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GOVT NOT TO TOLERATE MISAPPROPRIATION OF BUDGET: PRESIDENT
Jakarta, Aug 22 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the government will never tolerate misappropriation of the state budget (APBN) and regional budget (APBD), arguing the budgets are the public funds that must be used to the greatest benefit of the people's interest and welfare.
"We must ensure that the enormous budget will not be followed by the increasing cases of misappropriation, mismanagement, much less corruption in regions," the president said in his address on the government's explanations on regional development policies at the plenary session of the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) here on Friday.
The amount of budget funds transferred to regions in the revised 2008 state budget more than doubled to Rp292.4 trillion in 2008 from Rp129.7 trillion in 2004, he said.
Thus, the amount of budget funds transferred and allocated by the central government to regions accounted for 65 percent of the 2008 state budget, he said.
The government was committed to maintaining a great chunk of budget allocations for the regions as a manifestation of its resolve to implement decentralization and autonomy in a consistent and responsible way, he said.
"Indeed, the budget allocations (for the regions) must follow their functions and responsibilities. The greater the responsibilities delegated to the regions the greater the amount of budget alocated to them," he said.
The head of state said the budget allocations for the regions would be used to finance the programs and activities that become their authority.
Part of the huge budget would also be used to assist low-income people and finance poverty eradication programs, he said.
Therefore, he said, the government needed to remind the regions that they now served as the spearhead of development.
"It is now the regions which stand in the frontline to improve the people's standards of living. The enormous budget allocated to the regions must be followed by their competence and full responsibility to manage it properly and transparently for the benefit of the people's prosperity and welfare," he said.
"We must ensure that the enormous budget will not be followed by the increasing cases of misappropriation, mismanagement, much less corruption in regions," the president said in his address on the government's explanations on regional development policies at the plenary session of the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) here on Friday.
The amount of budget funds transferred to regions in the revised 2008 state budget more than doubled to Rp292.4 trillion in 2008 from Rp129.7 trillion in 2004, he said.
Thus, the amount of budget funds transferred and allocated by the central government to regions accounted for 65 percent of the 2008 state budget, he said.
The government was committed to maintaining a great chunk of budget allocations for the regions as a manifestation of its resolve to implement decentralization and autonomy in a consistent and responsible way, he said.
"Indeed, the budget allocations (for the regions) must follow their functions and responsibilities. The greater the responsibilities delegated to the regions the greater the amount of budget alocated to them," he said.
The head of state said the budget allocations for the regions would be used to finance the programs and activities that become their authority.
Part of the huge budget would also be used to assist low-income people and finance poverty eradication programs, he said.
Therefore, he said, the government needed to remind the regions that they now served as the spearhead of development.
"It is now the regions which stand in the frontline to improve the people's standards of living. The enormous budget allocated to the regions must be followed by their competence and full responsibility to manage it properly and transparently for the benefit of the people's prosperity and welfare," he said.
