Chatib Basri Optimistis Pertumbuhan Ekonomi 5,8% - 6,1% di 2014
Indonesia`s Economy Would Grow Beetwen 5.8% to 6.1% in 2014
Reporter : Gatot Priyantono
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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Jakarta (B2B) - Menteri Keuangan Chatib Basri tetap optimistis pertumbuhan ekonomi Indonesia pada 2014 sekitar 5,8% sampai 6,1% meskipun Bank Dunia tidak merevisi angka pertumbuhan Indonesia 5,3%.
"Tahun lalu Bank Dunia prediksi seperti apa? Masih bener kita, angkanya akan sekitar 5,8 persen hingga 6,1 persen," kata Chatib selepas seminar Indonesia Summit 2014 di Jakarta, Rabu.
Bank Dunia, pada Selasa (14/1), merevisi pertumbuhan ekonomi global dari tiga persen menjadi 3,2% pada 2014. Pertumbuhan ekonomi global itu dilatarbelakangi pertumbuhan ekonomi negara-negara maju seperti AS, negara-negara Eropa, dan Jepang setelah bertahan dari krisis keuangan global.
Meskipun merevisi pertumbuhan ekonomi global, Bank Dunia tidak merevisi pertumbuhan ekonomi Indonesia pada 2014 yang tetap pada angka 5,3%.
Bank Indonesia, pada Kamis (9/1), memproyeksikan pertumbuhan ekonomi nasional pada 2014 akan bias ke batas bawah pada 5,8% hingga 6,2% seiring perbaikan ekonomi global.
Meski memproyeksikan pertumbuhan ekonomi nasional 2014 bias ke batas bawah, Gubernur Bank Indonesia, Agus Martowardojo, masih optimis pertumbuhan ekonomi 6% masih dapat dicapai.
"Masih bisa kembali ke target menengah," kata Agus.
Jakarta (B2B) - Chatib Basri, Indonesian Finance minister Chatib Basri stated that he was optimistic that Indonesias economy would grow between 5.8 percent and 6.1 percent this year.
"We were right with our prediction of growth at 5.8 percent to 6.1 percent last year," he explained after attending an Indonesia Summit 2014 seminar, here on Wednesday.
The World Bank on Tuesday revised the global economic growth from 3 percent to 3.2 percent in 2014 against the backdrop of economic growth in advanced countries such as the US, the European countries and Japan following the global financial crisis, but it did not revise the growth figure for Indonesia which was 5.3 percent.
The World Bank meanwhile projected the economic growth in the East Asian and Pacific regions at 7.2 percent, which was the same as in 2013.
In its latest report the bank pointed out that the economic growth in East Asia and the Pacific would remain the same because the regions were still affected by the impact of normalization following global financial crisis.
Bank Indonesia, on January 9, projected the countrys economic growth this year to be at the down side of between 5.8 percent and 6.2 percent in line with global economic improvement.
Although the projection was on the down side, the central banks governor Agus Martowardojo stated that the growth could still reach six percent.
"It may still be back to reach the middle-range of the target," he reiterated.
