There is little room for manoeuvre on the expenditure side, what with mandatory interest payments, transfers to the regions and salaries for civil servants.In the longer term, Mr Yudhoyono must increase the rate of growth if the economy is to provide jobs for the millions of young Indonesians who enter the workforce each year.
The combination of its card check provisions and its mandatory interest arbitration provision will surely change the balance of advantage in labor organization.
Direct reforms (caps on damages, abolition of punitive damages, eliminating mandatory prejudgment interest, and collateral source offset) did not significantly reduce payments for Medicare-covered services in any specification.
From then on, and without waiting for other institutions to do likewise, Parliament made it mandatory for interest groups wishing to enter its premises to register beforehand.
A Spy's Life (Orion, £12.99) by Henry Porter (mandatory declaration of interest: a friend) is an astonishingly topical novel about plane crashes, spooks and techno-terrorism in a post-cold war setting.
Force the lenders into mandatory delays and interest bill cuts, then help people to keep their houses or allow the local authority to buy them, rather than dumping them on the market to depress property prices still further.
The big picture: Most federal spending pays for mandatory programs and interest on the debt.
Every year, about two-thirds of the federal budget is set in stone, earmarked to pay for mandatory spending like interest on the national debt and Medicare.
Most national surveillance systems were started on a voluntary basis and with confidential data feedback to the participating hospitals, but due to huge media and patient interest, mandatory participation and public reporting of HCAI have been meanwhile implemented in many countries.
Parliament's mandate seeks to strengthen existing rules and close loopholes, so that registration would become mandatory for any interest representatives entering its premises, speaking at its public meetings or co-hosting events, with the aim of influencing MEPs' decision-making.
Since this is the first presidential election with mandatory provisional voting, and interest in the race is high, they should err on the side of excess.
