Indonesia has had some tough breaks recently. The archipelago of 17,000 islands has weathered two major disasters – an earthquake and a tsunami that killed thousands – in the past six months, while the country has been hard hit by investors’ withdrawal from emerging markets.
However, Bambang Brodjonegoro, the country’s minister for national development planning and its former finance minister, is looking ahead. “We are now planning for the next five years, that will be used by the next government – whoever is elected in April 2019,” he says.
