JAKARTA - As Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono enters his third year in office, the world's most populous Muslim country is widely viewed simultaneously as one of the region's most stable democracies yet one of its most unpredictable economies.

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Shares of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) will become the focus of attention of market players this week.This is triggered by the government's plan to issue the blueprint of SOEs privatization as part of its policy package in the monetary sector, which will be released...

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Sofjan Wanandi, Head of the Association of Indonesian Entrepreneurs, has said he doubts the government's investment growth target of 10.5 percent by the end of 2006.The Infrastructure Summit is considered of not being capable of boosting the investment target by around...

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: PT Pertamina (Persero) is asking that the government re-examine the price mechanism of biosolar raw materials such as fatty acid methyl ester (FAME).The reason for this, according to Hanung Budya, Pertamina’s Deputy Director for Marketing and Trade, the price mechanism...