Contents of this page

• Background and process
• Government's budget proposal & our commentary
• Debate in Parliamentary Plenary
• Budget approved and promulgated
• Documents
• Analyses
• Links

Konteúdu pájina ida ne’e

• Antesedente no prosesu
• Proposta Governu nian ho ami-nia komentariu
• Debate iha Plenariu Parlamentar
• Orsamentu aprova no promulga tiha ona
• Dokumentu
• Analiza
• Ligasaun

Background and process

The Government normally presents the annual budget to Parliament by 15 October. However, because a new Government was formed, that date does not apply for the 2013 budget. The budget was Council of Ministers approved the budget envelope in November and the budget itself on 10 December, sending it to Parliament a week later. Parliament will debate, amend and enact it in January and February 2013. Until the new budget is promulgated, state operations during the first months of 2013 will be financed under the "duo-decimal regime" described in Article 31 of the Budget and Financial Management Law, based on the mid-year budget rectification law passed in September.

In November and December, Parliament's committees and plenary received and discussed reports from the Government and Court of Appeals and other information (including Deloitte's audits of procurement practices in many agencies) on state finances during 2011. Committee C's report, adopted unanimously, includes many recommendations applicable to the 2013 budget.

On 17 December, Jornal Nacional Diario reported that Secretary of State for Parliamentary Issues Terezinha Viegas said that the Government's budget proposal will be $1,797,519,000 (the headline was off by a factor of 1,000). The Ministry of Finance did not begin to publish  the budget books on its website until 17 January, but La'o Hamutuk made them available on this page at the beginning of 2013.

The proposed budget law (also Portuguese) was presented to Parliament on 18 December, together with an explanatory memorandum (also Portuguese) and a justification (also Portuguese) for withdrawing more than the Estimated Sustainable Income from the Petroleum Fund once again.

Committee C announced its schedule of hearings and other activities relating to the 2013 State Budget, and a few days later, Parliament released the schedules for every committee's budget-related processes.

On 9 January 2013, Parliament held an all-day seminar on the budget, including a presentation by La'o Hamutuk on energy policy (Tetum).

La'o Hamutuk testified to Parliament Committee C (finances) on 14 January and to Committee D (economy) on 18 January, also presenting a written submission and a later comment on the Agriculture Budget.

On 25 January, La'o Hamutuk briefed more than 40 people from civil society and universities. Download an English translation of the presentation as a Powerpoint or PDF (4 MB each).

Antesedente no prosesu

Governu bai-bain aprezenta orsamentu anual ba tinan tuir mai ba Parlamentu iha 15 Outubru. Maske nune'e, tanba Governu foun foin mak forma iha tinan ida ne'e, data ne'e la aplika ba orsamentu 2013. Konsellu Ministru aprova ona OJE 2013 iha fulan Dezembru, no proposta sei ba Parlamentu Nasional durante semana terseiru fulan ida ne'e. Parlamentu sei debate, altera no aprova iha Janeiru no Fevereiru 2013. Molok OJE foun hetan promulgasaun, operasaun estadu durante fulan primeiru 2013 sei finansia tuir "rejimu duo-decimal" ne'ebe deskreve iha Artigu 31 Lei Orsamentu no Jestaun Finanseiru (Port.), bazeia ba Orsamentu Retifikativu aprova ona iha fulan Setembru.

Durante fulan Novembru no Dezembru, Komisaun sira iha Parlamentu Nasionál, no mós plenária, simu no diskute relatóriu husi Governu no Tribunal Rekursu, no mós informasaun seluk (inklui relatóriu sira husi Deloitte kona ba aprovizionamentu iha ajénsia balun) kona ba finansas estadu nian durante 2011. Relatóriu husi Komisaun C hatán aprovasaun ho unanimidade, iha rekomendasaun balun bele aplika ba OGE 2013.

Iha loron 17 Dezembru, Diario Nasionál fó sai katak OJE 2012 sei iha montante $1.797 biliaun, hanesan iha artigu iha liman los.

Komisaun C Parlamentu Nasional fo sai nia kalendariu ba audiensia publiku no atividade sira seluk kona-ba OJE 2013, no loron balu tuir mai, Parlamentu publiku kalendariu husi komisaun hotu.

Iha loron 9 Janeiru 2013, Parlamentu organiza seminariu kona ba OJE 2013, ho aprezentasaun ida husi La'o Hamutuk kona-ba politika enerjetika.

La'o Hamutuk ko’alia iha audiénsia públiku iha Komisaun C (finansas) Parlamentu iha loron 14 Janeiru no ba Komisaun D (ekonomia) iha loron 18 Janeiru, no mós fó submisaun, no orsida fo komentariu kona ba orsamentu ba agrikultura.

Iha loron 25 Janeiru, La'o Hamutuk fó aprezentasaun ba ema na’in 40 husi sosiedade sivíl no universidade. Bele download aprezentasaun ne'e hanesan Powerpoint ka PDF (ida-ida 4 MB).

Government Budget Proposal

Note: smaller graphics in this part of the web page describe the budget as Government proposed it to Parliament.  See below for graphics and other information on the final version approved by Parliament and Promulgated by the President of the Republic.

