Indonesian Political, Business & Finance News

Archive: 18 August 2010

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Businesses Say Another Electricity Rate Hike Could ‘Kill’ Competitive Advantage

Jakarta. Fresh on the heels of July’s unpopular electricity rate hikes, the government’s announcement on Monday of a fresh set of rises early next year immediately drew more anger from the business community.

Yudhoyono Gets Backlash for Plain Speech

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Political oppositions, whether official or conjunctural, has dismissed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's annual state address before the parliament to mark the independece day at the beginning of this week as unconvincing "camouflage" which failed to...

Indonesia expected to draw investment of $22.3 bln next year

JAKARTA, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's Investment Coordinating Board targeted to draw an investment of more than 200 trillion rupiah (about 22.3 billion U.S. dollars) next year, increasing 15 percent compared to this year, Bisnis Indonesia daily quoted an official as saying on Wednesday.

Indonesia`s exports may decline next year

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia`s next year`s export growth may reached only 8.3 percent, while this year`s growth has reached 12.2 percent.Minister of Trade Mari Elka Pangestu told a press conference on the Financial Note and the 2011 Draft State Budget at her office in Jakarta Monday night that...