In the past 15 years, spending on Indonesia’s education system has dramatically increased, along with enrolment rates. Indeed, basic education is now mandatory and in theory accessible to all, in line with one of the country’s Millennium Development Goals. Moreover, recently there have been great improvements in the quality of basic and, to some...
While there are a host of telecommunications providers serving various niches in Indonesia, three companies stand out as the biggest and most closely watched: Telkomsel, Indosat and XL Axiata. These are the three dominant GSM providers and it is their competition that sets the overall tone for the sector. Each have reported drops in some key...
With penetration rates nearing 100% and network coverage encompassing almost all of the country, Indonesia’s wireless communications sector is approaching maturity. Furthermore, average revenue per user is falling and the main providers are now looking for other ways to keep profits from sagging. It is at this point in the development of a wireless...
Adverse weather has hit the world’s third largest cocoa producer hard the past two years, first with La Niña bringing copious amounts of rain followed by a dry spell from May to August 2011 and a prolonged infestation of damaging cascular-streak dieback disease. These extremes have put the brakes on production and exports, which had been...
Following the dissemination of studies by the World Bank and others that show a link between technology take-up and economic growth, the developing world has become awash with road maps, master plans, frameworks and other strategies to get connected, train young workers and move into the knowledge economy. In 2010 Indonesia’s Ministry of...
As an archipelago consisting of around17,500 islands and with a coastline of some 81,000 km, Indonesia is uniquely endowed in its access to aquatic natural resources. The Indonesian fisheries industry produced a total of 10.85m tonnes in 2010, up from 9.82m tonnes in 2009 according to data from the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF)....
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