The first specific information was made public in a Government press release summarizing the 10 December meeting of the Council of Ministers which approved the proposed 2013 General State Budget law. $1,798 million in expenditures will be broken down as follows:

• $160.257 million for Salaries and Wages

• $461.744 million for Goods and Services
  (including $42.448 million through the Human Capital Development Fund, $8.549 million of which is carried over from 2012)

• $236.473 million for Public Transfers

• $  47.150 million for Minor Capital

• $891.895 million for Development Capital
  (including $752.877 million through the Infrastructure Fund, $444.351 million of which is carried over from 2012, including $43.1 million in loans).

New appropriations and loans total $1,345 million, a significant and welcome reduction from rapidly escalating appropriations in recent years.

Proposta Orsamentu husi Governu

Avisu: Grafiku ki'ik iha parte iha ne'e kona-ba proposta orsamentu. Hare iha kraik atu hetan grafiku no informasaun kona-ba verzaun final.

Komunikadu imprensa (Portugés) husi Governu sumariza enkontru Konsellu Ministru iha loron 10 Dezembru, ne’ebé aprova proposta lei ba OJE 2013. Gastu ho montate tokon $1,797 inklui komponente tuir mai:

• tokon $160.257 ba Saláriu no Bensimentu

• tokon $461.744 ba Bens no servisu
  (inklui tokon $42.448 liu Fundu Dezenvolvimentu Kapitál Umanu, inklui tokon $8.549 "carryover" husi OJE 2012)

• tokon $236.473 ba Transferénsia Públiku

• tokon $ 47.150 ba Kapitál Menór

• tokon $891.895 ba Kapitál no Dezenvolvimentu
  (inklui tokon $752.877 liu Fundu Infrastrutura, inklui tokon $444.351 "carryover" husi OJE 2012).

Total dotasaun foun no emprestimu hamutuk tokon $1,345, redusaun ida ne’ebe boot ba dotasaun sira ne’ebe durante ne’e sa’e maka’as teb-tebes iha tinan balu foin dadak ne’e.

The graph at right (click to make it larger) shows that the total size of the 2013 budget is $1.8 billion, about the same as the final enacted 2012 budget. Executed expenditures during 2012 will probably be less than $1.4 billion, so this is still a significant increase in spending. (The methodology for calculating GDP changed in 2009, so earlier values are not comparable to later ones.)

The biggest change is on the revenue side. Instead of withdrawing $1.5 billion from the Petroleum Fund as was done in 2012, the 2013 budget will only withdraw $1.2 billion. This is 4.6% of Timor-Leste's anticipated petroleum wealth, more than the 3% Estimated Sustainable Income, although it is less unsustainable than the 6.7% the Government withdrew from the Petroleum Fund during 2012. La'o Hamutuk appreciates this move in the direction of fiscal responsibility and we hope it will continue.

Gráfiku iha liman karuk (Kliik atu halo boot) hatudu volume orsamentál 2013 ho tokon $1.8, maizumenus hanesan ho orsamentu final ne’ebé aprova iha 2012. Despeza ne’ebe ezekutadu durante 2012 provavelmente sei menus hosi biliaun $1.4, tanbe ne’e, ida ne’e nafatin nudar kresimentu gastu ida ne’ebe signifikante ida. (Metodolojia atu kalkula GDP muda ona iha 2009, nune’e valor GDP primeiru nian labele kompara ho valor GDP ida ne’ebe.)

Mudansa boot liu halo iha parte rendimentu. Duke foti biliaun $1.5 hosi Fundu hanesan halo iha 2012, iha OJE 2013 ne’e fot deit biliaun $1.2. Montante ne’e hanesan 4.6% hosi riku-soin petroliferu Timor-Leste nian ne’ebe antisipa, liu 3% husi Rendimentu Sustentável Estimativa, maske ida ne’e ladun la sustentável hanesan ho 6,7% ne’ebé Governu foti hasai husi Fundu Petróleu durante 2012. La’o Hamutuk apresia ba mudansa diresaun responsabilidade fiskál nian ida ne’e no ami espera katak mudansa ne’e sei kontinua.

Although Petroleum Fund withdrawals will be lower in 2013, the budget forecasts withdrawing more than double the ESI in all future years:

Maske iha 2013 osan ne’ebé hasai hosi Fundu Petróleu ne’e sei menus, maibé orsamentu estadu halo projesaun ba osan ne’ebé atu foti iha tinan tomak futuru nian sei liu dala-rua kompara ho nivel RSE.

The Petroleum Fund will fill about three-fourths of the $1.65 billion non-oil "budget deficit," and the rest will come from $410 million carried over from unspent money in the Infrastructure and Human Capital Development Funds at the end of 2012 and $44 million in loans. (The Government carried over only $132 million from 2011 into 2012, so this is a major increase.) During 2012, the Government deposited more than $700 million into the Infrastructure Fund, which was much too optimistic. Only about 14% of the non-electricity Infrastructure Fund allocations for 2012 had been spent by mid-December, with another 25% committed.

On the expenditure side of the 2013 State Budget, salaries and purchases of goods and services will go up significantly, with recurrent expenditures increasing 20% over the original 2012 budget. Public transfers (pensions, veterans' benefits, etc.) were increased in the October budget rectification and will continue at this higher level. Capital expenditure will get smaller, perhaps in recognition that some of the most unrealistic proposed projects will not benefit Timor-Leste or are impossible to implement on ambitious schedules.

