Hadir dalam rapat itu, Menteri Keuangan Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Menteri Perencanaan Pembangunan Nasional/Kepala Bappenas Paskah Suzetta, Kepala Badan Pusat Statistik BPS Rusman Heriawan dan Deputi Gubernur Senior Bank Indonesia, Miranda S. Goeltom.
Earlier, the House's Commission XI on finance, national development planning, banking industry, and non-bank financial institutions considered the government-set economic growth target of 6.6-7.0 percent for 2008 too high and proposed what its said was the realistic growth rate of 6.5-6.9 percent.