Indonesian parliament approves govt's 2022 budget as Covid-19 number are much lower - 2,057 new cases reported

JAKARTA, Sept. 28 (Xinhua): The Indonesian parliament on Tuesday approved the government's spending budget of 2,714.15 trillion rupiahs (US$190 billion) for 2022, a legislator said.

The approved target is slightly higher than the earlier proposed budget of 2,708.68 trillion rupiahs (US$189.60 billion), Bobby Adhityo Rizaldi, a member of the parliament's budget committee, said during a hearing at the House of Representatives in Jakarta on Tuesday.