The chief purpose has been to stimulate industrial development with primary focuses on mineral resource exploitation and refining, hydro-power generation, infrastructure improvement and ecological rehabilitation and conservation.
But Indonesia urgently needs more and better spending on its transport and power-generation infrastructure and public services, and on health care and education.How to spend itGovernment spending on health, at less than 1% of GDP, is low compared with other countries in the region.
Peter has extensive experience in developing, structuring and implementing major mining, metallurgical, power generation and infrastructure projects on five continents.
As a consequence, huge investments in power generation systems and infrastructure are needed.
But that boom could be wasted, they warn, if the government proves incapable of tackling core problems in education, power generation, land reform, infrastructure, corruption and inequality.
Under this scheme, which is being openly talked about inside Westminster, more than £100bn could be borrowed to improve road, rail, power generation and digital infrastructure.
Smart highways represent an opportunity for sustainable energy growth, allowing power generation for key infrastructure, as well as potentially even charging electric vehicles as they drive.
He said the assessment would look at schemes different from those carried out by the Sept. 11 hijackers and would include reviewing the vulnerability of the nation's communications infrastructure, power generation and distributions networks, and financial infrastructure to a kamikaze-style attack.
If there are other downsides, they may become clear in August or September this year, when the first production models should slip silently off the production lines and onto America's roads.Clean-energy entrepreneurs may find the transport business harder to crack than power generation, because the existing infrastructure of pipelines and service stations is dedicated to petrol.
