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City Council speaker calls for scrapping of Rp 620 million pond renovation budget
City Council Speaker Prasetio Edi Marsudi has demanded that the budget team scrap Rp 620 million (US$45,888) in the draft 2018 city budget allocated for the renovation of a pond in the City Council complex.
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Fish swim in a pond fountain at the City Council complex in Central Jakarta on Nov. 21. (kompas.com/Jessi Carina)
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ity Council Speaker Prasetio Edi Marsudi has demanded that the regional budget team (TAPD) scrap Rp 620 million (US$45,888) in the draft 2018 city budget allocated for the renovation of a pond in the City Council complex.
“I demand that the TAPD [regional budget team] scrap the Rp 620 million because I never asked for that,” he said during a meeting with the budget committee at the council building in Central Jakarta as quoted by kompas.com.
Previously, the council's deputy speaker, Muhammad Taufik, said that the council members needed to evaluate the draft 2018 regional budget (R-APBD), including the budget for the working visit, which amounts to Rp 107.7 billion (US$7.9 million) for more than 7,000 people, as well as the budget of Rp 620 million for the pond fountain.
“We would possibly evaluate the working visit budget, which I think was a bit miscalculated,” he said.
City secretary Saefullah said the council needed to approve the R-APBD, which amounted to up to Rp 77.1 trillion, before Nov. 30 and that, based on Government Regulation No. 12/2017 on the the regional administration’s development and supervision, top officials from the administration and council members would not receive their salaries if they failed to do so.
“The Home Ministry is going to evaluate the budget in December. If the city administration is late to submit it, the six-month sanction will be applied. So the budget deliberation must finish in November,” he said, adding that the council members would also receive the sanction. (ecn)
