The Indonesian economy has logged another quarter of growth below 5 per cent, underscoring the difficulty facing a new president who had pledged to boost economic activity and jobs in South-East Asia's largest economy.

Over the last five years, Indonesian gross domestic product (GDP) growth peaked at 6.5 percent in the first quarter of 2011 and has steadily fallen to 4.71 percent in the first quarter of 2015. Growth slid further in the second quarter to 4.