JAKARTA: Indonesia is taking coordinated steps to revive the worst domestic slowdown since 2009, with the finance ministry promising to speed up infrastructure spending and the central bank preparing a mixture of monetary policy changes.
The economic offensive comes a day after data showed South-East Asia's largest economy grew at a slower-than-expected pace of 4.71% in the January-March quarter from a year earlier.
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