Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro sees Indonesian economy is projected to have grown above 5 percent in the first quarter (Q1) of 2016 fueled by domestic consumption and infrastructure development. The economic growth in the past couple of quarters has tended to improve, reaching 4.73 percent in the third quarter of 2015 and 5.04 percent in the fourth quarter of the same year, the Central Statistics Agency has stated. While, the global economy is moving toward a state of slowdown, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution said earlier. However, the government is making every effort to maintain public consumption and encourage investment to ensure that the national economy will remain stable. In the revision of the draft 2016 state budget, the government has set the assumed macroeconomic growth for 2016 at 5.3 percent, fueled by high household consumption and investment performance
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