Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Investors will be allowed to kick off the construction of their factories and other investment facilities without having to wait for the issuance of environmental assessment

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Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Companies running mineral smelters and those developing them are demanding incentives from the government to help sustain their processing activities amid pressu

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – Policymakers need to start focusing more on the development of the services sector and high-skilled manufacturing to reduce dependence on commodities, which have

Khoirul Amin, Manila – The country's non-oil and gas manufacturing industry is forecast to remain stagnant in the last quarter of this year as most of the government's economic policy p

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo departed on Saturday to the US on his first visit to the superpower, where he is scheduled to hold a meeting with President Barack Obama

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Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Two prominent environmentalists criticized on Thursday President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's decision to protect small and medium furniture-makers and craft-producers, a se

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Concerns over a widening current account deficit have temporarily eased as Indonesia posted a larger than-expected trade surplus in February despite signs of slowing manuf

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – The government may make existing tax allowances applicable to labor-intensive industries in an effort to reach its 2-million-a-year job-creation target, an official with t

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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.

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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