President To Call Meeting On Infrastructure, Fuel Price

Jakarta, Nov 17 (Antara) - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is scheduled to hold a cabinet meeting on Monday to discuss program for infrastructure development and plan to raise oil fuel (BBM) price. Also to be discusses at the meeting here in the afternoon is social affairs issue concerning Smart Indonesia Card, Healthy Indonesia Card and Prosperous Family Card. Jokowi will also give directives for follow-up to be taken of the results of the three regional summit meetings he attended over the past week. The president for the first time took part in international meetings including APEC summit meeting in China, ASEAN summit meeting in Myanmar and G-20 summit meeting in Australia. Cabinet secretary Andi Widjajanto said the president asked his ministers to take follow up actions needed of the decisions made in the summits. "On Monday, the president would hold a meeting to give home works for his ministers related to the results of his foreign trips," Andi told Indonesian reporters in Brisbane, Australia before returning home on Sunday. During his week long regional tour attending the summit meetings, Jokowi held bilateral talks with a number of heads of state and government including Chancellor Angela Markel of Germany, President Francois Hollande of France, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey. "All plans to hold bilateral meetings took place as scheduled. Some of the meetings were not even included in the schedule such as the meetings in Brisbane with Italian prime minister and Turkish prime minister and in Myanmar with the Indian prime minister and the United Nations secretary general," Andi said. He said the topic of the meeting with the Italian prime minister was creative economy in fashion as Milan is known as one of the world`s fashion centers and the meeting with the Turkish leader was on expansion of bilateral cooperation in various sectors as cooperation between the two countries has not expanded as expected.