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TWELVE PROVINCES IN RI SEE GROWTH OF MORE THAN 6.4 PCT
Jakarta, Aug 22 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said 12 of the country's 33 provinces in the first half of 2008 recorded a higher-than-national economic growth rate of 6.4 percent.
"The regional economic growth is one of the yardsticks for the success of the national economic development," the president said in his address on the government's explanations on regional development policies at the plenary session of the Regional Representative Council (DPD) here on Friday.
Even some of the provinces including Riau Islands, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and Central Sulawesi saw an economic growth rate of more than 8.5 percent, he said.
"The achievement is worthy of praise. I hope that the provinces can maintain the achievement," he said.
Viewed from even distribution, the regional economic growth in the past four years was also encouraging, he said.
In 2002, the even distribution index stood at 0.72 and fell to 0.56 in 2007, he said.
The drop in the index suggested that economic activities among provinces in the country had increasingly become balanced, he said.
"It is the common responsibility of us, either at a central or regional level, to always maintain the synergy of national development in order to be able to create fair economic conditions," he said.
"The regional economic growth is one of the yardsticks for the success of the national economic development," the president said in his address on the government's explanations on regional development policies at the plenary session of the Regional Representative Council (DPD) here on Friday.
Even some of the provinces including Riau Islands, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and Central Sulawesi saw an economic growth rate of more than 8.5 percent, he said.
"The achievement is worthy of praise. I hope that the provinces can maintain the achievement," he said.
Viewed from even distribution, the regional economic growth in the past four years was also encouraging, he said.
In 2002, the even distribution index stood at 0.72 and fell to 0.56 in 2007, he said.
The drop in the index suggested that economic activities among provinces in the country had increasingly become balanced, he said.
"It is the common responsibility of us, either at a central or regional level, to always maintain the synergy of national development in order to be able to create fair economic conditions," he said.
