Helmi Arman, EconomistThe U.S. dollar has weakened over a broad range of currencies except the rupiah. Increased uncertainty over fuel subsidies may be to blame.The dollar has to weaken. That's the view one finds in almost all corners of the market nowadays.The dollar bears do have a point.

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Indonesians led the foreign purchasers of apartments in Singapore during the first semester of this year, beating other major foreign buyers such as Malaysians and Indians.

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A senior prosecutor must bribe his own colleagues with Rp 40 million (US$4,400) to get his son a job with the prosecutor's office? Where is their esprit de corps? Why aren't they satisfied just extorting ordinary people?"You must remember that all people are equal before the law," my son said when ...

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NUSA DUA, Bali (JP): Having steered its new Investment Law through parliament, the government's next step will be to lay out the red carpet for local and international investors by easing the bureaucratic obstacles to doing business in Indonesia.

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