Pivotal economic challenges for the Prabowo administration

If industrialisation only targets the domestic market instead, we will continue missing out on lucrative opportunities in vast production networks like East Asia. — The Jakarta Post

THE manufacturing sector, combined with labour-intensive exports, played a major role in Indonesia’s economic development, especially in the two decades prior to the 1997 to 1998 Asian financial crisis.

A growth rate of around 10% pulled up overall economic growth, but it has since been on a decreasing trend.