With foreign direct investment (FDI) up, factories being built and real estate booming, the construction sector in Indonesia is expanding rapidly. The government is undertaking programmes to improve infrastructure, building roads, airports, railways and ports. This is partly the result of some long-delayed expenditure, with the country’s transport...
In Indonesia cigarettes are about much more than smoking. Like everywhere, the product is also about tax, revenue, business and health. It is relevant and important to many aspects of society and the economy. But in Indonesia, tobacco also has some fairly serious political and ultimately nationalistic aspects not often found elsewhere. Its sale and...
Long a stalwart of Indonesia’s economic development, particularly in terms of exports, the country’s mining and quarrying industry maintains a steady presence despite fluctuations in both global commodity prices and domestic mining policies. Claiming some of the world’s most expansive reserves of valuable minerals and largest operational mines, the...
The country’s insurance sector stands out as the fastest growing and most promising in South-east Asia, even within a region widely seen as the most attractive for the world’s major underwriters. Supported by rapid economic growth spurred by domestic consumption in the past decade, the sector has averaged compound annual growth of 20% in gross...
Endowed with substantial energy reserves spread across its vast territory, Indonesia has been among the region’s largest producers and exporters of fossil fuels for decades. While this trend shows little sign of changing, the sector is in the midst of a dramatic shift in the composition of its resources. With crude production in decline, natural gas...
The country has been one of the region’s early adopters of a risk-based capital (RBC) regulatory framework, since 2005. Despite improvements in risk weightings, however, the industry still suffers a significant gap across players in terms of risk management processes, with larger local and foreign players in line with international best practices...
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