With China and India seeing unprecedented growth over the past decade, global trade has increasingly pivoted towards Asia, putting ASEAN in a favourable position to capitalise on new regional opportunities. Official integration of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is set to have a dramatic impact on future trade growth, both within ASEAN and...
Since his first overseas trip as president in November 2014, to the APEC summit in Beijing, President Joko Widodo has taken a proactive role in strengthening and diversifying Indonesia’s bilateral relations. As the dominant political and economic power in ASEAN, Indonesia’s participation in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will have a...
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...
Considering their historic relationship, how can greater cooperation between New Zealand and ASEAN be encouraged?
What policy measures are needed to protect Indonesia from external macroeconomic shocks?
In the beginning of 2016 Indonesia experienced a pleasant surprise. Although the stock market in China had declined significantly, triggering circuit-breakers, even as the stock market in the US declined and the price of crude oil plummeted, our currency, the rupiah, was stable and our stock-market went down only slightly. Our fourth-quarter...
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