She is an Indonesian economist who has been Minister of Finance of Indonesia since 2016. She was named best minister in the world in a conference attended by ministers from all over the world.
When you see what she did in her country, you feel she deserves such prize. In fact, she cut her government’s debt by half, increased foreign reserves to $ 50 billion, reduced the large disparities between incomes and encouraged an ambitious microcredit program, creating jobs in numbers that were not created by another Indonesian minister.
She says that her country is inhabited by two hundred and seventy million citizens, which she sees as working power and not just consumers. This is the difference between failed governments that see 100 million citizens on its land as a burden that can’t be used for good work.
