Wednesday, May 12, 2010 08:38 WIB | National | | Viewed 107 time(s)Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked his ministers to design a working program with high precision.
"The President has asked the ministers to design a program with a high precision, as correctly and precisely as possible," finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said after a cabinet meeting to discuss the final 2011 government working plan (RKP) here on Tuesday. Sri Mulyani said the President had even asked the ministers to review the current programs. She said the President had also asked the ministers to optimize budget. She said the miniters were asked to seriously determine what they would need and what was available and what they could do so that there would be no reason for them to say that programs could not be carried out because of a lack of budget. Regarding the RKP for 2011, Mulyani said the global economy was projected to be still in the recovery process in terms of growth and trade. She said among the factors that need to be watched with regard to the formulation of RKP for 2011 were the crisis in Greece, withdrawal of global liquidity and oil price. After being perfected and finalized the RKP 2011 will be put in the presidential regulation on RKP for 2011 and submitted to the House of Representatives in the second week of this month. RKP 2011 will be used as a reference for drafting the 2011 national budget.Earlier at her office, Sri Mulyani said she planned to evaluate government consumption which dropped in the first quarter of 2010. According to the head of the National Bureau of Statistics, Rusman Heriawan, the government consumption dropped minus 8.8 percent to contribute minus 0.6 percent to the country`s economic growth in the first quarter. Mulyani said the drop was due to the lack of big government spending such as in the first quarter of 2009 with regard to general elections activities then.(*) COPYRIGHT © 2010 http://icaexpo.coop
