Indonesia

The retail market in Indonesia has always had a strong luxury component. It is a country with many elites and super-wealthy, and global brands have been there to cater to them. What is happening now is altogether different and potentially more promising. The lower-upper and the upper-middle sections of the wealth spectrum are growing as the country...

The textile industry has been struggling with a number of problems. Wage rates are increasing and competition, especially from China, is rising dramatically. Furthermore, Indonesia’s main markets in the West are weak as the recession drags on in some places and consumers cut back. And the US has given preferential rights to some of Indonesia’s...

After a decade-plus of going nowhere, the value of real estate and rental rates are rising so fast that Jakarta has been identified by PwC and the Urban Land Institute as the most promising property market in the region in 2013. Many forces are at work, some short term and others more long term and significant.

In order to compensate for the inevitable decline of domestic oil production and supplement coal supplies, Indonesia is increasingly leaning on its natural gas reserves to satiate a growing energy appetite and boost export revenues. With production rates steadily increasing over the past decade and more fields expected to contribute in the near...