The delayed budget speech

The delayed budget speech

Submitting the draft state budget each year (to the House of
Representatives) is a routine task of the incumbent government.
Preparing the draft is, therefore, a routine task of the members
of the outgoing Abdurrahman Cabinet.

Consequently, despite changes at the top of the
administration, all the ministers responsible for preparing the
draft should be working as usual. Apart from the fact that this
is not a substantial policy decision, the job could be done by
bureaucrats under the coordination of the caretaker ministers
responsible.

The delay, therefore, is an indication of the lack of
coordination among the officials -- from ministers down --
responsible for preparing the draft. Or it could indicate a
declining concern among those officials after the departure of
their "boss", President Abdurrahman.

-- Bisnis Indonesia, Jakarta