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Jakarta legislative council speeds up revised budget deliberation ahead of term-end
The City Council and the administration are conducting back-to-back deliberation meetings to have the 2019 revised budget endorsed before the councillors’ term ends on Aug. 26. The new elected councilors for the next five-year term will be inaugurated that day.
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Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and members of the Jakarta City Council join a special plenary meeting to celebrate Jakarta's 492nd anniversary on June 22. (Antara/Nova Wahyudi)
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s their five-year term is coming to an end, sitting Jakarta legislative councilors are speeding up the deliberation of the 2019 revised budget proposed by the Jakarta administration to fund projects for the remaining year.
The City Council and the administration are conducting back-to-back deliberation meetings to have the 2019 revised budget endorsed before the councillors’ term ends on Aug. 26. The new elected councilors for the next five-year term will be inaugurated that day.
The city administration has proposed to the council the revised budget of Rp 86.89 trillion (US$6.09 billion), down 2.37 percent from Rp 89 trillion set in the 2019 City Budget.
The proposed budget is aimed at improving services to the public, as well as accelerate targets of the city's mid-term development plan, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said in his speech in a plenary meeting on Monday.
“The decrease applies for forecasted activities that cannot be completed this year on the back of technical or administrative issues, adjustments to multiyear projects and programs to be financed by the central government,” he said.
In the proposed revised budget, the city scraps several budget items, including the continuation of the long-delayed traffic restriction policy called electronic road pricing.
Due to its failed tender, the Attorney’s General Office in July issued legal recommendations to the city administration to cancel the tender and open a new one for next year. The administration officially cancelled the tender on Aug. 1.
