PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) and four other Indonesian financial institutions have been voted the best financial institutions in the country in the latest evaluation by Alpha South East Asia, an investment magazine based in Hong Kong. Besides BRI, which was named best bank, the other three are PT Bank Mandiri, Mandiri Sekuritas and PT Danareksa Sekuritas.

Despite an increase in supply, Greater Jakarta witnessed a slide in sales of office space during the second quarter of the year compared to the January-March period. In the second quarter, as reported Friday by property developer and consultant Coldwell Banker Commercial Indonesia, the supply of office space rose by 17,850 square meters, or 42.8 percent, from the first three months of 2007, bringing the total stock to 473,660 square meters.