Jakarta, April 21 -- Minister of National Development Planning/Head of the National Development Planning Agency (PPN/Bappenas), Rachmat Pambudy, said that Indonesia's population growth rate is above the global average.

"The world population is now over 8 billion, and Indonesia's population is over 280 million. If we follow the global population growth trend, we should only have 240 million. This means our population growth rate is above the global average. We must be careful," he said on Tuesday.

He conveyed this at the launch of the Country Programme Implementation Plan (CPIP) for the 11th Cycle of the Indonesia-UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) Cooperation Program in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Under these conditions, Pambudy noted that...