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Stop wait-and-see stance, Jokowi tells business

News Desk (The Jakarta Post)

Jakarta

Tue, December 12, 2017 Published on Dec. 12, 2017 Published on 2017-12-12T14:29:21+07:00

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (Antara/Rosa Panggabean)

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resident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Tuesday criticized businesspeople, saying they had spent too long in a wait-and-see position, because they were overly wary about the country’s political situation amid upcoming regional elections.

He said this had been the case ever since he won the presidential election in 2014, and had continued in the following years, because of regional elections in 2015 and 2016.

“In 2018, we will have more regional elections, and the businesses will be in wait-and-see mode again. In 2019, there will be the presidential election, and they will wait and see yet again. The question is, how long will they be in this wait-and-see mode?” Jokowi said in Jakarta, as reported by tribunnews.com.

Therefore, he called on businesspeople to separate political issues from business issues, because Indonesia had long experience with elections and a mature democracy, as evidenced in the recent regional elections in many parts of the country that went smoothly and peacefully.

“Let a political event take place as it does. Let the economic activities take place normally. Everything is all right and safe. Our economy was also not disrupted by the recent regional elections,” he added. (bbn)