INCREASING taxes as much as possible to reduce the budget deficit. This appears to be whats behind the Danareksa version of the draft 2003 State Budget. Danareksa director Raden Pardede has said that expenditure volume in next years draft budget will amount to Rp370 trillion, an increase of 11 percent compared to this year. If the government wants to reduce the budget from 2.5 percent of GDP, then, like it or not, tax revenues must be pushed t