Many Uses of Budget Not Efficient: Analysts

Padangekspres.net-Observers of Finance and Development from the University of Andalas (Unand) Padang Dr Hefrizal Handra many budget utilization rate in the state budget and regional budgets are not efficient due to several factors. 

It can be seen on the habits of local governments are competing to implement the program in the third quarter or the end of the year, giving the impression of only spending budget without considering the effectiveness of the program, he said in Padang on Friday. 

Hefrizal delivered it when appearing as a speaker on Budget Transparency discussion entitled "Questioning the Center on Budget Leakage Areas" held the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) Padang. 

According to him, the pattern is clearly not effective for all local governments in implementing the program at the same time making it difficult to achieve the target. 

The condition is exacerbated by some areas that have resulted in overstaffed and sucked the budget just to pay their salaries, and very few are used for community-related programs, he said. 

He said that, if an employee of an area too much of the expenditure budget to swell while their performance is not optimal. 

Later, during the time in the nomination of the government''s development program has always held a consensus development plan (musrenbang) in order to gather public input. 
But it was nothing more than a formality and the proposals that go on musrenbang still not be accommodated so that implementation is in vain, he said. 

In another part he says, an estimated 30 percent of the budget on the budget and budget experience leakage of expenditure directly attributable to the bureaucratic system that has not been effective and efficient. 

The condition is exacerbated by the political aspects that are too dominant due to uncertain political party funding, he said. 

He said that, it is common knowledge of each political party has a target to raise funds through membership in the legislature. 

Later, it was also done by a cadre of those who served as minister of the access program in the ministry. (* / sun)