Local Budget Rp 49.9 T Approved, Society Must Come Monitoring

Jakarta - Jakarta regional budget worth Rp 49.9 trillion in 2013 officially approved in the plenary session of City Council, Monday (01/28/2013) yesterday. Coordinator and Political Corruption Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), Abdullah Dahlan, assess the implementation of the budget of this administration that needs to take part of the supervisory role.

"By looking at the magnitude of Local Budget must also be more rigorous oversight and no element of citizen participation," said researcher ICW, Abdullah Dahlan, told AFP on Tuesday (28/01/2012).

According to him, this oversight is a prerequisite of participation is the guarantee of participation itself, the way the city administration had to open up the existing budget or policy that has been approved.
"For example, the city government budget allocation policy documents open to the village level, so if this is done will know how much and what budget allocation is in every village," he explained.
"So if people know the budgetary policy of citizen participation in monitoring will emerge," he added.
Dahlan said, the actual process of citizen participation or community not only on the dimensions of supervision, even should start to be involved when the budget planning process done. It is important to ensure that no irregularities in the implementation of the budget.
"Before the budget was passed, it is important for the Council to consult the community first to correctly answer that budget policy will need a broader public administration and not the interests of a group of the arena alone," he said.
"It means that public participation should start planning, budgeting and execution of the budget," said Dahlan.
As is known, the Local Budget 2013 finally diketok with a value of Rp 49.9 trillion, up from Rp 3.1 trillion in the 2012 budget of Rp 46.8 trillion. Reading of Local Budget approval by City Council Vice Chairman Lulung Lunggana.
"I will present the results of the discussion and the formulation of the budget agency to draft regulations about the Jakarta regional budget fiscal year 2013. Draft 2013 budget of Rp 49,979,889,632,000," he said in a plenary session Lulung endorsement Local Budget 2013 in Parliament Building, Jl Kebon Sirih , Central Jakarta, Monday (28/1) yesterday.
Sources: http://news.detik.com/read/2013/01/29/075047/2154773/10/