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Indonesia’s Sri Mulyani “Best Finance Minister in Asia”


Wednesday September 20, 2006

The Emerging Markets Forum awarded Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesia’s first female Finance Minister, the predicate “The Best Finance Minister in Asia ”, handed to her on the sidelines of the Annual IMF and World Bank Meeting in . In addition, Euromoney awarded Sri Mulyani the title “The Finance Minister of the Year in the World”. 

Chief Executive of the Emerging Markets Forum, Harinder Kohli explained that the Forum considered Sri Mulyani to have successfully accomplished her duties as Finance Minister in the midst of Indonesia
’s complex political and social conditions. Furthermore, in the process of democratization such as experienced by Indonesia, it is not easy for any Finance Minister to lay down long term fiscal economic policies. “ Sri Mulyani has accomplished her duties well”, said Kohli. 

Finance Ministers of other continents similarly awarded the Best Finance Minister of the Year accolade are Alberto Carrasquilla of Colombia for Latin America, Youssef Boutros Ghali of Egypt for the Middle East, Polycarpe Abah Abah of Cameroun for Africa and Aleksei Kudrin of the Russian Federation for Europe. 

The EMF is a non-profit forum that takes the initiative for world leaders and corporations to meet and discuss economic, financial and social issues faced by the developing world. EMF is slated to convene its annual meeting in
Jakarta on 20-22 September.