Faisal Basri Offers Five Strategic Development Targets in His New Book
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: An economist from the University of Indonesia, Faisal Basri, is recommending five strategic targets to the next government in order to achieve the acceleration of equal and fair economic growth.
The targets are revealed on Faisal's new book entitled 'Lanskap Ekonomi Indonesia' (The landscape of Indonesian economy) explaining the formation of robust, independent, and competitive economic structures that will not be sensitive to external influences.
The government should produce qualified human resources, mobilize all domestic fund potential in order to balance financing and investment needs, utilize natural resources and make them synergized and preserved, and build a competent and clean bureaucracy system.
Faisal said he estimated that the annual economic growth for the next five years could reach seven percent on average.
“The political capital of the next government is better than five years ago. The world economy has also shown good signs to recover,” he said during the book launching at Sahid Hotel in Jakarta, on Wednesday (7/10).
Faisal wrote the book together with Haris Munandar, a politician and an economist.
The launching of the 622-page book will have a seminar about condition, challenges, and Indonesian economic prospects during SBY's second government.
This book focuses on economic situation in Indonesia after been hit by monetary crisis in 1997 by questioning whether the economy is now a lot stronger or demands a huge change in the economic sector and other related sectors.
The writers record several progress, backwards, obstacles, and challenges, from before and after the crisis.
The book mentions Indonesia is not being an easy place yet for its people looking for income, at least for 6 million Indonesians working abroad.
An ironic condition is also to be found in agricultural sectors. As an agrarian country, the condition of farmers in Indonesia has not improved.
The same condition also applies to laborers, teachers, and entrepreneurs of small and medium enterprises.
Faisal said that there were two large structural problems that need to be prioritized including problems on human resources related to education and health affairs, and infrastructure arrangement (physical or non physical).
AGOENG WIJAYA
The targets are revealed on Faisal's new book entitled 'Lanskap Ekonomi Indonesia' (The landscape of Indonesian economy) explaining the formation of robust, independent, and competitive economic structures that will not be sensitive to external influences.
The government should produce qualified human resources, mobilize all domestic fund potential in order to balance financing and investment needs, utilize natural resources and make them synergized and preserved, and build a competent and clean bureaucracy system.
Faisal said he estimated that the annual economic growth for the next five years could reach seven percent on average.
“The political capital of the next government is better than five years ago. The world economy has also shown good signs to recover,” he said during the book launching at Sahid Hotel in Jakarta, on Wednesday (7/10).
Faisal wrote the book together with Haris Munandar, a politician and an economist.
The launching of the 622-page book will have a seminar about condition, challenges, and Indonesian economic prospects during SBY's second government.
This book focuses on economic situation in Indonesia after been hit by monetary crisis in 1997 by questioning whether the economy is now a lot stronger or demands a huge change in the economic sector and other related sectors.
The writers record several progress, backwards, obstacles, and challenges, from before and after the crisis.
The book mentions Indonesia is not being an easy place yet for its people looking for income, at least for 6 million Indonesians working abroad.
An ironic condition is also to be found in agricultural sectors. As an agrarian country, the condition of farmers in Indonesia has not improved.
The same condition also applies to laborers, teachers, and entrepreneurs of small and medium enterprises.
Faisal said that there were two large structural problems that need to be prioritized including problems on human resources related to education and health affairs, and infrastructure arrangement (physical or non physical).
AGOENG WIJAYA