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Infrastructure spending in Indonesia picks up
Published Mon, Sep 21, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Jakarta
INFRASTRUCTURE spending in Indonesia is beginning to pick up after lengthy delays, a welcome relief for President Joko Widodo's plan to jump-start South-east Asia's largest economy by building new roads, ports and bridges.
In the past few weeks, the government has sped up capital spending, leading to a surge in cement sales and imported capital goods and raw materials.
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