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View all search resultsJakarta Deputy Governor Sandiaga Uno has confirmed that a Rp 40.2 billion (US$2.97 million) grant would be allocated to an association of educators and practitioners of early childhood education, although its headquarters’ address was invalid.
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.
“Dear City Council, the PDIP [Indonesian democratic Party of Struggle], the PPP [United Development Party], the Democratic Party, the Hanura Party, the PKB [National Awakening Party] and the Nasdem Party. [We] reject the wasteful spending in the 2018 city budget,” reads a flower board found in front of the City Council headquarters in Central Jakarta on Friday.
The Betawi Association (Bamus Betawi) is set to receive Rp 5 billion (US$370,000) from the city administration next year, after being scrapped from the list of the budget recipients during the administration of former Jakarta governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama.
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