Cempaka Business and Economy: Stimulus can absorb 3m new workers

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Stimulus can absorb 3m new workers

Aditya Suharmoko, THE JAKARTA POST, JAKARTA | Thu, 02/26/2009 10:35 AM

The government expects its stimulus package to absorb an extra 3 million workers amid large scale layoffs from companies hit by the global economic downturn.

On late Tuesday, the government received approval from the House of Representatives to launch the stimulus package. The House even raised the amount by Rp 2 trillion to Rp 73.3 trillion in total.

The Rp 2 trillion increase, which will be added to fund infrastructure projects, is expected to help absorb an additional 3 million workers, said State Minister for National Development Planning Paskah Suzetta.

His estimate was based the assumption that each additional 1 percent economic growth achieved could generate employment for between 431,000 and 450,000 people.

According to the Finance Ministry, as of January export-oriented industries had laid off 24,790 workers, and were planning to lay off 25,000 more in the coming months.

Of the total Rp 73.3 trillion stimulus package, Rp 12.2 trillion is allocated to infrastructure projects and empowerement programs for the people living in rural areas.

This amount is on top of over Rp 90 trillion already set aside in the 2009 state budget for infrastructure projects under the auspices of various relevant ministries.

“With an economic growth of between 4.5 percent and 5 percent, helped by the extra Rp 2 trillion increase in the stimulus, the poverty rate is expected to drop to between 12 percent and 13 percent.

“Last year it was 15.4 percent,” said Paskah.

Finance Ministry head of fiscal policy Anggito Abimanyu said the Rp 2 trillion increase would be allocated to build roads in villages and municipalities, and irrigation schemes, which “can quickly generate employment”.

The House said the government should finish the stimulus package details in five days, launching it as early as March to limit the negative impact of the global financial crisis.

“In five days the budget document will be ready. Thus, the money can be absorbed in the first semester (of 2009),” said Anggito.

Critics said if the government failed to launch the stimulus in early 2009, Indonesia’s economy might have a slower growth than expected.

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said the economy might only expand 4.5 percent this year, far lower than the 6.1 percent growth achieved last year.

Bambang Susantono, the deputy minister to the coordinating minister for the economy, in charge of infrastructure, said the government would launch the stimulus in early March, although it “still depends on the projects”.

He said the government had also worked with the International Labour Organization (ILO) to generate more employment.

“ILO said there are labor-based methods, which can generate employment 1.5 times higher based on the (same) jobs and sectors.”

He added that the government expected ministries and government agencies to create more employment without raising project costs or reducing project quality.

To reduce the burden of low- to mid-income workers, the government will introduce an income tax cut to workers having a monthly income of less than Rp 5 million, said the Finance Ministry’s director general of taxation Darmin Nasution.

He said the tax cut would be applied to February’s income tax, but the government was still designing which sectors would get the benefit of the tax reduction.

The regulation is expected to be issued soon.

Since last October Indonesia’s economy has increasingly suffered negative impacts from the global economic downturn.

According to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the economy grew the slowest in two years in the fourth quarter of 2008 as the global slowdown slashed commodity prices and export demand.

The economy expanded 5.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 from a year earlier, slower than the annualized growth rate of 6.4 percent booked in the previous quarter.

Also, on a quarterly basis, the economy contracted by 3.6 percent in quarter four from the previous quarter, replicating a similar trend that occurred in the same period during the last two years.

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