Namun dalam laporan realisasi semester I 2008, pemerintah memperkirakan defisit APBN 2008 akan mencapai 1,9 persen atau nominalnya sebesar Rp90,6 triliun.
But in its semester one report of 2008, the government predicted that the deficit of the 2008 state budget would reach 1.9 percent or Rp90.6 trillion.