Budgetary Mysteries

A state capital participation budget of Rp5.75 trillion was passed without DPR approval. Some of the money is purely administrative, some of it hard cash.

July 30, 2013

Lili Asdjudiredja's eyes widened when she saw the breakdown of figures in the Amended 2013 State Income and Expenditure Budget that was passed into law on June 17. The member of the House of Representatives' (DPR) Commission on State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) was shocked to see the State Capital Investment Funds (PMN) in the five largest SOE, of Rp5.75 trillion. She was sure her commission had never approved such a budget. "This is nothing less than

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