Conservative 2018 Indonesia budget faces bottlenecks
The president has released his spending proposals for next year
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- Stand-out items
- Community Fund programme
- Infrastructure spending
- Widodo's new approach
- Reduction of poverty (receiving 73 trillion rupiah)
- Achieving food security (36 trillion rupiah)
- Infrastructure (31 trillion rupiah)
- Regional development (27 trillion rupiah)
- Housing (25 trillion rupiah)
- Reforming politics, law and defence (25 trillion rupiah)
- Education (22 trillion rupiah)
- Business and tourism (13 trillion rupiah)
- Health (10 trillion rupiah)
- Energy sustainability (3 trillion rupiah)
- Other (3 trillion rupiah)
- Budget's prospects
- Growing rifts
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_350.jpg "Indonesia president Joko Widodo after delivering a speech in front of parliament members ahead of Independence Day in Jakarta, Indonesia (Reuters/Beawiharta)")