Jakarta, ID
Tuesday, May 29 2012, 08:12 AM

Jakarta

Jakarta to propose Rp 27.95 trillion for 2011 budget

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Top officials of the Jakarta administration announced Wednesday they would proposed Rp 27.95 trillion (US$3.1 billion) to the City Council for 2011 city budget .

Governor Fauzi Bowo said the proposed budget would see an increase of 5 percent from the 2010 revised budget.

“Education will still take the lion share of the budget. We propose over Rp 1 trillion for the education operational aid (BOP) alone,” he said on Wednesday.

This year, education gets some 27 percent of Rp 26.7 trillion of revised budget.