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--- On Mon, 5/18/09, Aria Bela Nusa <ariab...@centrin.net.id> wrote:
From: Aria Bela Nusa <ariab...@centrin.net.id>
Subject: [ob] Economy Could Grow 8%-9% Over Next 3 Years...
To: obrolan-bandar@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 8:14 PM
DJ Indonesia VP: Economy Could Grow 8%-9% Over Next 3 Years
Indonesian vice president Jusuf Kalla, a contender in
this year's presidential election, said Monday that the country's economy could
grow by 8% to 9% within the next three years if planned infrastructure programs
progress on schedule.
The government aims to build hundreds of
kilometers of toll roads along with 10,000 megawatts of extra
electricity- generating capacity in the next several years. However, it has had
trouble securing funding from private-sector partners to build the projects.
Kalla was outlining his economic platform
at a summit organized by the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce.
The government's current economic growth forecast
for 2009 is 4%-4.5%, compared with 6.1% in 2008. Finance Minister Sri Mulyani
Indrawati had said the country's growth could rebound to 5% to 6% in 2010.
If elected as president, Kalla said he
would work to "develop an independent, nationalist economy" that will
be less dependent on foreign loans and imports of staples, such as rice. He
said 40% of the state budget last year had gone toward repayments on external
debt and costly subsidies on fuel and electricity prices.
Kalla said next year, the government's
kerosene-to- LPG conversion program for household energy supplies should
"sharply" reduce fuel subsidies in the state budget.
Over the weekend, Kalla formalized a
coalition between his Golkar party, the former political vehicle of longtime
dictator
Suharto, and the People's Conscience Party, or Hanura, headed by former army
general Wiranto, who uses a single name.
Golkar provided much of the political
support for the current government headed by president Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono. However, in the parliamentary election held last month, its vote
tally slipped by around a third to less than 15%. Yudhoyono's Democrat Party
garnered almost 21% of votes, three times its tally in the previous election in
2004.
Hanura received around 5% of the popular
vote in April.
The first round of voting for the
presidential election will be held July 8, with a second round of voting
possible in September if no one candidate receives more than 50% of votes in
the first round.
