Cookie-counting Indrawati aims to fix Indonesian budget woes
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Jakarta
WITHIN the austere confines of Indonesia's Finance Ministry, even the cookies are under review as budget strains threaten to undermine President Joko Widodo's ambitious infrastructure plans for South-east Asia's largest economy.
Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati urged spending restraint in a recent speech to officials as she grapples with a fiscal shortfall and widening budget deficit. When a couple of dozen biscuits at a morning meeting weren't eaten and thrown out, she told her charges to tackle waste of any kind.
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