Iha parte despeza nian iha OJE 2013, saláriu no atu sosa bens no servisu nian sei sa’e signifikamente, ho despeza rekorente nian sa’e 20% kompara ho OJE orijinál 2012 nian. Transferensia públiku (pensaun, benefísiu ba veteranu, no seluk tan) sa’e iha Orsamentu Rektifikativu iha Outubru 2012 no sei kontinua iha nivel as ida ne’e. Despeza kapital sei kiik liu, tanba rekonese katak iha projetu balu ne’ebe proposta ba barak liu la realistiku no labele fo benefisiu ba Timort-Leste ka imposivel atu implementa tuir orariu ne’ebe ambisiozu ne’e.

La'o Hamutuk prepared these two graphs based on Book 6 of the proposed 2013 Budget. They use executed expenditures during 2011 and 2012, and appropriations and projections for 2013-2017.

The Consolidated Fund of Timor-Leste (CFTL) includes all State activities not covered by the Infrastructure Fund, and totals $1,002 million in 2013. The original 2012 budget was $844m, and it was increased to $893m in the mid-year rectification. According to the Transparency Portal on 22 January, $790m of this had been spent, with another $50 million committed or obligated. If all these commitments are fulfilled, executed 2012 CFTL expenditures during 2012 will be 94% of the budgeted total. The proposed 2013 CFTL appropriation is 20% more than was executed during 2012.

Article 22.3(a) of the Budget and Financial Management Law says that the Budget should include "the total revenues foreseen by the Government, as well as the expenses and resulting balances for the next two years", that is 2014 and 2015. At first glance, the proposed budget documents appear to be even better, publishing revenue and expenditure estimates through 2017.  However, a closer examination shows that these are not meaningful projections. Budget books 4A and 4B include more than 600 pages of expenditure information on every agency, and each page lists about 40 expenditure items for the agency it describes. The four columns from 2014-2017 contain about 100,000 numbers -- and every single one of them is exactly 4% higher than the corresponding number for the previous year.  Not only is this too simplistic -- it is not credible with anticipated 7.7% annual inflation and improving quality and coverage of state services. Expenditure forecasting requires more than a simple universal formula, and we hope that Government will take this seriously in the future.

The first pages of preliminary Budget Books 4 tabulate Consolidated Fund expenditures allocated by item, but the Budget Books do not include a table summarizing the amount for each ministry or agency. La'o Hamutuk has compiled the following table, showing the appropriation in thousands of US dollars for each organ in the mid-year 2012 budget and the proposed 2013 budget. Additional expenditures from the Infrastructure and Human Capital Development Funds are listed in Budget Book 6.

Artigu 22.3(a) Lei Orsamentál no Jestaun Finanseiru (Portuguese) hateten katak orsamentu tenke inklui “total rendimentu tenke ekspeta hosi Governu, no mós balansu hosi despeza no rezultadu ba tinan rua oin mai,” katak tinan 2014 no 2015. Hare kois de’it, dokumentu OJE ne’e hare ba di’ak liu, hodi publika estimasaun reseita no despeza to’o tinan 2017. Maske nune’e, bainhira hare kle’an liu buat sira ne’e la hatudu projesaun ida ne’ebé lójiku liu. Livru 4A no 4B inklui informasaun liu pájina 600 kona-ba kada ministériu no ajénsia estadu nia, no kada pájina lista maizumenus dotasaun despeza 40 ba ajénsia sira ne’e. Kolom hat hosi 2014-2017 ko’alia kona-ba númeru 100,000 – no kada hosi ne’e serteza katak sira nia kreximentu 4% kompara ho númeru sira iha tinan kotuk. Laos de’it katak ida ne’e simplistiku demais – la kredivel ho antisipa inflasaun annual 7.7% no hadi’ak kualidade no publikasaun servisu estadu nian. Atu halo projesaun ba despeza nian presiza buat barak liu duke halo formulasaun universal simples ida, no ami espera katak Governu sei foti asuntu ne’e ho sériu iha futuru.

Pajina sira primeiru hosi Livru 4 OJE preliminaria nian halo tabulsaun despeza Fundu Konsolidadu ne’ebe aloka tuir itens, maibe Livru OJE la inklui tabela sumariu nian kona-ba montanta ba kada ministeriu ka kada ajensia. La’o Hamutuk halo kompilasaun tabela tuir mai, hodi hatudu dotasaun iha rihun dollar Estadu Unidus ba kada orgaun iha rektifikativu 2012 no proposta OJE 2013. Despeza adisional hosi Fundu Infrastrutura ni Fundu Dezenvolvimentu Kapital Umanu lista iha Livru 6 OJE.

Debate in Parliamentary Plenary

At the conclusion of the Parliamentary hearings, Committee C compiled the reports of each Committee into a 92-page report (Portuguese original) including dozens of concerns and recommendations. The report was distributed and read when the Parliamentary plenary discussion opened on 4 February. Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, FRETILIN leader Mari Alkatiri, CNRT leader Natalino dos Santos (Tetum), PD leader Lurdes Bessa (Tetum) and FM made opening statements, beginning three days of discussion on the budget in generality. Following closing statements by FRETILIN, CNRT, PD and FM, general debate concluded at 5:30 pm on 6 February with a vote to approve the budget in general, with 40 in favor, none opposed and 25 abstentions (all members of the FRETILIN opposition party.) La'o Hamutuk blogged on this (with Committee C's recommendations) and the Government issued a press release.

