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Joko reshuffles Cabinet as growth slips to six-year low

2 experienced technocrats put in key economic management posts

Published Wed, Aug 12, 2015 · 09:50 PM

    Jakarta

    INDONESIAN President Joko Widodo put two experienced technocrats into key economic management posts on Wednesday in a Cabinet reshuffle designed to reassure investors worried about a policy drift that has allowed growth to slip to a six-year low.

    Mr Joko's choice of ministers defied expectations that his own party would compel him to make political appointments, a move that may surprise critics who say he has not been the robust leader they had hoped for when he took office last year.

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