Over the past decade, Indonesia’s capital markets have gone from strength to strength, buoyed by the commodities super-cycle, sustained economic growth and a resilient domestic consumption story. Long dominated by foreign institutional investment, they remain vulnerable to shifts in global emerging market risk appetite. “We are still in the...
As the government plans to begin reforming its social security system in 2014, private underwriters expect more profitable growth in health insurance. While there are five parallel schemes providing social security, some 37% of Indonesians, or around 88m people, have no health insurance and faced spiralling out-of-pocket medical expenses in 2012...
While attempts since 1999 to establish a dynamic commodity futures market have faced low liquidity and patchy trading, the single most significant stimulus has come from new government restrictions on the export of unprocessed mineral ores since 2013. The Trade Ministry, which oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency (BAPPEBTI),...
THE COMPANY: Established in 1961, Bank Pembangunan Daerah Jabar Banten (BJBR) was the first district development bank, known as Bank Karja Pembangunan Daerah Djawa Barat. In 1992, the bank changed its legal status to become a foreign exchange commercial bank, with limited scope for operations in the...
Although Indonesia’s fixed-income market was only valued at around 15% of GDP in 2012, compared to 45% for equities, issuance and investor appetite have grown. The government has sought to rebalance its debt profile towards domestic sources, and the value of outstanding local-currency government bonds has doubled from $41.2bn to $84.9bn in the...
THE COMPANY: Austindo Nusantara Jaya (ANJT), established under the name Austindo Teguhjaya in 1993, engaged in financial services, health care, agrobusiness and energy prior to 2012. In that year, ANJT restructured its business to focus on palm oil and sago, as well as engage in power generation from...
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