Indonesia

Since declaring independence from the Netherlands in 1945, Indonesia has become one of the world’s fastest developing and most economically promising nations. Transforming itself repeatedly over the years, it has also now established itself as an emerging regional giant. Indeed, while many countries felt the strong negative effects of the global...

Despite a turbulent history in financial services, Indonesia has plenty to offer overseas bankers. Some of what is compelling has long been so, such as the huge potential inherent in the world’s fourth-most-populous nation. Indonesia has for decades had a significant and largely untapped customer base – only about 20% of the country’s adults have...

Indonesia is one of the three largest democracies in the world in a dynamic region increasingly at the heart of global commerce and growth. Like so many other countries, Indonesia is also home to an enormous population of young people, with almost 75m under the age of 18. Those young people are growing up in a world very different than the one I...

The local banking sector has undergone many improvements since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Risks are now being more carefully managed at the regulatory and individual bank levels, with strong incentives to manage credit portfolio losses. Perhaps as a result of these changes, the ratio of non-performing loans (NPLs) has declined over the last...

Since the global financial crisis hit in late 2007, portfolio investors worldwide have cast a wider net, looking for capital gains in a world where economic growth is far from certain. In their search for markets that have shown resilience, many have turned to the countries of South-east Asia.