Jakarta – The Directorate General of Taxation said on Monday it raised Rp 444.2 trillion ($49.74 billion) in tax revenues in the first nine months of this year, up 18 percent from the s
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October 11, 2010
October 9, 2010
Jakarta – Regional administrations will have greater local tax potential following the implementation of a new law on regional tax and levies that would give them the authority to colle
September 22, 2010
Dion Bisara, Jakarta – An initiative by the central bank encouraging poor Indonesians to open bank accounts has attracted little interest from the tens of millions of low-income citizen
August 27, 2010
Irvan Tisnabudi, Jakarta – As the economy gains steam, banks are growing more aggressive in marketing credit cards to increasingly wealthy consumers, targeting 25 percent increases on t
August 4, 2010
Dion Bisara, Camelia Pasandaran & Reuters – Jakarta – The days when small shops give change in sweets instead of contemptible Rp 100 or Rp 200 coins will be a thing of the past – so
April 13, 2010
The rupiah hit its highest level since July 2007 on Monday as foreign investors continued to snap up Indonesia's financial assets, leading some exporters to express concerns about its s
April 8, 2010
Heru Andriyanto & Armando Siahaan – After surviving criticism from the public and lawmakers over his part in approving the Bank Century bailout, Vice President Boediono was accused
December 30, 2009
Andi Haswidi, Jakarta – Praises for achievements made by Indonesia's financial sector in 2009, which include surviving an unprecedented global liquidity crisis, seem to be overshadowed
December 13, 2008
Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – The regional stock market collapse, tumbling commodity prices and the fall in the value of the local currency have taken a toll on the country's 40 wealthiest
September 6, 2008
Aditya Suharmoko and Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – The rupiah suffered its biggest daily drop in nearly 10 months on Friday, falling by 1.3 percent to close at 9,375 against the US dollar,
February 13, 2008
Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) move to revise its 1995 safeguard policy drew strong criticism from Indonesian civil society organizations Tuesday.
July 26, 2007
Jakarta – An anti-debt group is demanding the government stop adding debt to fund the state budget because they said most of the agreed loan commitments have not yet been disbursed.
July 23, 2007
John A. Prasetio, Jakarta – A decade ago, almost without warning, the Asian economic crisis arrived to challenge the "East Asia Miracle" thesis of the World Bank.
Binny Buchori, Jakarta – What do we remember about the economic crisis of 10 years ago?
James Castle, Jakarta – For anyone involved in business or policy in developing Asia, the boom and bust of the 1990s are the defining events of the last twenty years.
Vincent Lingga, Jakarta – In early July 1997, when the Thai baht crashed and lost more than 50 percent of its value against the dollar immediately after the Bank of Thailand floated the
February 17, 2007
Jakarta – Outstanding loans to small and medium enterprises amount to Rp 426 trillion (about US$47.33 billion), or more than 50 percent of the total loans extended by the banking indust
April 23, 2006
Jakarta – Dress smart if you want to convince the bank manager you deserve a loan. But for businesswomen, they should also bring their husbands along.
August 8, 2005
Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Continuing high global oil prices have put Indonesia's fiscal stability teetering on a tightrope as the oil-producing country fails to benefit from the situation
June 28, 2005
M Fajar Marta, Jakarta – The domination of foreign interests in the domestic banking industry continues to grow.
January 27, 2005
Leony Aurora, Jakarta – Major players in the banking industry have welcomed Bank Indonesia's effort to speed up the sector's consolidation through a new policy on the injection of funds
March 16, 2004
Jakarta – The Indonesian government Tuesday issued Rp 2 trillion ($1=IDR8,457) of bonds with a weighted average yield of 11.57%, the finance ministry said.
December 1, 2003
Sandy Darmosumarto, Jakarta – The lack of financial institutions in the eastern part of Indonesia is the main reason for the state-owned pawnshop company Perum Pegadaian to further expa
March 14, 2002
Jakarta – US investment firm Farallon has won the bidding to buy Bank Central Asia (BCA), Indonesia's largest retail bank, the government said Thursday.