This will be followed by two weeks of debate and amendments on each section of the budget, with a final vote on 20 February. On 7 February, MPs debated a draft resolution (Port. original) to form an ad hoc committee, including coalition and opposition MPs, to some of the controversies before they come up in the plenary. The final resolution (Port. original), adopted by consensus, gives this committee three days to collect, discuss and decide by consensus to present amendments to the plenary, where they will be voted without substantive discussion. This committee is meeting behind closed doors, and La'o Hamutuk, media and others have been refused permission to observe its discussions, a significant setback for transparency in the budget process.

The public relations department of Parliament issues a daily press release in Tetum summarizing Parliament's plenary discussions, as follows:

• General Debate:  4 Feb,  5 Feb,  6 Feb.

• Detailed debate:  7 Feb,  14 Feb,  15 Feb,  18 Feb.

After three days of secret meetings, the ad-hoc Committee submitted its proposed changes in the Budget Law (also Portuguese) to the Plenary on 14 February. The total budget will be $150 million smaller than the Government's December proposal, as shown in the table at right. The most significant changes are:

1. Reduce the Contingency Fund by $8 million, although this potential saving is reallocated to other expenditure lines.

2. Reduce generator fuel expenditures by $17 million, reallocating $15 million of this to road maintenance.

3. Reduce appropriations to the Infrastructure Fund by $150 million (see table at right). The largest cuts are:

• Electricity (cutting $50 million from $174 million originally proposed by Government)

• MDG housing and sanitation (cutting $42 million from $88 million proposed)

• Roads (cutting $29 million from $116 million proposed)

• Public buildings (cutting $8 million from $29 million proposed).

4. Apply $261 million of the cash balance in the treasury (which stood at $819 million at the end of 2012, largely because of excessive transfers from the Petroleum Fund, as shown in the graph above) instead of raising new revenue or additional transfers from the Petroleum Fund.

5. Reduce planned withdrawals from the Petroleum Fund during 2013 from $1,198 million to $787 million, the amount estimated as the sustainable income (ESI).

These are moves in the right direction, although we are disappointed that Parliamentarians were not told about the consequences of deferring infrastructure projects for future budgets. We also wish that the huge expenditure for the the Tasi Mane project had been reduced. It was untouched as a show of national unity for the negotiations with Woodside and Australia currently underway.

Other changes by the ad hoc committee, which are all being accepted by Parliament, include the following additions (all additions, including those above, total $43.3 million)

• $3.0m for PDID (small local infrastructure projects)
• $2.0m for PNTL Medals and district petty cash
• $2.0m for CNE subsidies for political parties
• $1.5m for the Los Palos - Lore Road (via the Infrastructure Fund)
• $1.3m for Atsabe and Maliana churches
• $1.0m for Special Economic Zones (ZEE)
• $1.0m for Parliamentary cars
• $1.0m for cooperatives
• $1.0m for Dili District Prosecutor
• $0.9m for rehabilitating Suai Prison
• $0.8m for the new Timor-Leste Cooperation Agency (foreign aid)
• $0.7m to build Dili District Court
• $0.6m for Metinaro ossuary
• $0.5m for CPLP Economic Forum
• $0.5m to pay Singapore hospital bills
• $0.3m for increased Presidential travel
• many more under $500,000

and reductions (reductions total $193.3 million, including $150m from the Infrastructure Fund)

• $21m in Infrastructure Fund cuts in other sectors (see table)
• $9.4m of $19m reappropriated for unfinished PDD-1 projects
• $3.3m of $18m allocated for the Civil Society Fund under the P.M.
• $2.0m of $10m allocated for "Impact of Special Regimes" in the contingency fund
• $0.5m from Parliamentary travel
• many more under $500,000

Debate iha Plenária Parlamentár

Hafoin audiénsia husi komisaun sira remata, Komisaun C koleta relatóriu sira husi Komisaun ida-idak atu halo relatóriu ho pájina 92 (Portugés ka Ingles), ho rekomendasaun no preokupasaun barak. Deputadu sira le no fahe relatóriu ida ne'e durante sesaun primeiru Plenária Parlamentár iha loron 4 Fevreiru. Primeiru Ministru Xanana Gusmão, lider FRETILIN nian Mari Alkatiri, Natalino dos Santos husi CNRT,  Lurdes Bessa husi PD no FM halo diskursu atu loke debate, atu hahú loron tolu debate iha generalidade, hanesan hakerek iha notulen Parlamentár ba loron ida ne'e. Iha loron 6 Fevreiru, hafoin aprezentasaun final husi FRETILIN,  CNRT,  PD no FM, deputadu sira aprova OJE2013 iha generalidade, ho vota favor 40, kontra 0, no abstensaun 25 (hotu FRETILIN). Governu fó sai Komunikadu Imprensa iha lingua Portugeza.

