The advent of new rules on cabotage, coupled with vibrant GDP growth, a strong rupiah and robust domestic consumer demand, has put Indonesia’s merchant fleet under considerable pressure on to deliver. This has resulted in a surge of boat buying by the country’s shipping companies, with financing for this capital expenditure (capex) a going concern...
As part of its new drive to address the country’s historic transport problems, the government is turning its attention to Indonesia’s rail network. The rail system is currently far shorter and more fragmented than its neighbours, with one Trans-Java network and three self-contained lines in Sumatra. Moreover, of the roughly 6900 km of narrow-gauge (...
Although the country’s economy is a multi-faceted one, in which energy, agriculture, manufacturing and financial services are key parts of the mix, the attention in 2011 was not on the economy’s heavy hitters, but rather on the playing field in which they operate. The hot topic across the archipelago is improving infrastructure, as fast as...
An archipelago of over 17,500 islands, Indonesia is today the world’s fourth-largest country by population, at 245m. The astonishing diversity of ethnicities and cultures comes together in a democratic framework under the pancasila, or “five principles”: nationalism, humanitarianism, representative democracy, social welfare and monotheism
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