Indonesia's Parliament approves 2023 budget amid price pressure


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JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Indonesian lawmakers gave the official nod to the 2023 state budget that seeks to shrink the deficit to less than 3 per cent of gross domestic product despite rising threat of inflation.

Parliament passed the budget into law in a plenary meeting on Thursday, endorsing a record spending of 3.06 quadrillion rupiah (US$200 billion) next year to sustain growth set at 5.3 per cent.

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