Kemarin saya bincang-bincang dengan Nanik Rupani,
ketua Indian Merchants Chamber, dikantornya. Seperti
halnya orang yang surname-nya berakhir dengan
a-consonant-i, dia ini orang Sindhi yaitu orang India
yang asalnya dari propinsi Sind di Pakistan. Dia
bilang, sebelum partisi ada pameo yang dia tidak bisa
lupakan: jawa mi javo, raja bawa ke avo, yang artinya
pergilah ke tanah Jawa (Indonesia) untuk jadi raja
(mukti). Rangaraj, teman saya satunya lagi dari Essar
Group, juga bilang bahwa semua orang Essar tanpa ada
kecuali, yang ditempatkan di Indonesia, selalu minta
diperpanjang, tidak jarang yang masa penempatannya di
Indonesia sampai 8 tahun. Memang Indonesia adalah
surga bagi orang India. Mereka yang menetap untuk
selamanya di Indonesia, hanya mengirimkan anaknya
balik ke India untuk melanjutkan sekolah setelah tamat
JIS, SIS, Gandhi Memorial, atau Universal di
Indonesia.
Pencurian dan perampokan dana publik sejak tahun 1985
di Indonesia apa kurang seru dari Marcos-nya Filipina?
Di Filipina, 3 tahun berturut-turut ekonomi
post-Marcos mengalami pertumbuhan minus. Tapi
Indonesia? Dengan kasus BLBI yang tiada taranya
didunia, dengan dana negara yang dikorup rame-rame
oleh segenap jajaran birokrasi, dsb, dsb, pertumbuhan
ekonomi tetap meteges 4 koma sekian. Orang asing
bilang Indonesia demikian kayanya, sehingga biarpun
presidennya achterlijk, ekonomi tetap jalan.
Apalagi kalau negeri ini dipimpin oleh orang yang
punya kepemimpinan dan ketegasan, yang punya ide, yang
tahu betul caranya mengatur negara, yang mengisi
kabinet dengan orang-orang yang punya tanggung jawab
---- maka pertumbuhan yang steady 6% setahun yang
akibatnya memangkas angka pengangguran tinggal
separohnya dalam tempo 10 tahun --- bukan hal yang
terlalu mustahil.
Salam,
RM
(Jakarta Post)
Print August 04, 2004
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Businesspeople see optimism in Susilo's economic plans
Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta
The economic presentation made by presidential
candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a dialog
with the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(Kadin) has lifted optimism for the economy, a
business leader said.
"Susilo answered questions from businessmen well, with
clear target figures and efficient policies. Although
he was too optimistic about them, businessmen thought
that Susilo has at least tried to raise business
optimism," said businessman Sofjan Wanandi, chairman
of the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo), a
powerful lobbying group.
Improving the business community's confidence in the
economy is seen as crucial to the next
administration's effort to revive investment, which is
badly needed to accelerate economic growth to the
pre-crisis level of 7 percent. Investor confidence in
the country has been dwindling due to various factors,
from legal uncertainty to labor disputes, from red
tape to poor implementation of regional autonomy.
For the past few years, economic growth has been
driven by strong domestic consumption as investment
and export declined.
Susilo and incumbent Megawati Soekarnoputri
participated in Monday's dialog. The former outlined a
brighter economic plan through a host of economic
strategies including tax reform, corruption
eradication and improving the investment climate,
while the latter focused mainly on her success in
stabilizing macroeconomic indicators without providing
clear strategies for the next five years, if she was
reelected.
Susilo said if his economic strategies were
implemented, he would project a faster economic growth
of 7.6 percent by 2009, with unemployment halved to
5.1 percent, poverty rate cut down to 8.7 percent and
an increase in income per capita to US$1,731.
Sofjan said Megawati could have countered Susilo's
policies if she had laid out her economic plans in
more detail.
"We have to acknowledge that Megawati has successfully
improved and stabilized the country's macroeconomic
indicators, but her future economic policies remain
unclear, with several unanswered questions from
businessmen," he said.
Susilo, the front runner in the race, will run against
Megawati in the Sept. 20 presidential runoff.
Several businessmen who attended the dialog were
observed leaving the dialog early during Megawati's
economic presentation, saying that the proposed plans
were unclear and focused more on the faults of her
predecessors in not resolving the prolonged economic
and political crises of the late 1990s.
Kadin chairman Mohamad S. Hidayat, on the other hand,
criticized Susilo's economic targets as unrealistic.
"Susilo is too optimistic. His target figures are
unrealistic, such as the reduction on unemployment
rate. He can achieve the target if his economic team
can work a miracle, but I doubt that," he said.
Hidayat explained that, in order for the unemployment
rate to decline from the current 10.1 to 5.1 percent
in 2009, the economy needed to grow by an average of
at least 6 percent annually.
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