State-run PT Telkom, Indonesia's largest telecommunication company, recently released this year's first quarter results that suggest a continuing tough operating environment in the telecommunication sector.Revenue was down 2.

JAKARTA -(Dow Jones)- The Indonesian government may by June set up a guarantee fund as part of ongoing efforts to draw more private investment into infrastructure, a senior government official said Wednesday.

The government is considering ending the controversial contract worker scheme passed in 2003, which has increasingly been used by companies to hire workers outside the boundaries of the country’s tight labor laws that make it almost impossible to fire employees.