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Speech on Indonesian Information and Communication Technology Award (INAICTA) 2008 conference (August, 08th 2008) at Jakarta Convention Center, Trade Minister, Mari Elka Pangestu speak about the creative economy.

The government was concern regarding the creative economy since last two year. Creative economy is an evolving concept based on the potential of creative assets to generate socio-economic growth and development, in a globalized world increasingly dominated by images, sounds, texts and symbols.

The succesful of creative economy will be depend on creative human resources that we have currrently, and to make it realize, the government also needs support by other parties, like an enterpreunerships and technocrats.

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State Electricity Company or PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) was signed agreements to financing their 10,000 megawatts project.

To complete the construction of 35 coal-fired powerplants, PLN needed US$ 4.4 billion of dollar loans and Rp. 17.5 trillion or equivalent with US$ 1.9 billion in local currency.

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Hundreds construction company as a projects partner for local goverment of Jakarta may be will collaps caused by the price increasing between 20 -30 percent of expenses material to finish their projects currently.

The increasing of oil price in the world at this moment also has been influence to our domestic fuel price and it has been impactly for the local government of Jakarta to decrease their projects budgeting.

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