Singapore – Dutch brewer Heineken said on Thursday it will begin building a beverage plant in East Timor this year that will manufacture a range of drinks including beer.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Unlike previous years, 2014 was not an easy one for the country's manufacturing sector as low demand in the global market and the sharp depreciation of the Indonesian curr

Jakarta – The government is determined to stimulate investment in import substitution, a move which it says is certain to reduce demand for US dollars as a result of the high dependency

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – Indonesia's manufacturing sector improved in April at their fastest rate in almost a year as Southeast Asia's largest economy continued to grow, boosting demand

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the industry bill into law to promote, among other things, the enhancement of downstream activities, replacing

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Domestic biofuel producers are anticipating a rise in demand next year, possibly a triple increase, particularly following the recent issuance of a regulation

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Business groups have demanded the government to put local interests as their top priority when it revises the negative investment list (DNI) by giving them amp

Raras Cahyafitri and Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Several manufacturers are considering delaying the importing of their raw materials while others are having to increase the prices of thei

Nurfika Osman and Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – As the government has withheld its approval for PT Pegadaian and PT Pos Indonesia to debut on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), it is alm

Indonesia's Supreme Court has scrapped a government ban on the export of unprocessed minerals, the country's chamber of commerce said on Monday, and urged the government to draft new mi

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Business and banking operations as well as travel are expected to get a big boost when Indonesia switches to a single time zone on Oct. 28.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) says that large-scale and mid-scale manufacturing industry's production growth increased by 4.88 percent in the firs

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Of the total 141 state-owned enterprises, 23 companies continued to suffer financial losses last year, according to a State-Owned Enterprises Ministry senior

Lawmakers accused the government on Sunday of violating laws and operating with political motivations in the appointment of directors and commissioners at many state-owned enterprises.

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – A World Bank report shows that despite challenges facing Indonesia, manufacturing is poised to grow as consumer-oriented companies set up businesses in the count

Camelia Pasandaran – Businesses in Indonesia are the fourth-most likely in the world to offer bribes in their dealings, according to a new report by anticorruption group Transparency In

Jakarta – Indonesian furniture makers are reportedly closing down their businesses because the local rattan industry prefers to export its products to China rather than sell them domest

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Indonesia is on track to achieve its growth target in the manufacturing sector on the back of planned incentives and increased investment, an official said.

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Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – The government has scrapped import duties for some raw materials and machinery, but it also hiked tariffs for imported consumer goods in a bid to boost the comp

Indonesia said on Wednesday it was scaling back plans to float several state-owned companies on the stock market, and would carry out just one initial public offering in 2011.

Faisal Maliki Baskoro & Dion Bisara – Controversy generated during recent initial public offerings by state companies has not stopped the government's plans to list even more of its

Eny Wulandari, Jakarta – The value of major manufactured exports jumped dramatically in the first half of the year, and the full-year totals could equal those seen in 2008, before the g

Kirsty Needham – Bringing an oil pipeline to East Timor would do more to alleviate poverty than Australia's $100 million aid program could achieve, East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Ho

Jakarta – Eight under-performing state firms face liquidation under a state enterprises consolidation program, State-Owned Enterprises Minister Mustafa Abubakar says.

Matt Chambers – Woodside Petroleum expects development of the Greater Sunrise gasfields through a floating liquefied natural gas platform to cost more than $US11 billion ($13 billion) –

Jakarta – East Timor has rejected a proposal for a floating liquefied natural gas platform in a disputed Timor Sea gas field as a waste of time and money.

A high stakes dispute between Australian Oil and Gas company Woodside and East Timor's Government has come to a head.

Fidelis E Satriastanti – A fight is brewing over a new environmental law that business interests warn will harm much-needed investment in the country.

Caution is essential in Indonesia's program to sell stakes in state firms because of its politically sensitive nature, the state enterprises minister warned on Wednesday.

Dian Ariffahmi, Irvan Tisnabudi & Muhamad Al Azhari – What were you waiting for?

Benget Besalicto Tnb., Jakarta – Indonesia's forest-based industries remain on the edge of survival after more than a decade of government decentralization that was accompanied by a ser

Janeman Latul – In an apparent policy reversal, the new state enterprises minister announced on Thursday that he might drop plans to publicly list several important state companies if "

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – A large contributor to Indonesia's economy, manufacturing industry, had relatively stagnant growth this year, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) says – but

Steve Holland – An East Timorese government delegation led by Prime Minster Xanana Gusmao is in China looking for support for its bid for a major gas processing plant to be built in Ea

Anthony Deutsch, Jakarta – East Timor's government has designated land to be developed into a regional petrochemicals hub, its top resources official said Thursday, in the latest push t

Benget Besalicto Tnb., Jakarta – The government is pushing liberalization of the railway sector by drafting a regulation on the separation of track management and train service business

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The manufacturing sector may expand faster in the second quarter from a quarter earlier as firms start producing more than in the first quarter, with the eco

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Growth in the manufacturing sector may be better in the second quarter this year as companies start producing again after seeing a still-high consumption gro

Teguh Prasetyo & Dian Ariffhami – The European Union has taken a firm step against illegal logging by adopting stricter certification rules on timber sold within the bloc's markets,

Jakarta – State companies have failed to settle at least Rp 15 trillion (about US$1.3 billion) in matured overseas debts, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) says.

Muhamad Al Azhari & Janeman Latul – In yet another warning that Indonesia is far from being immune to the global economic turmoil, the government has once again cut its target for d

The government plans to sell shares in 30 state owned companies next year, most of them through the initial public offering (IPO) scheme, Deputy State Minister for State Enterprises Muh

Jakarta – Indonesia plans to offer tax incentives in 2009 to help labour-intensive industries as it seeks to boost Southeast Asia's biggest economy amid slowing global demand, a governm

Mustaqim Adamrah and Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The manufacturing sector grew slower in the third quarter of the year, due to a decline in output in some of the country's top industrie

Mustaqim Adamrah and Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The government has unveiled plans for aggressive nontariff barriers aimed at protecting the domestic industry from an influx of overseas g

Dili – It's no secret that charity clothes cast off from rich countries end up on the backs of some of the poorest people on earth.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The government has not supported the steady growth of labor-intensive industries over the last six quarters, missing a vital opportunity to reduce unemployme

Jakarta – The country's packaging industry, which boasts revenues of Rp 20 trillion (US$2.18 billion) a year, is suffering from low imports and disrupted local supply due to power cuts,

Johannes Simbolon, Jakarta – The rise in oil prices is happening at the "wrong time" for Indonesia – at a time when the country is struggling to stop or reverse the decline in its oil p