Pork Barrel Acrobatics
The DPR is passing on the aspiration fund proposal to the government. This bypasses the legislative-executive firewall.
June 23, 2010
THE House of Representatives (DPR) has gone too far. The parliamentarians at Senayan have gone ahead with the aspiration fund proposal, ignoring and seemingly unaware of the public’s condemnation. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono must not move an inch from the government’s position of excluding the aspiration fund proposal from the 2011 State Budget report which will be read at the DPR Plenary Session on August 16.
The President can ignore
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