It does not yet have the money to pay soldiers.

But anything could happen, especially if the soldiers are not paid on time.

The government also needs funds to pay its police and soldiers.

We are broke and have not paid police or soldiers for three months.

Because the soldiers were not paid, they began to desert.

Silver is used as currency, in trade, and to pay soldiers.

There would be money forthcoming to pay soldiers for that purpose.

Another man, in the central market here, said he and his family had been able to cross after paying Pakistani soldiers.

It was illegal, he said, under Indonesian law for foreign companies to pay soldiers.

The soldiers provide their own weapons and are paid in rations from the government.