Basuki: Agencies' Budgets Rife with Inefficiencies, Manipulations

Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama wants to eliminate direct appointment of contractors in the procurement of small goods and services, in the capital's fight against inefficiencies, budget manipulation and markups.
The governor has met with staff throughout the past week to discuss budget proposals from the city's agencies and found they were rife with unnecessary spending.
Basuki also found that the agencies were proposing a large number of low-value projects which, by law, do not have to be put out to tender. But the small projects were not urgently required and add up to billions of rupiah.