Interview: Notary Rainy Hendriany Provides Latest Update on Rules for Land Ownership by Foreigners in Bali, Indonesia. Despite failed promises by the Indonesian government to liberalize the rules on foreign land ownership and expectations that the international real estate conference held in Bali...

Indonesian top politicians and policy makers are all talking about our competitiveness in the world market. Some are quoting the results of World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) 2007 and 2010, which basically demonstrates the lack of competitiveness in the Indonesian logistics system.

Quoting: flingwing This, then, prompts the question: “how can we convert our long-term, often hard-won knowledge of this place into money now”? so, you want to monetize your experience here? problem is, most newbies coming to this country don't value such experience.

An increasingly image-conscious Indonesia is seeing a boom in plastic surgery. The industry has enjoyed 400 percent growth over the past five years, according to a representative of the Indonesian Plastic Surgeons Association (Perapi). Dr.

Labor costs and the value of China’s currency are sending ripples around Asia as countries jostle to lure manufacturers that are rethinking their Chinese operations, analysts and officials said. Worker unrest at foreign-owned factories and the prospect of higher wage costs are causing some...

The Agriculture Ministry is renewing calls for Australia to open its borders to Indonesian fruit as part of ambitious efforts to grow the country’s tiny fruit export industry by thirtyfold by the end of the year.

That article is a veritable tour-de-force of economic history. In it, it states something an investment counselor said: “When we started out in 2003, nobody wanted to look at Indonesia”. For many “old hands” we can go one better.