REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- President Joko Widodo expressed optimism here on Friday over Indonesia's economic growth in 2015 due to the fiscal room and flexibility available in the national budget.

"The fiscal room in the national budget is good, providing a boost for economic growth in 2015," he stated at the opening of the first day of trading activity at the Blok A Tanah Abang traditional market.

He was also optimistic about the country's future economic growth as the 2015 revised budget will focus on several important infrastructure projects.

President Jokowi, as he is also called, said the infrastructure development projects were vital to generate economic growth in a country.

The national economic conditions in 2015 are believed to create business certainty to achieve the target of five percent growth or even higher, stated Head of the Committee for Food Resilience of the Indonesian Trade and Industry Fransiscus Welirang.

"The increasingly supportive macroeconomic conditions in 2015 will provide greater business certainty and will be conducive to boost the flour industry to grow as high as or even higher than the economic growth," he noted on December 30.

He said following the decision to reduce fuel subsidy, businesses in the country in 2015 will start better as the economic conditions are expected to be more stable as compared to 2014.

While closing share trading at the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) on Tuesday affirmed that the BEI index had shown a positive trend in the year 2014, which was a sign of good economic conditions in the country.

"I would like to express my appreciation and gratitude that today we could close IHSG trading in a better condition with a second-best performance in Southeast Asia. This means hope for better economy is very good," he remarked.

This indicates that the policies adopted by the government have received positive response amid problems being faced by the country, he noted, adding that the budget will continue to be improved, so that investor confidence will increase.

Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said the government will continue to widen the fiscal room by optimizing revenues and increasing the quality of state spending.

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