A total of 116 cases of dumping have been filed against Indonesia by 32 export destinations between the establishment of the World Trade Organization in 1995 and 2007, a trade official

Jakarta – The Indonesian rupiah strengthened to Rp 10,200 against the US dollar in the interbank market Friday morning, Antara state news agency reported.

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Jusuf Kalla is selling a line on economic nationalism to top business people, despite his family's close business ties with Japan.

Jakarta – Indonesia's palm oil business, already hit by lower prices, risks an overseas buyers boycott, with NGOs saying government plans for huge plantations in Kalimantan may mean big

Ardian Wibisono – Indonesia's economic blues may be one step closer to fading, at least if consumer sentiment is anything to go by.

Angela Macdonald-Smith – The East Timor government said it doesn't intend to approve plans that Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Australia's second-largest oil and gas producer, has said it wil

Aloysius Unditu – East Timor, the world's newest democracy, may invest about 10 percent of a $4.6 billion petroleum fund in regional equities seeking to diversify from US Treasuries, th

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang – Hundreds of cooperatives in Malang city are threatened by insolvency as an increasing number of them go out of business, said a local expert recently.

Jakarta – Jakarta's Statistics Agency announced Friday Jakarta experienced a deflation of 0.15 percent in April.

Benget Besalicto Tnb., Jakarta – Inflation continued to ease in April, giving the central bank lee-way to further cut its key interest rate to spur economic growth, which slowed after a

Dian Ariffahmi – Political campaigning is being credited with a surge in advertising spending, with figures released on Tuesday showing that total advertising spending in the first quar

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – Forty five local firms have been surveyed on this year's business operations amid the continuing global downturn, and the result is hardly a surprise – more t

Yoga Rusmana – Exports of natural rubber from Indonesia, the second-biggest grower, plunged 32 percent by volume in the first quarter in a bigger reduction than targeted by the country'

Jakarta – Indonesia boasts the highest consumer confidence index in the world, a survey by the Nielsen Company shows, effectively brushing off any threat to economic activities here fro

Mustaqim Adamrah and Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia's economic recovery will depend heavily on how reforms in the US and Europe manage to lift them out of the worst downturn in d

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – The Indonesian capital market has retained its position as the third most optimistic market in the Asia-Pacific region in the first quarter of this year.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia will launch the "I Love Indonesia" logo, a move to encourage Indonesians to love and appreciate locally made goods and services, Minister of Trade

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – The Bali Investment Board has recorded a 99 percent drop in investment plans on the island in the first quarter this year.

Dicky Kristanto, Jakarta – Indonesian bank loans' growth is expected to halve to around 15-16 percent in 2009 from about 30 percent last year, a deputy central bank governor said, amid

Jakarta – Stronger growth in private consumption and recovering overseas demand will lead to higher economic growth for Indonesia next year, the central bank says.

Erwida Maulia and Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Constrained by the global downturn, Indonesia only managed to collect Rp 162 trillion (US$14.57 billion) in state revenue during the first

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Having been falling since the last quarter of 2008, the country's industries – mainly those aimed at the domestic market – have begun to show signs of perkin

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – While the rise in exports to the US in February compared to January bucked the trend to a slump in overall exports and was encouraging, high-ranking official

Jakarta – As the global downturn is still nowhere near recovering, Indonesia's exports – having dropped 30 percent in the first quarter – will fall even faster in the second three-month

Jakarta – The economy may have grown by 4.6 percent in the first quarter of the year from a year earlier, as the elections helped pushed up consumption, the finance minister says.

Arijit Ghosh and Aloysius Unditu – Indonesia's central bank may ease some bad-loan rules to enable lenders to boost credit as growth in Southeast Asia's biggest economy slows to an eigh

Jakarta – For the fifth month in a row, the central bank slashed its key interest rate to bolster domestic demand and stimulate economic growth slowed by a sharp drop in exports.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Exports have continued falling, by another third in February, signaling a further drop in forecast growth, says the Central Statistics Agency (BPS).

Dion Bisara & Muhamad Al Azhari – The nation's exports continued to fall in February, off by nearly 33 percent year-on-year and 1.02 percent month-on-month to $7.08 billion, the Cen

Indonesia's export performance in February dropped by 36.86 percent in terms of value compared to the same period last year, the Central Statistics Agency reported on Wednesday.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The central bank has cut its forecast for Indonesia's economic growth this year, as the impacts of the global economic turmoil look likely to hit the country

Alfian, Jakarta – Major parties promised to treat foreign investors equally, although their representatives did not elaborate on whether they would maintain or revise business regulatio

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia is unlikely to follow the path taken by regional peers to allow the local currency to fall against the dollar to make exports more competitive amid

Jakarta – Indonesians should prepare for the worst as the global economy looks set to slide further over the next few years, economists and alumni from the association of the National R

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Jose Ramos-Horta has intervened to delay a controversial $400 million deal to buy three highly polluting second-hand power stations for East Timor.

Jakarta – The food and beverage sector will be one of the business sectors to directly benefit from the general elections, with producers expecting the five-yearly event to generate Rp

Mustaqim Adamrah and Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia has proposed to world's big economies a kind of facility that will help companies extend their matured debts to cope with the

Muhammad Al Azhari – The country's chief economic minister and a top banking official are apparently at odds about the risks that private sector debt, which is due to roll over this yea

Jakarta – More than 40,000 workers in Jakarta have lost their jobs so far this year, according to the Jakarta chapter of the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo).

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia has officially agreed US$5.5 billion of loans from Australia, Japan, the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help fill shortfal

Lilian Karunungan – Indonesia's rupiah erased losses on speculation the central bank intervened to support the currency. Government bonds rose.

Teguh Prasetyo – Indonesian exporters are projecting an increasingly bleak outlook for the coming months, with January-April orders likely to drop by as much as 30 percent, particularly

Muhamad Al Azhari – Emerging-market countries such as Indonesia are struggling for increasingly scarce liquidity in global financial markets as they compete with the US Treasury's plans

Jakarta – In addition to declining exports, Indonesia's industry is under another threat of equally great significance – a continued drop in imports of key raw materials.

Aloysius Unditu and Arijit Ghosh – Indonesia's exports fell the most in more than 22 years in January and inflation slowed the following month, increasing scope for the central bank to

The rupiah has weakened again for the seventh straight week, prompting the government to search for new ways to stabilize the volatile currency.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Legislators approved late on Tuesday a provision in the 2009 state budget that enables the government to unleash its much-needed stimulus package, and even i

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The government will continue trying to improve the investment climate, which has been reformed since 2005, to attract more investment to stimulate the countr

Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank will support the rupiah currency and may "add more ammunition" to contain the volatility, the central bank governor said on Friday, reiterating earlie

Endy M. Bayuni, Sydney – Australia wants a better investment climate and Indonesia wants assistance with its own production capacity.