Jakarta – A group of non-government organizations have called the 2010 Law on the 2011 State Budget "unconstitutional" for alledgely failing to provide adequate funds to improve people's welfare.

The group said it was planning to submit a judicial review on the law to the Constitutional Court in either February or early March.

Yuna Farhan, a member of the group, said the health budget, for example, totaling Rp 13.6 trillion (approximately US$1.5 billion) this year constituted only 0.5 percent of the 2011 State Budget.

"That is despite Article 171 of the 2009 Law on Health saying the government must allocate 5 percent of the state budget for health expenditures, excluding salaries," Yuna said, as quoted by kompas.com.

Representing the Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency (FITRA), Yuna added that this year's health budget declined by Rp 6 trillion from the 2010 figure.