State Revenue and Expenditure (Budget) for 2013 is considered to have failed to be able to decrease poverty in Indonesia.

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State Revenue and Expenditure (Budget) for 2013 is considered to have failed to be able to decrease poverty in Indonesia.



State Revenue and Expenditure (Budget) for 2013 is considered to have failed to be able to decrease poverty in Indonesia. Therefore, Indonesia is still conventional posture and budget allocations only in certain areas.

National Council secretariat Indonesia Forum for Budget Transparency (Fitra) Ahmad Erani Yustika explain the allocation of the state budget has not changed since the first. So it just forget about the poverty reduction target.

"2012 budget failed to lower the poverty rate. Allocations reason there-there. Likewise with the 2013 state budget," said Erani office during a press conference in Jakarta, Friday (04/01/2013).

According Erani, since the last five years, the state budget Indonesia has budgeted funds for poverty alleviation of Rp 460 trillion. However, based on figures Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the poverty rate in Indonesia until September 2012 fell only 0.3 percent. In fact, Erani also considered that the poverty rate from 2002 to 2012 only fell 6 percent. So that the average decline in the poverty rate in Indonesia society only about 0.6-0.7 percent per year.

"That figure is less when compared to Vietnam," he added.

In the same period, namely in 2002 and 2012, the Vietnamese government managed to cut the poverty rate from 29.5 percent in 2002 to only 11 percent in 2012. This means that in 10 years there is a decline in poverty of 18.5 percent or 1.85 percent per year.

Under these conditions, the government should change the budget posture especially in job creation. Therefore, flushing budget for job creation is still minimal. This was evidenced by the government is only able to create 1.625 million new jobs in 2011.

That is because of every 1 percent increase in economic growth was only able to absorb 250 thousand workers. While in 2012, employment actually declined to only 180 thousand workers, despite economic growth in Indonesia became the second highest in Asia after China.

"Quality budget allocation should be guarded and better allocated. Enjoyable targets government figures such as poverty reduction, employment equity to the income distribution can be maintained," he added.