City administration proposes 5.8% rise in 1995-96 budget
City administration proposes 5.8% rise in 1995-96 budget
JAKARTA (JP): The city administration proposed to the City Council a 5.8 percent increase in the city's budget for the 1995/1996 fiscal year to Rp 2.21 trillion (about US$1 billion).
Governor Surjadi Soedirdja said in a plenary session yesterday that the city budget in the current 1994/95 fiscal year, which will end next month, amounts to Rp 2.09 trillion.
The governor stated that there are various factors making the increase necessary, such as the rise in civil servants' salaries which will increase the city's routine expenses.
Surjadi said for the routine budget the administration plans to allocate Rp 1.26 trillion, 10.4 percent more than the previous year's Rp 1.14 trillion.
He explained that the increase is due to the 10 percent increase in civil servants' salaries. The routine budget will also cover maintenance and requisitions.
For the development budget the administration plans to allocate Rp 949.9 billion, an increase of 0.18 percent from the 1995/1994 fiscal year's Rp 948 billion.
Surjadi said the increase is calculated from various revenues estimated at Rp 2.1 trillion, such as regional revenues, contributions from the central government, tax sharing and the balance carried over from last year.
The governor said the city administration estimates that in the upcoming fiscal year regional revenues will be 22.5 percent higher than last year's, an increase from Rp 1.16 trillion to Rp 1.42 trillion.
Regional revenues consist of regional taxes estimated to reach Rp 1.13 trillion, regional fees of Rp 181.45 billion, profits from city-owned companies worth Rp 34.76 billion, city offices revenues Rp 6.54 billion and other revenues estimated to reach Rp 61.22 billion.
Surjadi said regional taxes and fees consist of vehicle tax, vehicle ownership transfer tax, entertainment tax, development tax, advertisement tax, city planning and development supervision fees.
"Revenues from regional fees and taxes will be more due to the increase in taxes, tariff adjustments, the increase of the Gross National Product, the intensification of tax collection and the increase of supervision on the imposition of taxes," Surjadi said as reported by Antara news agency.
The governor said the city administration will return 10 percent (Rp 17.2 billion) of revenues from property taxes to 265 subdistricts in the city for the subdistricts' budgets.
Development
Surjadi said there are 20 sectors included in the development budget. The city plans to spend Rp 175.99 billion for regional development and housing relocation sectors, Rp 162.34 billion for government employees and supervision of taxes, Rp 160.34 billion for transportation and Rp 139.67 billion for housing.
Trade, development of city-owned companies, city finance and cooperation will be allotted Rp 53.61 billion, while Rp 53.81 billion will be for education and sports.
The city will allocate Rp 44.96 billion for health, social welfare, women, children and youth affairs, with Rp 42.86 billion earmarked for population and family planning affairs.
For the tourism and city telecommunications sectors the administration will allocate Rp 17.63 billion, for security and public order Rp 23.28 billion, politics and press Rp 14.45 billion and Rp 14.35 billion for the religious sector.
The water and irrigation sectors will get Rp 13.32 billion, environment and city planning Rp 8.59 billion, the workforce sector Rp 5.71 billion, law development Rp 3.75 billion, and Rp 7.89 billion for agriculture and forestry.
The industrial sector will be allocated 2.43 billion, and the mining and energy sectors Rp 2.45 billion which will be used to build 175 water catchments and 15-meter deep wells in under- developed villages. (yns)