Press Release Catatan Akhir Tahun Anggaran 2012 Enam Kementerian Pemalas di Tahun Anggaran 2012 Tahun 2011 diakhiri dengan kinerja anggaran yang tidak memuaskan. Anggaran tertumpuk di akhir tahun. Seperempat anggaran…

    Kita menyayangkan kebijakan anggaran pemerintah yang akan mengurangi jumlah Belanja Langsung terutama Belanja Modal pada RAPBD NTB 2013, karena pada saat yang bersamaan pemerintah memproyeksikan Pendapatan Daerah mengalami…

2013 Draft State Budget: Ignoring Women’s and Children’s Rights to Funding In a patriarchal culture women are always the poorest of the poor since, apart from being marginalized by government…

Press Release, FITRA West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) (Ref. NSP. 002/October/2012) LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN NTB WILL HOPEFULLY BE CAREFUL MANAGERS OF LOCAL FINANCES Provincial Government Records Most Cases of Fiscal Mismanagement…

PRESS RELEASE                 Just three of the set of budget documents called “ministry/agency work plans and budgets” (RKA-K/L for short)—those of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the Attorney-General’s Department…

 Wastage on Money on Establishment of Special Courts for Corruption Crimes Special courts to try crimes of corruption (known as TIPIKOR) have been established at high court and district court…

JOINT PRESS RELEASE Sovereignty (rather, lack thereof) over Foodand Energy in the Draft 2013 State Budget Jakarta, 12 September 2012: In his budget speech to the House of Representatives (DPR),…

Press Release Late Submission by Local Governments of Key Budget Policy Documents Problematic for Local Representative Councils The majority of Indonesia’s local governments are late in submitting their “General Budget…

Health Budget for 2013 will not Bring Healing: Funding is Low, Wasteful and Ineffective Government is never serious about its budget allocations for health, even though access to health services…

Press Release A Rag Bag Education Budget and a Placebo Poverty Budget One purpose of budgets is to distribute benefits on the basis of what is felt to fair and…

On 16 August, as usual, the President addressed the House of Representatives (DPR), presenting the government’s annual financial statement and draft 2013 State budget (known as APBN).  Repeating the pattern…

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE  An Alternative State Budget for Fiscal Year 2013: Moving towards Constitutionally-based State Budgets Indonesia’s State budget (known as APBN) is still falling…

Press Release Indonesia’s 10 Potentially most Corrupt Public Institutions President SBY has given a commitment to eradicate corruption from governments led by him.  Unfortunately, this commitment has amounted to little…

Jakarta’s Local Budget Close up “A better future for Jakarta” Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, has a metropolitan area of 740.29 km² and a population of 9.6 million, 368 400 of…

Very Nice! Budget Funding for Presidential Meetings Reaches Rp 30.1 Billion The 2012 State budget is providing Rp 30 182 898 000 for various types of meetings attended by the…

PRESS RELEASE DPR Allocates Rp 539 Billion for Recess Entitlements of DPR Member Members of Indonesia’s House of Representatives (DPR for short) are set to enjoy budgetary entitlements totaling Rp…

“Bloated Bureaucracies”: 291 Regional Governments Spend more than 60% of their Budgets on Civil Service Costs The financial situation of Indonesia’s sub-national governments is becoming more and more critical and…