Italian businesses in Indonesia

Italian businesses in Indonesia

We, Italian businesspeople of the Italian Business Association in Indonesia (IBAI), believe in Indonesia, its natural riches and potential. But most of all, we believe in its people, because with them, we work daily in firms and in the marketplace.

We believe in Indonesia not only because of the law of numbers or the statistics, but especially because we know its achievements in the past 30 years, and particularly its recent history. No country in the world could have endured a terrible economic crisis at exactly the same time as an unavoidable political turnaround without collapsing or resorting to dictatorship or extremism. Indonesia had the strength and the inner balance to start instead the always troubled way to democracy.

Italy and its culture are well-known in Indonesia. Who does not remember Vespa, Fiat, Olivetti, Carlo Erba and others, so present in Indonesia since the early 1960s. New names have been joining the list, and IBAI was founded in 1994 to unite old and new Italian companies present in Indonesia.

IBAI is with Indonesia, the vibrant Indonesia of today. In order to become a better partner now and in the future, IBAI wants to become soon a full-fledged bilateral Chamber of Commerce. It is not only to join the other major trading partners of Indonesia, but especially in order to join forces with Indonesian companies interested in Italian products and in the Italian market.

Together with our Embassy and the Italian-Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry will be the expression of Italy's confirmed belief in the progress and the development of Indonesia.

L.C. Gastel

IBAI President