Deputadu sira sei diskute ba semana rua tan kona ba kada órgaun iha OJE, ho votasaun final iha loron 20 Fevreiru. Iha loron 7 Fevreiru, Deputadu sira debate ezbosu rezolusaun (Ingles ka Port.) atu kria komisaun eventual, ho reprezentante sira husi partidu hotu, atu rezolve alterasaun sira molok diskusaun iha Plenária. Rezolusaun final (Port. ka Ingles), adopta ho konsensu atu aprezenta alterasaun, fó loron tolu ba komisaun atu rekolla, diskute no deside liu hosi konsensu atu halo alterasaun ba Plenária, ne’ebé sira sei vota lahoo dikusaun ne’ebé subtantivu. Komisaun ida ne'e nia enkontru la loke ba públiku, no La'o Hamutuk, media no sira seluk la hetan lisensa atu observa diskusaun ida ne'e, ita lakon transparénsia ne’ebé signifikante iha prosesu orsamentál.

Divizaun Relasaun Publika, Komunikasaun no Edukasaun Sívika husi Parlamentu Nasionál fó sai komunikadu imprensa kada loron kona-ba atividade iha Plenária, hanesan tuir mai:

• Debate iha generalidade:  4 Fev,  5 Fev,  6 Fev.

• Debate iha spesialidade:  7 Fev,  14 Fev,  15 Fev,  18 Fev.

Hafoin enkontru segredu durante loron tolu, Komisaun Eventual haruka sira nia proposta ba mudansa iha Lei Orsamentál (Ingles no Portugés) ba Plenária 14 Fevreiru. Hamesu tokon $150 kompara ho total orsamentu ne’ebe Governu propoin iha Dezembru, hanesan hatudu iha tabela iha liman loos. Mudasan boot mak hanesan:

1. Hatún tokon $8 hosi Fundu Kontinjénsia, maske nune’e, osan sira be hamenus ne’e barak liu uza ba lina despeza seluk.

2. Hamenus tokon $17 hosi despeza ba kombustivel jeradór, hodi aloka fila fali tokon $15 hosi ne’e ba manutensaun estrada

3. Hamenus tokon $150 hosi dotasaun ba Fundu Infrastrutura (haree iha tabela iha liman loos) mudansa boot mak hanesan;

• Eletrisidade (kua tokon $50 hosi tokon $174 ne’ebe orijinalmente governu propoin ba)

• MDG-uma no saniamentu (kua 42 hosi tokon $88 ne’ebé propoin)

• Estrada (kua tokon $29 hosi tokon $116 ne’ebé propoin)

• Edifisiu publiku (kua tokon $8 hosi tokon $29 ne’ebé propoin)

4. Aplika tokon $261 hosi balansu iha tezouru (ne’ebé tokon $819 iha fim 2012, maior parte tanba iha transferénsia boot hosi Fundu Petróleu, hanesan hatudu iha gráfiku iha leten, laos tanba hasa’e rendimentu foun ka halo transferénsia adisionál hosi Fundu Petróleu

5. Hamenus planu atu foti osan hosi Fundu Petróleu durante 2013 hosi tokon $1,198 to’o tokon $787, montante ba Rendimentu Sustentavel Estimesu (RSE)

Buat hirak ne’e la’o hela iha diresaun ne’ebé loos, maske nune’e ami sente triste katak Deputadu sira la hateten kona-ba konsekuensia hosi adia projetu infrastrutura sira ba orsamentu sira oin mai. Ami mós epsera katak despeza boot ba projetu Tasi Mane menus ona. Projetu Ida la muda hodi hatudu inidade nasional ida ba negosiasaun ho Woodside no Australia ne’ebe la’o hela daudauk.

Mudansa seluk neebe komisaun eventual halo, ne’ebé simu hotu ona hosi Parlamentu, inklui aumenta tuir mai; (aumenta tomak, inklui sira iha leten nia montante tokon $43.3)

• Tokon $3.0 aloka ba PDID (projetu ki’ik ba infrastrutura lokál)
• Tokon $2.0 aloka ba Medalla PNTL no Petty Cash ba distritu
• Tokon $2.0 aloka ba CNE nia subsídiu ba partidu polítiku sira
• Tokon $1.5 aloka ba estrada Lore-Lospalos (liu hosi Fundu Infrastrutura)
• Tokon $1.3 aloka ba igreja Maliana no Atsabe
• Tokon $1.0 aloka Zona Ekonomia Espesiál
• Tokon $1.0 aloka ba karreta Membru Parlamentu
• Tokon $1.0 aloka ba kooperativa
• Tokon $1.0 aloka ba Prokuradoria Distritu Dili
• Tokon $0.9 aloka ba reabilitasaun Prizaun Suai
• Tokon $0.8 aloka ba nova Ajensia Kooperasaun Timor-Leste (Ajudu ba railiur)
• Tokon $0.7 aloka aru harii Tribunal Dsitritu Dili
• Tokon $0.6 aloka ba Osuariu Metinaro
• Tokon $0.5 aloka ba Forum Ekonómiku CPLP
• Tokon $0.5 hodi selu tusan hosi hospital Singapura
• Tokon 0.8 aloka ba hasa’e viazem Prezidensial
• Iha buat barak mak menus husi $500,000

no redusaun (total redusaun tokon $193.3, inklui tokon $150 hosi Fundu Infrastrutura)

