 I'm here with Gita Irwan, the Chairman of the Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board who's visiting Washington D.C. with the Indonesian delegation for the Nuclear Summit. Gita, could you tell us a little bit about what your messages are for Americans who are thinking about Indonesia? It's pretty simple really. We're trying to make Indonesia more relevant to people in the United States. I think we've suffered enough from being known as a country of natural disasters. Fortunately, we've got quite a number of positives that we ought to be known for. The economy has been moving in the right direction. It's only going to continue moving in the right direction, macro, economically, and political stability is there. So, let's not forget, it's going to be $650 billion dollar economy by the end of this year. And you've got a population of 235 million people, the third largest democracy in the world, the largest Muslim nation, you've got modernity, you've got the ability to show the right stuff on certain things. At the same time, we've got issues that we need to fix. And what I'm basically pitching is directionality. It's not about being able to deliver absolutes today or tomorrow, we've gone on the right path the last five years and there's no reason for us not to go on the right or on the same path. You're doing some exciting things with your fellow ministers. Before it was harder to invest in Indonesia, you had to stop at many places. We understand you're talking to your fellow ministers and also provincial governors. Could you tell us about any progress you've made in sort of streamlining the investment process? Well, now if you invest through the Jakarta office, you can do it all under one roof. Getting the fiscal incentives, the immigration related stuff, the labor related stuff at the BKPM office. As much as people think that's a victory, I think the real challenge is how to roll it out to the three provinces or the over 500 Kabupatans or regencies. That's going to be a big challenge. So we're trying to roll it out to all the 33 provinces by the end of the year and to accelerate that we're championing or using certain provinces as champions. Regional champions, seven provinces have been selected as regional champions. Those are the provinces of Riau, South Sumatra, West Java, East Java, East Kalimantan, and Papua. The governors are excited about this by being included in that list. They're cooperating. This can be used as a positive contagion to all the other provinces. You know, governors, they talk to each other. I think the next gig is to try to get that happening at the Kabupaten or the regency level, which we're already getting started with. A quick look around Southeast Asia would suggest that democracy is not an easy process. Our friends in Thailand obviously are struggling right now. Indonesia's been through more than a decade of sort of turning the ship around. Has democracy been good for business or will it be? What's your view on that? It depends if you're taking a six month view. We like to take a long term view of things. And yes, the lessons were hard for all of us in Indonesia. I've been there throughout since the beginning of democratization in Indonesia. But long shot, I think it's only good for everybody. But as long as you're mindful of needing to do the right things on the fundamentals, and I think we have been able to focus on those things the last five years. You have an infrastructure summit coming up. Obviously infrastructure must be a priority. Can you talk a little bit about that? Yeah, well I think the summit is going to be different from the previous one. Two counts. First one is that it's going to have a higher degree of realism. I don't think it would like to be as bombastic as we were in the previous two or three. Second, it's going to be more focused. We're going to talk about building roads and power plants. And if you take a five year view of Indonesia, it really boils down to building 20,000 kilometers of roads and 15,000 megawatts of power generation. It's simple, but it's tough also at the same time. Tough in the sense that the execution part of it, for those two things and some of the peripheries, about $160 billion worth of funding is going to be needed for which or off which the government is going to allocate $50 to $60 billion. So I think the million dollar question is, who's going to get that $100 billion worth of private capital? And I think the government realizes that there needs to be a role of crystallization here in terms of marrying the private capital and the government capital. Because as a beautiful plan, as you can make, if the execution capacity is not there, then it will stay on as a plan. And we certainly do not want to go forward without the ability to execute properly. You've created companies and developed strategies for investors. You've sat on many boards. If you were sitting on the board of a major multinational company and talking about investing in Indonesia, what would be the three things that you recommend that they think about? In terms of sectors or opportunities or in terms of what to consider? What to consider? How to approach Indonesia? Indonesia, like many other places, is a who-you-know model. It's not a what-you-know model as an investment thesis. And number two, it sits on the back of continuing macro-stability in economic sense and also political sense. And number three, it's a burgeoning economy with fantastic demographic bonus. That's youthful. 60% of the population is younger than 39 years old and 50% is younger than 29 years old. Those are the key areas that you need to focus on. The other stuff in terms of its wealth and natural resources and what have you, that's granted. But how do you actually make the best of it? I think it presents a pretty nice investment thesis. I know you need to get on your plane to New York, but thank you for spending some time with CSIS. Thank you.