High income hopes fade for some South-East Asian countries - special focus from The Straits Times

Indonesia is still growing too slowly to meet President Joko Widodo's 2019 goal. - AFP

BALI (Indonesia), April 17 (The Straits Times/ANN): Joko Widodo, when he took the oath of office in 2019 to start his second term as president, vowed that the average income of Indonesians would more than triple by the middle of the century, pushing the country into the ranks of modestly high income economies such as Poland and Chile.

Indonesia's neighbours set similar goals in recent years too.