"In order to benefit the people, the state budget should be aimed at reducing unemployment and poverty through giving emphasis on the two sectors," Ahmad Erani said in a hearing with a committee of the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) here on Wednesday.
Ahmad Erani, who is also chairman of Unibraw`s Post Graduates Economic Magistrate Study Program,said that about 50.46 percent of Indonesia`s economy in the 2003-2010 period were supported by trade-able sectors such as agriculture, mining and processing industry.
In the meantime, the non-trade-able economic sectors such as trade, hotel, restaurant and service only contributed 49.54 percent to the the country`s economy in the same period.
The problem, he said, is that the growth of trade-able sectors has declined from 8.57 percent in the 1993-1996 period to 4.63 percent in the 2003-2010 period.
The contribution to the gross domestic products ( GDP) of the agricultural sector has also dropped from 16.5 percent (19993-1996) to 14.14 percent (2003-2010).
(Uu.A014/HAJM/F001)
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