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Indonesia rubber woes highlight infrastructure deficits

JAKARTA -- Amid a sustained fall in global rubber prices, the head of Indonesia's main rubber producers' group has warned that the industry faces decline unless President-elect Joko Widodo takes urgent action to improve the country's infrastructure.

     Daud Husni Bastari, chairman of the Rubber Association of Indonesia, said Widodo, who takes office on Oct. 20, must deliver on campaign pledges to improve infrastructure. "We need ports, we need roads," Daud told the Nikkei Asian Review.

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