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Indonesia Starts to Strangle on Success

Indonesia Starts to Strangle on Success

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Sep 17, 2008
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Indonesia, with its economy growing at its healthiest pace since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, is starting to burst at the seams from a serious lack of infrastructure development.

A statement last week by the Planning Ministry in Jakarta that the country will require Rp115 trillion (US$12.55 billion) to keep up with exploding development was met im…

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