RI`s budget surplus reaches Rp17 T

Indonesia`s budget surplus in the first nine months of 2007 ended Oct. 31 reached Rp17.6 trillion, a minister said.

State revenues stood at Rp524.3 trillion and state expenditures at Rp506.6 trillion, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said at a working meeting with a Regional Representatives Council (DPD)`s ad hoc committee here Tuesday.

The state receipts and expenditures respectively represented 75.5 percent and 67.3 percent of the target set in the revised 2007 state budget, she said.

"Tax receipts have reached 76.8 percent of the target and non-tax state revenues 73.5 percent of the target," she said.