Games budget set at Rp 101b<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): SEA Games consortium chairman Bambang
\nTrihatmodjo said yesterday the budget for the Games would not
\nincrease again.<\/p>\n
At the Senayan shooting range, Bambang said: "I'm afraid we
\ncannot tolerate any more reassessments. It's been very hard to
\nmeet the Rp 101 billion (US$42.1 million) budget."<\/p>\n
Bambang said the Games budget could not be compared to the Rp
\n2 trillion budget of the last Games in Chiang Mai, Thailand.<\/p>\n
"We'll do our best to provide funds as needed by the
\norganizers," he said.<\/p>\n
The consortium has already handed over Rp 30 billion of the
\nbudget to organizers to help prepare facilities for the Games
\nhere in October and train the national team.<\/p>\n
The consortium initially offered the organizers Rp 35 billion
\nto stage the event. But the organizers soon requested more,
\nraising their budget to Rp 95 billion in January and to Rp 101
\nbillion last week.<\/p>\n
The budget excludes the cost of training the national team.<\/p>\n
Bambang said the consortium had printed stickers three months
\nago requiring the public to pay fees for the Games on some bills.<\/p>\n
Last month, fake stickers were found in East Java.<\/p>\n
"If those stickers are phony, they didn't come from us," he
\nsaid. "It's not really a problem because we are yet to distribute
\nthe stickers."<\/p>\n
Bambang said that collections from the stickers would not
\nburden society.<\/p>\n
"We are not targeting the stickers at poor people," he said.<\/p>\n
Bambang promised to give the public a clear explanation about
\ncompulsory fund raising for the Games.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Social Services has stopped the distribution
\nof phony stickers in East Java.<\/p>\n
The consortium plans to distribute 17,750,000 stickers.
\nSixteen million of these will require payments of Rp 1,000 each
\nand 1,750,000 stickers will require between Rp 2,500 and Rp
\n50,000 each.<\/p>\n
The National Sports Council Wismoyo Arismunandar said
\nyesterday that he hoped Indonesia's shooters would stop Thailand
\nscooping the medals on the range at the next Games.<\/p>\n
Antara reported that Indonesia planned to win five shooting
\ngold medals at the Games.<\/p>\n
Indonesia only won two golds, three silvers and three bronzes
\nin shooting at the last Games, while Thailand grabbed 19 golds,
\n12 silvers and seven bronzes. (yan)<\/p>",
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