• Tokon $21 kua iha Fundus Infrastrutura hodi aloka ba setór seluk (haree iha tabela)
• Tokon $9.4 hosi reapropriasaun tokon $19 ba projetu PDD-1 ne’ebé la remata
• Tokon $3.3 hosi tokon $18 nee’ebe aloka ba Fundu Sosiedade Sivíl iha Gabinete Primeiru Ministru nia okos
• Tokon $2.0 hosi tokon $10 ne’ebe aloka ba “Impaktu hosi Rejime Espesiál” iha fundu emerjénsia
• Tokon $0.5 aloka ba viajen Parlamentár
• Barak liu menus hosi $500,000

Budget Finalized and Promulgated

Due to the improved efficiency of a closed-room budget process, Parliament approved the budget unanimously two days early, on 18 February. Fretilin and others made closing statements. The Government celebrated the budget's passage in a press release.
After a week of consideration, President Taur Matan Ruak promulgated the budget as Law No. 02/2013 of 1 March. He wrote a letter to Parliament (Portuguese original) with 14 comments, including concerns about execution rates, expensive speculative projects, inflation, low allocations for human development, the Tasi Mane project and unemployment.
Although the enacted budget withdraws only the ESI from the Petroleum Fund during 2013, most of it is financed by PF transfers made in previous years, and it does not represent a major decrease in expenditures.

Orsamentu Aprova no Promulga tiha ona

Parlamentu aprova OJE 2013 ho unanimidade loron rua sedu, tanba prosesu ne'ebe taka ba publiku kotuk efikás duni. Fretilin no partidu sira seluk halo komentáriu atu remata debate. Governu selebra aprovasaun OJE iha komunikadu emprensa.
Hafoin semana ida, Prezidente Repúblika promulga Orsamentu Estadu hanesan Lei No. 02/2013 de 1 de Marsu. Nia haruka karta (Ingles ka Portugés) ba Parlamentu ho komentáriu 14, inklui preokupasaun kona-ba ezekusaun orsamentál, projetu karun no espekulativu, inflasaun, despeza uitoan ba dezenvolvimentu umanu, projetu Tasi Mane no dezempregu.
Maske Orsamentu final hasai de’it RSE husi Fundu Petrolíferu durante 2013, nia hetan finansiamentu husi transferénsia husi Fundu Petrolíferu durante 2012, no la reprezenta redusaun boot iha despeza. Bele hetan lei final iha Ingles ka Portuges.

As required by law, the General State Accounts for 2013 were presented to Parliament and the High Tax and Audit Court during the second half of 2014. The Court issued its opinion (11 MB Portuguese) on 29 October 2014.

Tuir lei. Conta Jeral Estadu ba tinan 2013 aprezenta ba Parlamentu Nasional no Tribunal das Contas ihs 2014. Tribunal fo sai sira nia paraser (11 MB Portuges) iha loron 29 Outubru 2014.

Documents

• Opinion from the Court of Appeals Chamber of Accounts on the General State Accounts for 2013 (11 MB Portuguese) October 2014

• Financial Statements for Consolidated Fund, Infrastructure Fund, and Human Capital Development Fund, July 2014

• Recommendations from the Appeals Court Chamber of Accounts audit of the 1q2013 budget execution report (full report in Portuguese), April 2014

• Quarterly Fiscal Bulletin - Gov't Finance Statistics Jul-Sep 2013, Oct-Dec 2013

• Quarterly Fiscal Bulletin - Chart of Accounts Jul-Sep 2013, Oct-Dec 2013

• Budget Execution reports: Jan-Mar 2013 (also English summary)
  Jan-Jun 2013 (3.6MB),  Jan-Sep 2013 (2.6MB)

• Matadalan ba Orsamentu 2013 (citizen's guide), Tetum (1 MB, June 2013)

• Final Budget books for enacted 2013 General State Budget as posted by the Ministry of Finance in April 2013:

  • Book 1 Budget Overview. Also Tetum (2 MB)
  • Book 2 Annual Action Plans. Portuguese (4MB)
  • Book 3 Districts. Tetum (7 MB)
  • Book 4A Expenditure line items part 1. Portuguese/English
  • Book 4B Expenditure line items part 2. Portuguese/English
  • Book 5 Development Partners. Also Portuguese
  • Book 6 Special Funds.Portuguese

• Final version of the Budget Law no 02/2013 promulgated by the President (also Port.) (1 Mar, 2013)  The version in the Jornal da Republica has some technical errors.

• Proposed revisions to Budget Law from the ad hoc Committee (also Port.) (14 Feb. 2013)

• Resolution forming ad hoc committee to resolve controversial issues in Parliament  (also Port.) (7 Feb. 2013)

• Report of Parliamentary Committee C with other committees' recommendations (also Port.) (28 Jan 2013)

• Schedule of Parliamentary discussions on the 2013 State Budget (10 Jan. 2013)

• Proposed budget law (also Port.), explanatory memorandum (also Port.) and justification for overspending ESI (also Port.). (18 Dec. 2012)

• Budget books for proposed 2013 General State Budget as presented to Parliament on 18 December 2012, including corrections to Book 1 on 22 January:

