Adi Ahdiat, Jakarta – The government has completed the next year’s draft budget for ministries and state institutions. The budget is set out in the government’s 2020 Macroeconomic Projection and Draft Fiscal Policy (KEM-PPKF) document which was released by the Ministry of Finance in May.

Political observer Faisal Basri has criticised the use of state foreign debt which according to the government narrative is being used to spur infrastructure development.

Yet according to the data he has gathered, most of the government’s foreign debt is being spent on the civil service.

Antara, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo says that the drafting of budgets at both the ministries, state institutions and regional bodies focus more on supporting activities rather than core activities.

Man: An amnesty... Mr it sounds to me like it'll reduce me to poverty

Kid: He's confused

Kid: Again, and again and again...

Sign reads 'Welcome Tax Embezzlers', carpet reads 'Tax Amnesty'

As the government struggles to boost tax revenues amid a slump in commodity prices and tax officials all too willing to fix a company's tax in return for a bribe (Suap), revelations that at least two high profile figures, Supreme Audit Agency head Harry Azhar Aziz and Security Chief Luhut Pandjaitan are among 800 Indonesians listed in the Panama

Lani Pujiastuti, Bogor – Currently there are 10,922 companies holding Mining Business Permits (IUPs) in Indonesia. Of this total, only 29 percent pay tax.

Fiki Ariyanti, Jakarta – Forbes magazine has again released a list of the richest people in the world, including from Indonesia. There are 50 Indonesian conglomerates included in the list, old faces as well as new.

With the emergence of this bourgeois in Indonesia, can the government push for more tax revenue from these people?

Smart people (find it hard to) pay tax – a campaign slogan to encourage people to pay tax. Sign reads ‘Tax collection service’.