Post crisis Indonesian infrastructure development has so far seen little growth, especially in projects relating to public and toll road infrastructure, power generation and other infrastructure facilities.

The world's largest geothermal energy producer, Chevron Corp., officially opened the third unit of its Darajat power plant in Garut, West Java, on Tuesday, providing electricity to an additional 700,000 homes.

Despite the high price of cooking oil, the government has no plans to apply a domestic market obligation (DMO) to crude palm oil producers -- which would force them to set aside part of their output for the domestic market -- to help stabilize the price, a minister said Tuesday.

 Originally Posted By: WB report“Moving over poor roads, lacking cold chains and logistics services while dealing with entrenched bad business practices, Indonesian farmers face formidable odds. That is the closest they come to the heart of the problem and by far the greatest single cost of...

You see that all the time in Sumatra, empty Oil Drums laid across the road, only being removed when you have paid the toll!

Back to the original post... This is typical of WB/UN type of reports where they are either too naive or too afraid to talk about corruption as the real problem.As far as transporting produce, BY FAR the highest cost (which gets passed on to the consumer) is not the cost of fuel, the trucks or the...