditure.
April 10, 2001
Anwar, an employee at the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications, slumps in his seat upon reading a newspaper article. It says that starting next November, the government will probably be unable to pay civil servants’ (PNS) salaries. The reason? A colossal budget deficit. For someone like him, the news is extremely worrying. What can he do? Nothing but shake his head weakly. But he warns, "If civil servants don’t
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