Paskah di Jakarta, Rabu, mengatakan bahwa pinjaman murah tersebut tetap dibutuhkan Indonesia untuk menutup defisit anggaran 2007 yang mencapai 1,54 persen dari PDB atau Rp58,285 triliun selain melalui penerbitan obligasi negara.
Paskah said in Jakarta on Wednesday that Indonesia was still in need of concessional loans to cover its 2007 budget deficit which had reached 1.54 percent of the country's GDP, or Rp58.285 trillion, besides issuing state bonds.