JAKARTA — Joko Widodo leaves office as Indonesian president Sunday with high approval ratings, thanks to strong economic growth, but his successor Prabowo Subianto has bigger ambitions, including an eye-catching $28 billion free meal plan for students.
While the country regularly enjoys about 5 percent annual expansion, the former general has pledged to capitalize on his predecessor's policies to reach 8 percent by tapping the nation's huge human resources.'From prosperity, we can bring justice to all Indonesian people. We must unite to eliminate poverty and eliminate hunger, and eliminate suffering from our people,' Prabowo said in his victory speech in March.
His agenda will also focus on agriculture, observers say, with a food estate program aimed at achieving food self-sufficiency, land clearing for bioethanol projects in the restive eastern region of Papua, and a green fund selling carbon emission credits.Capital crunchAt the same time, Prabowo is inheriting Jokowi's legacy project — a $32 billion move of the capital from traffic-clogged and sinking Jakarta to Nusantara, a planned green city in eastern Borneo, where construction is underway.
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