February 26, 2002
Jakarta – A political stalemate and lack of legal certainty are hampering efforts to reform and restructure Indonesia's banks, Moody's Investors Service warned Monday.
October 20, 2001
Dili – Indonesia's currency, the rupiah, especially of the Rp 5000 to Rp 50000 denomination, is still legally accepted as a means of exchange in Timor Lorosae, along with the US dollar.
August 29, 2001
Joe Leahy – Building a central bank from scratch in one of the world's poorest countries was never going to be easy.
August 26, 2001
David DeVoss – The East Timor branch of Portugal's Banco Nacional Ultramarino in Dili looks like a modern financial institution.
July 9, 2001
Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky said "there is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it".
June 8, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank (BI) and the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) on Friday agreed to repatriate the equivalent of around 20 million dollars of Indon
May 30, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor In an effort to mend an economy devastated by the violence that accompanied the Indonesian withdrawal in 1999, the United Nations transitional administratio
May 17, 2001
The withdrawal of Indonesian rupiahs from Timor Lorosae was a good step because it would prevent confusion in currency usage in the country.
May 11, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – United Nations economic planners have launched a campaign to ensure the US dollar is the sole legal tender in East Timor.
Joanna Jolly, Dili – The head of the UN Central Payments Office, which manages the territory's tiny and shattered economy, told reporters that the world body was taking legal steps and
April 13, 2001
The World Bank has cancelled a three-hundred million dollar loan to help Indonesia's poor.
April 3, 2001
Indonesia's Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) yesterday rejected a local newspaper report that key officials, including the agency's chief, planned to resign.
December 7, 2000
Robert Go, Jakarta – Governor Syahril Sabirin reclaimed the helm at Bank Indonesia yesterday after a six-month detention period, escalating the three-way power tussle between President
October 12, 2000
Jakarta – A fire badly damaged the Audit and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) building in Central Jakarta yesterday, destroying documents on the huge liquidity loans given by the c
June 24, 2000
Robert Go, Jakarta – The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) would be investigated for holding back nearly eight trillion rupiah (S$1.68 billion) worth of funds that should have
June 6, 2000
Jonathan Thatcher, Jakarta – A growing feud between Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid and his scandal-tainted central bank governor threatens more damage to the country's already p
May 29, 2000
Nearly seven months in office, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid can claim great achievements.
Edhi Pranasidhi, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has extended a ban on 128 bankers and shareholders of closed banks from traveling abroad, according to a decree signed by Finance Mi
April 17, 2000
Dili – Portuguese national guardsmen serving with the UN police force in East Timor were called Friday to the BNU bank in Dili, to control a crowd dissatisfied with a revised exchange r
January 24, 2000
Dili – East Timor will adopt the US dollar as its official currency under United Nations rule, a senior member of the National Council for Timorese Resistance (CNRT) told Reuters on Mon
January 15, 2000
Michael Richardson, Singapore – Like many other institutions from the rule of former President Suharto of Indonesia, the headquarters of the central bank in Jakarta has an impressive fa
January 13, 2000
Tim Dodd, Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday sacked a key economic official over the snail-like pace of banking reform, which is becoming a drag on economic reco
December 31, 1999
Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank, Bank Indonesia, said early Saturday that it passed the year date change – Y2K – without any computer glitches.
December 4, 1999
Jakarta – Bank Indonesia's deputy governor Ahjar Iljas said on Friday that Texmaco was among 20 exporting companies which received a preshipment rediscount facility from the central ban
December 3, 1999
Mark Dodd, Dili – As East Timor struggles to rebuild, a United Nations decision to introduce the Portuguese escudo into the fragile economy has caused mass confusion among an impoverish
October 22, 1999
Darwin – East Timor resistance leaders plan to use the Portuguese escudo as their currency for at least the territory's transitional period under UN administration.