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...
Following a decade of averaging 6% growth per year, Indonesia’s economy faced both external and internal challenges in 2013. The world’s 16th-largest economy with GDP of Rp8242trn ($824bn) in 2012, which is a fourfold increase in a decade, and the fourth-most populated with 247m citizens, Indonesia has strong fundamentals for long-term growth....
Following decentralisation, how can long-standing bureaucratic inefficiencies be reduced, and what safeguards might prevent abuse of power?
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