  • Book 1 Budget Overview. Also Tetum or Portuguese
  • Book 2 Annual Action Plans. Portuguese
  • Book 3 Districts. Tetum (8 MB)
  • Book 4A Expenditure line items part 1. Portuguese/English
    (ignore pages without numbers; Books 4A and 4B include data for all active agencies)
  • Book 4B Expenditure line items part 2. Portuguese/English
  • Book 5 Development Partners. Also Portuguese
  • Book 6 Special Funds. Also Portuguese or Tetum

• 2012 Mid-Year rectified Budget (Law in Port.) (approved October 2012)

• Program of the V Constitutional Government 2012-2017 (26 August 2012)
• List of members of Parliament, with committee assignments and telephone numbers
• List of members of Government, with phone numbers and email addresses

• Budget Execution Report January-September 2012 (2.5 MB)
  Budget Execution Report January-June 2012 (2.5 MB)
  Budget Execution Report, January-March 2012 (3MB)  (Infrastructure Fund alone is smaller)

• 2012 General State Budget (approved January 2012)

  • Book 1 Budget Overview (including budget law). English (2MB) or Portuguese (3 MB)
  • Book 2 Annual Action Plans. Portuguese (5 MB)
  • Book 3 Districts. Tetum (3 MB)
  • Book 4A Expenditure line items part 1. Portuguese/English
  • Book 4B Expenditure line items part 2. Portuguese/English
  • Book 5 Development Partners. English or Portuguese
  • Book 6 Special Funds. Portuguese

• General State Accounts for 2011, including report from Parliament Committee C

• Ministry of Finance transparency portal which includes current budget execution information and procurement and other data

• Budget Execution Report, January-December 2011 (3MB)

Dokumentu

• Paraser husi Tribunal Rekursu (Camara da Contas) kona ba Conta Jeral Estadu 2013 (11 MB Portuges) Outubru 2014

• Demonstracoes Financeiras Consolidadas ba Fundu Consolidado, Fundu as Infra-estruturas, no Fundo de Desenvolvimento do Capital Humano (FDCH), Jullu 2014

• Rekomendasaun husi Tribunal Rekursu, Camara da Contas kona ba relatoriu ezeksuaun Jan-Mar 2013 (English) (Relatoriu tomak iha Portuges), Abril 2014

• Quarterly Fiscal Bulletin - Gov't Finance Statistics Jul-Set 2013, Out-Dez 2013

• Quarterly Fiscal Bulletin - Chart of Accounts Jul-Set 2013, Out-Dez 2013

• Relatóriu ezekusaun orsamentál: Jan-Mar 2013 (English summary)
  Jan-Jun 2013 (3.6MB),  Jan-Set 2013 (2.6MB)

• Matadalan Sidadaun ba Orsamentu Estadu 2013 (1 MB, Junu 2013)

• Livru final Orsamentu Jerál Estadu ba tinan 2013, publika iha Abríl 2013 husi Ministériu Finansas:

  • Livru 1 Sumariu no Panorama ka English (2 MB)
  • Livru 2 Planu Asaun Anual. Portuges (4MB)
  • Livru 3 Distritu. (7 MB)
  • Livru 4A Rubrika linha despeza parte 1. Portuges/English
  • Livru 4B Rubrika linha despeza parte 2. Portuges/English
  • Livru 5 Parseiru Dezenvolvimentu. English ka Portuges
  • Livru 6 Fundus Spesial (Portuges)

• Verzaun final version Lei OGE 2013 (Port.) promulga ona husi Prezidente (mos Ing.) (1 Mar, 2013)

• Proposta alterasaun ba Lei OJE 2013 (Ing.) husi Komisaun Eventual (mos Port.) (14 Fev. 2013)

• Resolusaun kria Komsaun Eventual atu kria unidade ba asunto kontroversial (Port, mos Ing.) (7 Feb. 2013)

• Relatoriu husi PN Komisaun C ho rekomendasaun husi komisaun seluk (Ingles) (mos Port.) (28 Jan 2013)

• Kalendariu diskusaun iha Parlamentu kona-ba OJE 2013 (10 Jan. 2013)

• Proposta Lei Orsamental (Ingles) (mos Port.), Explikasaun (Ingles) (mos Port.) no justifikasaun atu gastu liu RSE (Ingles) (mos Port.). (18 Dez. 2012)

• Livru proposta Orsamentu Jeral Estadu ba tinan 2013, haruka ba Parlamentu Nasional iha loron 18 Dezembru 2012:

  • Livru 1 Sumariu no Panorama ka English ka Portuges
  • Livru 2 Planu Asaun Anual. Portuges
  • Livru 3 Distritu. (8 MB)
  • Livru 4A Rubrika linha despeza parte 1. Portuges/English
    (ignora pajina sira laiha numeru; Livru 4A no 4B inklui data relevante hotu)
  • Livru 4B Rubrika linha despeza parte 2. Portuges/English
  • Livru 5 Parseiru Dezenvolvimentu. English ka Portuges
  • Livru 6 Fundus Spesial ka Portuges ka English

• 2012 Orsamentu Retifikativu (Lei iha Port.) (promulga Outubru 2012)

• Programa Kintu Governu Konstitusionál 2012-2017 (26 Agostu 2012)

• Lista membru Parlamentu, ho nia membru komisaun sira no sira nia númeru telemovel

