The hoardings on the slow car journey out of the centre of Jakarta are advertising just two items at the moment: smart-phones and scooters. Banks occasionally intrude, but only to offer cheap loans to buy one or the other. Lucky customers. And at the moment, what's good for the customer is good for Indonesia. The country is in the middle of a consumer boom, which is fuelling growth in South-East Asia's giant. With a population of 238m, Indonesia has long had the potential to become one of the world's biggest economies-if it could get the economic fundamentals right. Can it?
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