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Mon, 06/23/2008 - 15:31
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HOUSE ASKS GOVT TO RAISE BUDGET FOR MARITIME SECTOR BY 100 PCT
Jakarta, June 23 (ANTARA) - The House of Representatives (DPR) through its Commission IV on agriculture and fisheries asked the government to raise the ceiling of the budget for the Maritime and Fisheries Ministry (DKP) by 100 percent because the country's maritime territory was wider than its land territory and had bigger potentials, a legislator said.
"It (the Ministry) must propose a budget ceiling increase by 100 percent to Rp6 trillion. The maritime and agriculture sectors in Indonesia have high potentials so that the budget for these two sectors must also be high," Yakobus Mayongpadang, a member of Commission IV, said in a hearing with the DKP minister here on Monday.
He said the two sectors must be given greater attention than others because the life of most of the Indonesian poor depended on these sectors.
Besides, the country's water areas are wider than those of its land.
Mayongpadang said that the government had set a budget at Rp3.27 trillion for the DKP sector for 2009, a figure which was not too far from its budget a year earlier.
If there is no change in the amount of budget for the DKP sector, there would neither be a change in the DKP development in the coming 10 to 20 years, he said.
"It (the Ministry) must propose a budget ceiling increase by 100 percent to Rp6 trillion. The maritime and agriculture sectors in Indonesia have high potentials so that the budget for these two sectors must also be high," Yakobus Mayongpadang, a member of Commission IV, said in a hearing with the DKP minister here on Monday.
He said the two sectors must be given greater attention than others because the life of most of the Indonesian poor depended on these sectors.
Besides, the country's water areas are wider than those of its land.
Mayongpadang said that the government had set a budget at Rp3.27 trillion for the DKP sector for 2009, a figure which was not too far from its budget a year earlier.
If there is no change in the amount of budget for the DKP sector, there would neither be a change in the DKP development in the coming 10 to 20 years, he said.
