23 Apr 19: President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has instructed his Cabinet ministers to increase capital expenditure and to cut spending on goods procurement in the 2020 state budget. Speaking in a plenary Cabinet meeting held at Bogor Palace in West Java on Tuesday to discuss the indicative maximum budget for 2020, Jokowi urged the ministers to increase capital expenditure in their respective ministries. “The point that I would like to stress is that capital expenditure needs to be increased.