Some hours before he was replaced, Industry Minister Andung A. Nitimihardja put on a brave face. On that day, December 5, 2005, a whole series of statistics was explained during a work meeting with the Industry Commission at the House of Representatives (DPR).

According to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, industrial growth by the third quarter of last year amounted to 6.76 percent. This was not that far off the 2005 annual target of 6.8