JAKARTA: Indonesia has seen little to no progress in shifting the focus of development away from Java over the past decade, notwithstanding the promise of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (pic) to even out economic activity across the country.
Jokowi, who is stepping down on Oct 20, has pointed to his landmark projects of building downstream industries and moving the government out to a new capital city in Kalimantan as ways to help less developed regions of the country catch up, but the data are disappointing.
