The Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) is targeting $64.7bn worth of foreign and domestic investment in 2020, which would mark an increase of 9.4% from 2019. Around 55% of the value is earmarked to come from foreign companies. However, this target is likely to be reassessed in light of the $50bn of investments that have been...
Indonesia’s government is pursuing a raft of trade deals to complement the successful ratification of the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, which took place in February 2020. The bilateral agreement is viewed as a win for Australia’s grain exporters, who will enjoy an initial 500,000-tonne quota for feed grain,...
Recent years have seen the issue of climate change and its potential ecological and economic effects move more clearly into the spotlight. It is now widely accepted that the planet cannot sustain current high-carbon industrial and consumer behaviours. With scientific knowledge on the subject now better informed and more reliable, economic...
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 history that dates back much longer. The name Indonesia was first used in 1850 by the British anthropologist James Richardson Logan in reference to the extensive group of islands that was known at...
Fulfilling its commitment to simplify business licences in order to foster investment, in June 2018 the government issued Regulation No. 24 on Electronic Integrated Business Licensing Services (GR 24). GR 24 follows the 2017 Regulation No. 91 on Acceleration of Doing Business. Referred to as the online single submission (OSS) system, it...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in Indonesia recorded triple-digit growth in 2018 as a large unbanked population embraced sub-prime micro-lending services to meet a credit shortfall estimated at $75bn. P2P loans offer significantly higher returns to private investors, while government data shows that defaults are rare, leaving the segment well...
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