Already one of the fastest-growing major capital exchanges in the world, Indonesia’s equity and bond markets saw increased activity in late 2016 and early 2017 after a lacklustre performance in 2015. This recent resurgence is based on the country’s strong economic fundamentals and aided by short-term trends which saw a recovery in commodity prices, increased government infrastructure spending...
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Chapter | Capital Markets from The Report: Indonesia 2018
Articles & Analysis | China's One Belt, One Road initiative reshaping South-east Asia from The Report: Indonesia 2018
Hailed by Chinese President Xi Jinping as “the project of the century”, the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative promises to radically transform a vast swathe of the world’s trade and transport infrastructure. In doing so, it may also transform the way Asia does business with the world, and the way the world does business with Asia.
Interviews & Viewpoints | Xi Jinping, President of China: Viewpoint from The Report: Indonesia 2018
From a historical perspective, economic globalisation resulted from growing social productivity, and is a natural outcome of scientific and technological progress, not something created by any individual or country. Economic globalisation has powered global growth and facilitated the movement of goods and capital, advances in science,...
Articles & Analysis | Indonesia enacts major reforms in strategic areas from The Report: Indonesia 2018
While the Republic of Indonesia is just over seven decades old in its current form, the South-east Asian nation of more than 17,000 islands has a much longer history under other names. The name Indonesia was first used in 1850 by British anthropologist James Richardson Logan in referring to the extensive group of islands that was known at the...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands: Viewpoint from The Report: Indonesia 2018
Indonesia and the Netherlands are strategic partners in a future-oriented relationship. This is no surprise, given our shared history and interest in each other. The foundations of our relationship are deep and go right back to the late 16th century, when a small Dutch merchant fleet landed at Banten, not far from modern-day Jakarta. It went...
