Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has promised to increase expenditure budget on infrastructure projects as one of the nine main targets of state expenditures by the ministries/state institutions as well as non-ministries/non state institutions.
"We will aim the expenditures at achieving nine main targets, namely expenditure on infrastructure," President Yudhoyono said his state-of-the-nation address on the 2012 Draft State Budget and Financial Notes at a plenary session of the House of Representatives (DPR) here on Tuesday.
He said that infrastructure expenditures must be increased in order to overcome constraints and develop domestic inter-connectivity, food resilience, energy resilience and people`s prosperity.
Besides, infrastructure expenditures were also aimed at finalizing bureaucratic reform programs, increasing social security, empowerment of the people and natural disaster mitigation.
"The fourth thing is reinforcing pro-people programs through pro-poverty eradication steps and enhancement of employment," he said.
On the fifth priority, the president said that it included effort to improve the state expenditure quality through performance-based budgeting and a mid-term spending scheme.
He said that the other targets included maintaining the welfare of state apparatuses, increasing the mitigation and adaptation of climate change capacity, meeting educational budget based on the constitution and increasing budget allocation for researches and human resource capacity development.
"The nine target is to provide support for the Public Private Partnership activities," the president said.
In his address, the president indicated that the country`s revenues and grant were set at Rp1,292.9 trillion, or up 10.5 percent from the 2011 revised state budget at Rp1,169.9 trillion.
The state expenditures were set at Rp1,418.5 trillion, up 97.7 trillion or 7.4 percent from the 2011 revised state budget which was set at 1,320.8 trillion.
Thus, the draft state budget deficit for 2012 amounted to Rp125.6 trillion, or 1.5 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or lower than the deficit of the 2011 revised state budget which was set at Rp150.9 trillion.(*)
"We will aim the expenditures at achieving nine main targets, namely expenditure on infrastructure," President Yudhoyono said his state-of-the-nation address on the 2012 Draft State Budget and Financial Notes at a plenary session of the House of Representatives (DPR) here on Tuesday.
He said that infrastructure expenditures must be increased in order to overcome constraints and develop domestic inter-connectivity, food resilience, energy resilience and people`s prosperity.
Besides, infrastructure expenditures were also aimed at finalizing bureaucratic reform programs, increasing social security, empowerment of the people and natural disaster mitigation.
"The fourth thing is reinforcing pro-people programs through pro-poverty eradication steps and enhancement of employment," he said.
On the fifth priority, the president said that it included effort to improve the state expenditure quality through performance-based budgeting and a mid-term spending scheme.
He said that the other targets included maintaining the welfare of state apparatuses, increasing the mitigation and adaptation of climate change capacity, meeting educational budget based on the constitution and increasing budget allocation for researches and human resource capacity development.
"The nine target is to provide support for the Public Private Partnership activities," the president said.
In his address, the president indicated that the country`s revenues and grant were set at Rp1,292.9 trillion, or up 10.5 percent from the 2011 revised state budget at Rp1,169.9 trillion.
The state expenditures were set at Rp1,418.5 trillion, up 97.7 trillion or 7.4 percent from the 2011 revised state budget which was set at 1,320.8 trillion.
Thus, the draft state budget deficit for 2012 amounted to Rp125.6 trillion, or 1.5 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or lower than the deficit of the 2011 revised state budget which was set at Rp150.9 trillion.(*)