• Lista membru Governu, ho númeru telemovel no e-mail

• Relatóriu ezekusaun orsamentál Jan-Set 2012 (2.5 MB)
  Relatóriu ezekusaun orsamentál Jan-Jun 2012 (2.5 MB)
  Relatóriu ezekusaun orsamentál, Jan-Mar 2012 (3MB) (Fundu Infrastrutura mesak mak ki'ik liu)

• Orsamentu Jerál Estadu 2012 (aprova iha Janeiru 2012)

  • Livru 1 Sumariu no Panorama Orsamentu (inklui Lei Orsamentu). Ingles (2MB)  ka  Portuges (3 MB)
  • Livru 2 Planu Asaun Anual. Portuges (5 MB)
  • Livru 3 Distritu. Tetum (3 MB)
  • Livru 4A Rubrika linha despeza parte 1. Portuges/Ingles
  • Livru 4B Rubrika linha despeza parte 2. Portuges/Ingles
  • Livru 5 Parseiru Dezenvolvimentu. Ingles  ka  Portuges
  • Livru 6 Fundus Spesial. Portuges

• Konta Jeral Estadu 2011, inklue relatoriu husi Komisaun C, Parlamentu Nasional

• Portal transparénsia Ministériu Finansa nian ne’ebé inklui informasaun kona-ba ezekusaun orsamentu, aprovizionamentu, no dadus sira seluk.

• Relatóriu ezekusaun orsamentál, Jan-Dez 2011 (3MB)

• Letter from President Taur Matan Ruak to Parliament accompanying budget promulgation (Portuguese original) (25 Feb 2013)

• Plenary opening statements by Mari Alkatiri FRETILIN (also Portuguese or Tetum), Natalino dos Santos CNRT (Tetum) and Lurdes Bessa PD (Tetum) (4 Feb 2013)

• Plenary opening statement by PM Xanana Gusmão (also Portuguese or Tetum) (4 Feb 2013)

• Open Budget Survey report on Timor-Leste (also Portuguese) (23 Jan 2013)

• La'o Hamutuk commentary on Agriculture Budget (23 Jan 2013)

• Slides from LH briefing for civil society on 2013 GSB (Powerpoint or PDF) (25 Jan 2013)

• La'o Hamutuk submission to Parliament Committees on 2013 State Budget (18 Jan 2013)

• La'o Hamutuk presentation to Parliamentary seminar on energy policy (Tetum) (9 Jan 2013)

• La'o Hamutuk submission to Parliament about the 2012 Budget Rectification (10 Oct 2012)

• Prime Minister's speech presenting the Government's five-year program to Parliament (also Tetum or Portuguese) (12 Sept 2012)

• Civil society observations for the Development Partners Meeting, May 2012

• Citizen's Guide to the 2012 State Budget (Ministry of Finance, March 2012)

• Karta husi Prezidente Taur Matan Ruak na Parlamentu Nasional ho promulgasaun OJE (Portuges ka Ingles) (25 Fev 2013)

• Diskursu atu taka debate iha generalidade husi FRETILIN, CNRT no PD (7 Fev 2013)

• Diskursu atu loke debate husi Mari Alkatiri, FRETILIN, Natalino dos Santos (CNRT) and Lurdes Bessa (PD)  (4 Fev 2013)

• Diskursu husi PM Xanana Gusmão (mos Ingles ka  Portugese) (4 Fev 2013)

• Relatoriu husi Open Budget Survey kona-ba Timor-Leste (Port.) (23 Jan 2013)

• Komentariu husi LH kona-ba Orsamentu ba Agrikultura (23 Jan 2013)

• Dezenhu husi LH nia briefing ba sosiedade sivil kona-ba OJE 2013 (Powerpoint ka PDF) (25 Jan 2013)

• Submisaun husi La'o Hamutuk ba Komisaun Parlament kona-ba OJE 2013 (18 Jan 2013)

• Aprezentasaun husi La'o Hamutuk ba seminariu Parlament nian kona-ba politika enerjetika (9 Jan 2013)

• Submisaun husi La’o Hamutuk ba Parlamentu kona-ba Orsamentu Retifikativu (10 Out 2012)  [mos iha LH nia blog]

• Palestra Primeiru Ministru bainhira aprezenta programa tinan lima Governu nian ba Parlamentu (mós Portuges) (12 Set 2012)

• Observasaun Sosiedade Sivíl ba Enkontru Parseiru Dezenvolvimentu, Maiu 2012

• Mata Dalan Sidadania ba Orsamentu Estadu 2012 (Ministériu Finansa, Marsu 2012)

• General State Budget for 2014

• General State Accounts for 2011

• Strategic Development Plan 2011-2030

• Mid-year budget rectification for 2012

• General State Budget for 2012

• Heavy oil electricity project

• Tasi Mane petroleum infrastructure project

• Suai Supply Base

• Petroleum Fund

• Taking Timor-Leste into debt

• Orsamentu Jeral Estadu 2014

• Conta Jeral Estadu 2011

• Planu Estratéjiku Dezenvolvimentu 2011-2030

• Orsamentu Retifikativu 2012

• Orsamentu Jeral Estadu 2012

• Projetu eletrisidade óleu pezadu

• Projetu Tasi Mane infrastrutura petrolíferu

• Baze Fornesimentu iha Suai

• Fundu Petróleu

• Timor-Leste tama ba deve