Chatib Confident Economic Growth 5.6%
16 August 2014 14:16 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Finance Minister Chatib Basri believed Indonesia’s economic growth would reach 5.6 percent as the global economic condition has been improving.
"The 5.6-percent assumption can be realized," Chatib yesterday.
The government set a target of economic growth at 6 percent in the revised 2014 State Budget. However, the economic growth slowed down to 5.2 percent in the first semester this year.
The minister said the current government did not set the target of economic growth above 5.6 percent so that the new government would have an opportunity to improve it.
Coordinating Economic Minister Chairul Tanjung echoed Chatib’s optimism as saying that the International Monetary Fund had a similar prediction, adding that the 2015 State Budget Draft had been in line with the baseline.
"The State Budget Draft can be modified by the new government," Chairul said.
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