House Approves Draft 2013 Revised State Budget

Jakarta (Antara) - The House of Representatives finally approved Draft 2013 Revised State Budget through voting in its plenary session here on Monday night. In the voting, of the 519 House members who attended the plenary session, 338 members supported the government's proposed draft revised state budget and 181 rejected it. House Speaker Marzuki Alie who chaired the plenary, said with result of the voting, the House decided to enact into the law the bill of Draft 2013 Revised State Budget. House members who accepted the draft revised state budget came from five factions of the the Democratic Party, the Golkar Party, the National Mandate party (PAN) the United Development Party (PPP) and the National Awakening Party (PKB). House members who rejected the draft came from four House factions of the Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) and the People's Conscience Party (Hanura). (*)