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Archive: 16 March 2009

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Emaar Withdraws From US$600 Million Lombok Project

Virtually all of this airport project has been run out of Jakarta. The NTB provincial govt and Central Lombok regency are really small fish. I don't doubt that they had their hand out for both the airport and the Emaar project, but they don't hold much power on these big projects.

Furniture Entrepreneurs Disappointed at Government’s Lack of Support

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Businessmen from the Indonesian Furniture and Handicraft Industry Association are greatly disappointed at the lack of government support in promoting and marketing furniture products.

Five New Mining Regulations to be Issued in 2010

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Mineral, Coal, and Geothermal director-general, Bambang Setiawan, is aiming to produce five drafts on 28 guidelines to complement the Mineral and Coal Law by 2010. He said the drafts cover mining areas, mineral and coal businesses, mining regulations and supervision, as...

Emaar Withdraws From US$600 Million Lombok Project

“Corruption in international megaprojects is commonplace in our country, especially on the part of local government officials,” he said. “Middle Eastern investors will have a problem with that.”Although that wasn't BAE's experience in Saudi?

Bali Property Ownership by Foreigners

Thanks K3C, understood and thanks again for a very timely post. This stuff is all pretty confusing for non legal types. It's already taken me months to get to some level of understanding and I still can't decide what to do! I guess I am still concerned about being separated from my hard-earned cash!

Bali Property Ownership by Foreigners

Originally Posted By: chewwyUKwhat is happening to the revision that will allow foreign ownership of property?? nothing. that's just the usual annual beat-up from the english language media. you may quote me: "it won't happen"what *may* happen, at some time in the future, is that...

Bali Property Ownership by Foreigners

what is happening to the revision that will allow foreign ownership of property??

Emaar Withdraws From US$600 Million Lombok Project

Nice one. An important story wihich our "Elites" will now try to explain away as being due to Emaars own financial problems? In fact that's already starting I see. After all, it never is the fault of anyone in Indonesia, is it!

Bali Property Ownership by Foreigners

Originally Posted By: DontpanicAny Company, Indonesian or foreign capital, can only own land with HGB title. correct. this is direct ownership, where the land title is in the name of the company. this is generally the preferred option for long-term ownership.

Emaar Withdraws From US$600 Million Lombok Project

The Jakarta Post doesn't seem to covering any of this?

Emaar Withdraws From US$600 Million Lombok Project

Janeman LatulEmaar: Just the Start?The announcement that Dubai’s state-owned Emaar Properties PJSC has pulled the plug on a $600 million property project on Lombok Island may be a signal of worse to come, business players and analysts said on Sunday .

Bali Property Ownership by Foreigners

Thanks for the clarification but now I'm even more confused. Any Company, Indonesian or foreign capital, can only own land with HGB title. You suggested in an earlier post that a PMA should become the beneficial owner in a nominee structure.

Bali Property Ownership by Foreigners

"HGB atas Hak Milik"?! i dont think so! that is compeltely impossible.you may mean "Hak Pakai atas Hak Milik", which is very common in bali, and not very useful, in my opinion. it's really no more than a long term lease.

Bali Property Ownership by Foreigners

Thanks for that, very helpful as I'm in the process of trying to secure a small pied a terre in Bali at present. As this was explained to me by my lawyer in Jakarta, it was very common in Bali until recently to set up a PMA with the sole intention of buying a property.

Plantation industry aims big despite economic crisis

The Jakarta Post, Bogor, West Java Betting on higher prices for top commodities and the emergence of new markets, the country’s plantation industry is seeking to buck the trend and expects export values this year to increase by 16 percent.

Govt gears up to limit free trade deal adversities

The Agriculture Ministry has proposed Rp 145 billion (US$12.18 million) this year from the stimulus package to boost the competitiveness of the country’s meat, milk and dairy businesses against foreign competitors, ministry officials said Saturday. (JP/J.

Emaar Withdraws From US$600 Million Lombok Project

Most of the funding (about 75%) for the Lombok International Airport is (supposed to be) coming from Angkasa Pura (the state-owned firm that runs airports) and the rest from the NTB provincial govt and Central Lombok regional govt.

Emaar Withdraws From US$600 Million Lombok Project

To be known as the "Bridge to nowhere" International airport, conveniently located 2 hours away from existing tourism infrastructure in Senggigi?The commissions for the boys on this project must have been really juicy?In terms of ROI, wouldn't the completion of the Jakarta our ring road,...

Emaar Withdraws From US$600 Million Lombok Project

Originally Posted By: Jungle GeorgeWrong, the airport was started before Emaar entered the pictureThe whole Emaar development area is just a takeover of the area previously held by Bambang Tri's LTDC, which had been doing its land grabbing and development planning since before the new airport was...

Emaar Withdraws From US$600 Million Lombok Project

Well we'll see. It looked to be well under construction when I passed it at Xmas. However, economic depression and all that. Work may well grind to a halt. Not much point building it if the Ay-rab resorts don't materialise is there?

Bali Property Ownership by Foreigners

Originally Posted By: chewwyUK"Rainy Hendriany: The legal options remain largely unchanged except that the route of ownership of a single residential property investment via a foreign-investment or PMA company many no longer be available"Any comments kuku?? this is only partially true in...

Bali Property Ownership by Foreigners

"Rainy Hendriany: The legal options remain largely unchanged except that the route of ownership of a single residential property investment via a foreign-investment or PMA company many no longer be available"Any comments kuku??