In our previous end of the year White Paper that was launched last year, at the MarkPlus Conference 2009 on Desember 11,2008, three major forces were predicted toinfluence the Indonesian economy in 2009. Studies on economic forecasts from various macro-economic experts lead us to predict a Traffic Light Landscape, illustrated in Diagram 1. These forces include the global economic recession, regional ASEAN integration and the local general election. And as expected, these three forces took place and made