Mission Impossible
TO dispel any notion of over-expectations, the critics of the 2015 National Mid-Term Development Plan should take a second look at how the Nawa Cita agenda came into being. This work program containing the nine priorities of the Jokowi-Kalla government is the product of the recent presidential election campaign. Understandably, therefore, the Nawa Cita goals tend to be seen as little more than campaign promises, too high a target to achieve.
To those who hold sacred anything labeled as a Sukarno heritagegiven how the name Nawa Cita resembles Sukarno's speech titled 'Nawaksara'the overly-ambitious features is clear to see. At the risk of sounding exaggerating, some of their objectives are unrealistic, given current economic, social and political factors. For example, how can we 'build Indonesia from the sidelines' with the current development orientation, particularly with the state's financial incapacity to develop much-needed infrastructure.
April 7, 2015
TO dispel any notion of over-expectations, the critics of the 2015 National Mid-Term Development Plan should take a second look at how the Nawa Cita agenda came into being. This work program containing the nine priorities of the Jokowi-Kalla government is the product of the recent presidential election campaign. Understandably, therefore, the Nawa Cita goals tend to be seen as little more than campaign promises, too high a target to achieve.
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