Indonesia
Economy
The House of Representatives may debate until March a new law on elections, and one point of contention in particular will be the minimum vote percentage that a political party must...
2012-01-27Economy
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...
2011-11-28Economy
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...
2011-09-05Economy
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...
2011-08-02Economy
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...
2011-08-02Economy
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...
2011-08-02Economy
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...
2011-08-02Industry
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



