During the first round of the presidential election, Megawati Sukarnoputri offered a string of populist solutions which was called the Five Recommendations: increasing salaries, reducing taxes, fuel subsidies and creating new employment. Economist Sri Adiningsih from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, who is part of Megawati’s economic team, explains all these economic promises to Thomas Hadiwinata of Tempo.

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