Sink or Sink

Repayment of debts and the sustainability of the state budget depend on economic growth at 6 percent. Yet next year's growth is targeted at a piddling 3 percent.

October 16, 2001

We will discuss the impact of the economic recession and the World Trade Center attack." Indonesia's economic team leader Dorodjatun Kuntjoro-Jakti, was probably in a snit when he said those words. After all, since the September 11 tragedy in New York and Washington, indicators show that the Indonesian economy is going from bad to worse. Minister Dorodjatun is gathering advice from a number of national and foreign research institutions in analy...

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