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Indonesian President Joko Widodo leads the cabinet plenary session at the Presidential Office in Jakarta on Wednesday morning (6/3). The cabinet plenary session focuses on discussing the 2020 Government's Working Plan as well as the Macroeconomic Policy and Principles of Fiscal Policy 2020.

The President instructed that the government's working program should be implemented normally despite Indonesia will hold the general elections in April. According to President Joko Widodo the discussion on the Government's Working Plan, framework of Macroeconomic policy and the principles of fiscal policy in 2020 must be arranged as the foundation in arranging the state budget's plan 2019 (RAPBN 2020) by referring to the National Medium-Term Development Planning which has been established by the Ministry of the National Development Planning (Bappenas).Jokowi also instructed that the government's working plan 2020 must be oriented at developing the quality of human resources which has begun since this year.

“To maintain the sustainability of the national development, in 2020 the development of human resources must be the main priority continuing the programs which will be implemented starting from this year,” President Joko Widodo said.

Furthermore, President Jokowi also reminded his board to anticipate the uncertainty of global economy regarding the normalization of monetary policy in the US, fluctuation of commodity price, trade war and protectionism, the growing moderation in China, as well as security and global geopolitics.

In addition to reminding about the global economic uncertainty, the President called on his board to support the improvement of Indonesia's economy. He also encouraged the participation of private sectors in a bid to support the synergy and innovation of Indonesia's economy by boosting their investments and exports. This is expected to benefit the society since the participation of private sectors can contribute to providing job opportunities and reducing unemployment rate. (VOI/Ndy/Trs: Amanda)