Beaten Before Recession

February 17, 2009

RESIGNED. That’s the feeling enveloping Benny Soetrisno, Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Kadin) these past two weeks. His dream that the government would realize a fiscal stimulus on the business world to the tune of Rp71.3 trillion is not coming true. “We’ve been having dialogs with the government since October, but until today there’s nothing,” he told Tempo in Jakarta last week.

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