Additional budget set at Rp 248.5 m

Additional budget set at Rp 248.5 m

JAKARTA: The city administration has submitted its budget
revision for 2005 to the City Council and asked city councillors
to approve additional funding of Rp 248.5 billion (US$24.13
million) for this year.

The city's 2005 budget stands at Rp 14.01 trillion.

Head of the city development planning Achmad Harjadi said on
Friday that the funds would be used for various sectors.

He said that the health and education sectors, for example,
would get an additional budget allocation of Rp 16.1 million,
which will be used to prepare the city Science and Math Olympiad,
used for the polio vaccination drive and the construction of the
Jakarta Nursing Academy building.

Meanwhile, the natural resources and environment sectors would
get Rp 50.5 billion, to be used for for technical items related
to the two new busway corridors and land acquisition for waste
treatment projects in Marunda.

Meanwhile, for the city infrastructure sector, the city
proposed Rp 8.9 billion for flood mitigation along busway
corridors II and III, a road lighting project and pedestrian
bridge project on Jl. Thamrin, Central Jakarta. --JP