Jokowi aiming for 7% growth for Indonesia
[JAKARTA] President-elect Joko Widodo said he's aiming for a growth pace Indonesia hasn't seen since before the 1990s Asian financial crisis, a shift that would bolster the clout of the world's fourth most-populous nation.
"We must address shortcomings in infrastructure, manufacturing, and then we need to invest more in strong human capital," Mr Joko, known as Jokowi, 53, said in an interview at his rented house in central Jakarta on Monday, a day before the official result. "When our economy grows more than 7 per cent, I am very confident" it will strengthen Indonesia's role in international forums, he said.
South-east Asia's largest economy can achieve such a pace of expansion in two years, according to the Jakarta governor.
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