TEMPO.CO, Bandung - Deputy Minister of Finance Mardiasmo said that the Ministry had sent a circular letter to regional governments on budget absorption of regional governments.
"We have sent a circular letter to several regional governments, reminding them that it’s already half of the year already,” Mardiasmo said in Bandung on Friday (7/8).
He also said that the central government had prepared a number of sanctions for regional governments whose budget absorption is still low.
He added that one of the sanctions prepared is in the form of the reduction of regional transfer funds. "Next year, we are going to take into account cutting transfer funds to the region,” he added.
AHMAD FIKRI