MPR annual session to cost Rp 20b

MPR annual session to cost Rp 20b

JAKARTA: This year's annual session of the People's
Consultative Assembly (MPR) scheduled for August, which is
expected to approve the final phase of amendments to the 1945
Constitution, will cost around Rp 20 billion, a senior legislator
said on Thursday.

Alihardi Kiai Demak, a member of the MPR's ad hoc committee,
said the huge amount of money would be used to finance the
holding of the 12-day annual session.

However, he said the assembly would try to cut short the
session's timetable in order to economize.

Alihardi did not specify what the money would be used for
exactly.

He said all 700 members of the assembly are expected to attend
the annual session and will stay in the Hotel Mulia Senayan,
around 100 meters from the MPR and House of Representatives.
--Antara