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Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – The government is planning to allow alcoholic beverage producers to expand their output in a move to meet increasing domestic and overseas demand.

Gita Rossiana – The growth rate in lending by Indonesian banks fell in June as consumers delayed purchasing high-price items like cars or motorcycles amid fears of rising inflation.

Jakarta – Issues surrounding Tanjung Priok Port's dwelling time are heating up, with logistics and forwarding firms accusing state-owned port operator Pelindo II of taking benefits from

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Businesses and consumers are to suffer further losses as the time it takes for goods to enter and leave Tanjung Priok Port – the country's main port – continues

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Indonesia's economic growth is at risk of falling below 6 percent for the first time in more than two years as growth drivers such as domestic consumption

Jakarta – The government has promised to remove all the permits deemed to have hampered investment activities both in the manufacturing sector and oil and gas sectors amid growing conce

Dili – Timor-Leste is on track to post growth of 9.5% in 2013 the strongest rate in the Pacific region but some downside risks for the economy loom, says the latest Pacific Economic Mon

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – All signs point to a less than rosy outlook for Indonesia, as weaker purchasing power is poised to drag down economic growth, which is already under press

Ritchie King – That extreme outlier in the chart above, the one throwing off the entire scale – that's East Timor.

East Timor's Oil Fund grew by US$1.2 billion in the first quarter of the year to US$13 billion at the end of March, said the East Timor Central Bank in Dili Monday.

Tassia Sipahutar and Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Declining consumer spending and lower investment have unexpectedly caused a drag on the country's economic growth, leading to its slowest

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Five years ago, property agent Daisul Akhyar took 20 minutes to drive to work in Pekanbaru, capital of Indonesia's Riau province.

East Timor is the second of only two countries in Asia that in 2013 and 2014 are expected to post economic growth of two figures, with 10 percent growth in both years, according to the

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Healthy economic growth has allowed for the logistics industry to enjoy a 14.5 percent growth to Rp 1,634 trillion (US$168.3 billion) this year, creating strong

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – The slow disbursement of the state budget for infrastructure development may further threaten growth in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) that ha

Dion Bisara – The World Bank has cut its growth forecast for Indonesia this year as the pace of domestic investment recedes and pressures on the country's external balance intensify due

The Portuguese secretary of state for Energy, Artur Trindade, is due Tuesday to begin an official visit to East Timor in the company of Portuguese businesspeople, the State Secretariat

A conference intended to find partners for construction of Eat Timor's new port and airport has taken place in Dili, organised by the Timorese government with the support of the Interna

Dion Bisara & Fracezka Nangoy – Indonesia's inflation accelerated at its fastest pace in 20 months in February as consumers started to pay higher electricity bills and prices of som

Indonesia's rupiah fell by the most in a week as the nation posted its fourth monthly trade deficit in January, weighing on the current account.

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo said Wednesday that there was no 'political pressure' behind his nomination as the Bank Indonesia (BI) governor.

Zakir Hussain – Congested streets and growing consumer demand suggest that Indonesia's robust economic growth continues to benefit many.

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Jakarta – Indonesia's current account deficit in 2012 was 2.7 percent of gross domestic product, wider than the initial target of 2.4 percent, the central bank said on Wednesday.

Dion Bisara – Rising consumer income in Indonesia has prompted citizens to shop till they drop and spend more on discretionary goods and services, according to a survey by Credit Suisse

Dion Bisara – Foreign direct investment in Indonesia accelerated in the final quarter of last year due in part to investment in the metal, machinery and electronics industries.

Mariel Grazella, Dili – Indonesia and Timor Leste are keen for Indonesian state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to invest in Timor Leste to accelerate economic and infrastructure development,

East Timor is striking out on its own after 13 years of UN protection, facing the daunting challenge of how to retool its economy and ease its dependence on energy to tunnel out of pove

SP/Robertus Wardi – The hidden fees of doing business in Indonesia are a major factor keeping investors at bay and undermining the country's economic competitiveness, an analyst says.

Jakarta – Blaming bleak global economic prospects, Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo has thrown in the towel on the government's ambitious economic targets for this year.

John McBeth – After blowing like a wrecking ball through Indonesia's mining industry, the winds of nationalism are now buffeting the oil and gas sector, with a legislative revision rais

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan estimates that Indonesia's annual trade deficit could be as much as US$2 billion in 2012, as a downward trend in exports continued

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Yudith Ho – Indonesia's rupiah fell for a second week on concern the local supply of dollars trails demand as exports are predicted to have dropped for an eighth month.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar has proposed incentives for companies to help resolve disputes between workers and their employers o

Yudith Ho – Indonesia's rupiah fell to the weakest level since September 2009 as concern the current-account deficit will widen prompted investors to pull funds from the nation's assets

Jakarta – Indonesians remain confident about their country's economic outlook, but their worries about employment opportunities and inflationary pressures persist.

Jakarta – Top government officials have agreed that Indonesia must develop the service sector if the country wants to avoid the middle-income trap, a situation that many international a

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – More than 400,000 jobs were to have resulted for every 1 percent increase in the nation's economic growth rate, according to the 2011 and 2012 state bud

Jakarta – Indonesia's investment shows no sign of slowing down as the country has booked another record high of realized investments in the third quarter this year, thanks to its econom

Richard Javad Heydarian – With the world's third-largest democracy and Asia's fifth-largest economy, Indonesia has emerged as a regional bastion of political stability and economic dyna

Arientha Primanita & Dion Bisara – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has urged developing countries to review restrictions on trade beyond tariff walls in order to boost economic d

Dion Bisara – Strong growth in Indonesia in the first half of the year and an improved trade balance have prompted to World Bank to take a sunnier outlook on the nation's economy in the

Dion Bisara – Indonesia's problems developing infrastructure and reforming the bureaucracy may cost 1 percent to 3 percent of the country's annual GDP growth over the next decades, impe

Raras Cahyafitri, Tokyo – Indonesia risks falling into a so-called middle-income trap if it fails to improve infrastructure needed to sustain faster economic growth, says the Internatio

Raras Cahyafitri, Tokyo – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has once again cut its estimate of Indonesia's economic growth as the global economic slowdown in Europe, the US and Chin

Dion Bisara – The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a strong private business lobby group, called on the government on Tuesday to establish an investment fund to be used to p

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo has warned private companies to properly manage their foreign debts, which have increased substantially.