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AS soon as he takes charge of the new government, president-elect Joko Widodo will have little choice but to reduce spending. One way would be to cut back the huge budget for official travel. Such an endeavor would not only salvage state funds, it might just reform the bureaucracy.
Total spending on official travel by the central government has been allocated at Rp35 trillion. This figure, which is included in the proposed 2015 State Budget, is around 30 percent higher than that of the previous year. It includes Rp11 trillion for meetings out of town, but excludes the Rp38 trillion allocated for overseas travel.
September 23, 2014
AS soon as he takes charge of the new government, president-elect Joko Widodo will have little choice but to reduce spending. One way would be to cut back the huge budget for official travel. Such an endeavor would not only salvage state funds, it might just reform the bureaucracy.
Total spending on official travel by the central government has been allocated at Rp35 trillion. This figure, which is included in the proposed 2015 State Budget, is
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