Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Ask Kemhan Additional Funds for Apache Helicopter


Commission I can receive an explanation about the Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro Kemhan 2014 indicative ceiling of Rp 80.497.980.000.000 (eighty billion four hundred and ninety-seven billion, nine hundred and eighty million dollars.) 

"Commission I also can accept the proposed budget submitted additional Kemhan / Army of Rp 8,730,522,000,000," said Chairman of Commission I Mahfudz Siddiq, I tell you the results of the meeting with the Defence Minister and the Commission TNI Commander discusses changes in Budget 2013 and the 2014 Proposed Budget is to be closed, Monday, June 10, 2013.
Mahfouz was explained, the Ministry of Defense also filed a supplemental budget for the procurement of weapons and their Apache attack helicopters and transport aircraft C-130 Hercules former Royal Australian Air Force is Rp. 6 trillion, which comes on top of funds or loans from abroad.
"If Hercules aircraft itself from Australia in the form of grants, a total of six units of Australia. But this is still to be discussed in depth in a separate meeting later on, if the use of funds on top for the purposes of this can be met," he said.
While, for aircraft purchase plan of U.S. Apache assault by the Army, said Mahfouz, will still need to be explored also with Chief of Army Staff.
"The issue of how the number of units to be purchased, new or used and what are the specs like, in that meeting have not been discussed. Was to be discussed further later, if the proposed use on top of his budget approved," he explained.
Mahfouz said, was previously informally the Army plans to buy Apache attack helicopters, but hampered by a matter of funding sources. Because the Ministry of Finance requested the purchase of Apache's budget taken from the budget of the army itself.
"The Army Apache mind if shopping for it using the regular budget of the army itself, because obviously be very costly to finance regular budget. Because they proposed in 2014, the procurement of Apache source of funds on top. Hercules Air Force procurement Also, the same source of funding of funds on top, which is still very large, which is still lingering around Rp 30 trillion, the allocation of funds on top of around Rp 50 trillion from 2010 to 2014, "he said. 

Sources: http://www.artileri.org/2013/06/kemhan-ajukan-tambahan-dana-helikopter-apache.html

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