PRESIDENT PLANS TO INVOLVE BIZMEN, ECONOMISTS IN WORKING MEETING

Jakarta, March 25 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono plans to involve Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) executives, businessmen and economists in a working meeting on economic matters.

The government will hold a working meeting to draw up a road map to achieve a 7-percent economic growth rate by 2014, President Yudhoyono said here on Thursday when chairing a limited cabinet meeting on people's welfare at his office.

To be attended also by ministers, governors and other government officials, the meeting was expected to improve coordination, synergy and synchronizations, he said.

"We will add another agenda by having Kadin executives, businessmen and economists take part in the formulation of a kind of road map toward the 7-percent economic growth target by 2014 as set forth in the medium -term national development plan 2010-2014," he said.

The president said he believed the topic was important to improve the people's welfare, especially pro-people projects which need high state revenues and economic growth.

The first working meeting was held recently at the Cipanas Palace to discuss six main issues in the fields of politics, law, security, economy and people's welfare.

Following the working meeting, coordination and synergy among government officials and development executors in the regions had improved.

The government in 2010 especially would intensify the implementation of the five-year development plan's three pillars, namely economy for the people's welfare, democracy, and justice, Yudhoyono said.

The results of the working meeting would be formalized in a presidential instruction, he said.

The limited cabinet meeting discussed three main topics, namely intensification of pro-people programs, efforts to achieve MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), efforts to promote justice for the people especially the marginalized ones, children and old people.

The meeting was attended by among others Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Agung Laksono, Coordinating Minister for Political, Lega, and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto, State Minister for Women's Empowerment and Children's Protection Linda Amalia Sari, and Social Affairs Minister Salim Segaf Al Jufrie.