Indonesia's stock market is booming, its currency is soaring and foreign investment is starting to flow, but the more Jakarta engages with the global economy the louder the calls for protectionism seem to grow. How does Trade Minister Mari Pangestu, a respected economist and US-educated advocate of open markets, plan to juggle the often competing interests of Indonesian producers and consumers in the globalised economy?

The government aims to attract Rp 440 trillion ($48.8 billion) of private investment to develop about 100 public-private partnership projects from 2010-14, the National Development Planning Board said on Saturday. The board, also known as Bappenas, will issue a guidebook to promote the projects to investors, which will be released at the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development.