Pemerintah memperkirakan defisit RAPBN 2008 mencapai Rp75 triliun, atau 1,7 persen terhadap Produk Domestik Bruto PDB, meningkat 21 persen dibanding perkiraan defisit anggaran dalam RAPBN-P tahun 2007.
The Indonesian government expects its 2008 state budget to suffer a deficit of Rp75 trillion or 1.7 percent of the country's gross domestic product GDP, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said.