Indonesia

Indonesia's leadership in its push for Myanmar's chairmanship indicates how far it has come since widespread riots in 1998 led to the fall of its authoritarian 'New Order' government... 2011-11-28

A water crisis, which began late on August 31, continues to leave over 500,000 Jakarta residents without clean water. The crisis began when a floodgate failed in East Jakarta following... 2011-09-05

At least 22 people were killed in separate outbreaks of political violence in the Indonesian province of Papua in early August. This came just hours after the police had managed to... 2011-08-02

Consumer price inflation came in at 4.6% y-o-y in June, down from 5.5% y-o-y in May, while core inflation also hedged down slightly. The slowdown in inflation seen in recent months... 2011-08-02

We have revised up Indonesia's budget deficit forecast for 2011 from 1.4% of GDP to 1.8% of GDP owing primarily to an increase in fuel subsidy costs, which continue to make up a substantial... 2011-08-02

Indonesia's disinflationary trend took a breather in August, with headline CPI registering an increase to 4.79% year-on-year from 4.6% a month earlier. Nevertheless, the slightly above-consensus... 2011-08-02

BMI View : Three state-owned Chinese companies have expressed interest in making large scale investment amounting to around US$3bn so as to construct a number of infrastructure projects... 2011-07-15