TEMPO.CO, Semarang - Chief patron of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party, Prabowo Subianto, has already envisioned his plans for Indonesia’s future if he is elected as the nation’s next leader from 2014 to 2019.
He announced that one of the first things he will do is cut off the budget for fuel subsidy as he deems the Rp300 trillion per year allocated for this a waste of national funds. He said the fuel subsidy should only be applied in sectors that desperately need it.
Instead, Prabowo intends to allocate the Rp300 trillion to sectors with more actual results, such as the procurement of mass transport, allocating Rp1 billion per village, developing the infrastructure for Indonesia’s railways (3,000 kilometers), and building a 10-lane highway as long as 3,000 kilometers.
Prabowo also said that he believes Indonesia has four main issues to overcome. First, the depletion of Indonesia’s energy resources due to the fact that the nation consumes approximately 500 barrels of oil per year, which increases by 10 million barrels per year, he said.
Second, the rapidly growing population as "each year, there are five million new mouths to feed, said Prabowo.
The third main problem is the weak government that is inefficient and corrupt. And finally, the fourth problem is the imbalance of the nation’s economic structure. Prabowo said that 60 percent of Indonesia’s funds circulate in Jakarta alone.
Prabowo claimed that the Gerindra Party is the only party that has prepared a national development concept for Indonesia.
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