With the implementation date of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) set for December 31, 2015, Indonesia’s construction sector must take the right steps to ensure that it stays in the running. The AEC aims to create a single market and production base with free movement of goods, services and skilled labour. Such a development will enable greater...
As Indonesia’s real estate market has experienced growth in recent decades, the demand for building materials has skyrocketed. The domestic market is thriving, with Indonesia’s key players rapidly expanding production capacity of high-demand materials such as concrete and metals. Inflation is high for imported building materials and...
With a number of infrastructure projects being rolled out in the coming years, alongside overall real estate expansion and economic growth, the construction equipment sector has a vital role to play in Indonesia’s future development. Indeed, the value of the construction equipment market doubled between 2008 and 2013 – with Research and Markets...
With its low debt-to-GDP ratio, abundant resources, growing consumer demand, healthy political discourse and rising investment, Indonesia is set to lead the region and could become the world's sixth-largest economy by 2030. The country has 111 commercial ports, more than 200 airports, an estimated 17,508 islands and around 245m people. But its...
In 2010-11 and 2012 through September, little foreign direct investment (FDI) was committed to Indonesian infrastructure. But a good deal has been promised lately, and significantly it has been promised by countries known for their patience, ability to work through bureaucratic delays, and relative insensitivity to risk and guarantee issues. It is...
The growth of Indonesia’s construction sector is largely being driven by a rapid ramping up of manufacturing investment. Until a few years ago the country was not favoured as a place to locate factories. A weak domestic market, substandard infrastructure, corruption, high interest rates, complex tax policies and better opportunities elsewhere...
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