Novia D. Rulistia, Jakarta – Though rice prices are soaring in the global market, the country's rice production surplus must not be used for exports, analysts say.

Jakarta – An expected fresh cash injection from windfall profits from oil exports will allow the government to afford a soaring allocation for fuel subsidies from the state budget, a mi

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – While the global economic slowdown is not expected to greatly affect Asian economies, Indonesia's biggest challenge lays in subduing its inflation rate to pr

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The President should issue a new decree slashing corporate tax if the House of Representatives refuses to pass the income tax bill, the chairman of the Indonesia

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The World Bank has criticized the government's continuing refusal to cut the onerous fuel subsidy despite evidence the allocation has only benefited wealthy

Tom McCawley, Jakarta – Indonesia, one of Asia's largest fuel exporters, now faces dire power shortages, threatening to hold back an economic recovery which at 6.3 % reached its fastest

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Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – Skyrocketing cooking oil prices have threatened the traditional food industry in Indramayu regency, West Java, putting many cracker producers at risk of going ou

Jakarta – Current global economic conditions have raised concerns whether the market will be receptive to the government's 2008 privatization plan.

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – New investment in the mining sector is likely to grow at a slow pace this year as investors wait for the enactment of a new mining bill being deliberated at t

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Debnath Guharoy, Consultant – The runaway development of shopping malls in Jakarta is living proof of reckless greed, a monumental disaster in the offing.

Jakarta – Despite slower growth in some business sub-sectors, Indonesia is not suffering from "de-industrialization", with manufacturing continuing to play a significant and stable role

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The country's economy grew the fastest in the past 10 years in 2007 due in particular to robust investment and exports, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) r

Jakarta – The government's economic growth target for 2007 of 6.3 percent has been reached.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The government confirmed Friday a plan to revise the economic growth target down from the 6.8 percent stated in the 2008 state budget amid soaring global pri

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Jakarta – The government plans to privatize 44 state companies this year, including 10 companies initially planned to be privatized last year, says a minister.

Jakarta – In a review of the government's performance in 2007, the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) says that it is disappointed with the government's economic plans

Andi Haswidi, Jakarta – The trade deficit with China in the non-oil and gas sector skyrocketed by more than 3500 percent from US$35 million in 2006 to $1.28 billion last year, the Centr

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is weighing over the possible closure of upstream oil and gas regulator BPMigas and downstream regulator BPH Migas due to decayin

Jakarta – Against the backdrop of a possible US recession, which has sent stock markets across the globe tumbling, the government is preparing measures to safeguard the country's econom

Debnath Guharoy, Consultant – If the overall economy is growing at over 6 percent and if foreign investments are on the rise again why isn't the marketplace buoyant?

Fadli, Batam – The Riau Islands chapter of the Indonesian Employers Association has told the government it needs to crack down on corruption in special economic zones.

Sara Webb, Merak – Indonesia's rust-bucket ferries are a symbol of the decrepit infrastructure which has plagued Southeast Asia's biggest economy and prevented it from matching China's

Andi Haswidi, Jakarta – Having trade deficits with certain partners is natural, but not when the number of partners keeps growing and the total deficits jumping exponentially.

Jakarta – Indonesia's domestic vehicle sales are expected to fall 30 percent in 2009 from a record high in 2008, due to tight domestic liquidity and slower economic growth, PT Toyota As

Jakarta – The growth of sharia-based finance in 2007 was just 30.1 percent, less than the 34.2 percent advance seen the previous year, due to a rise of non-performing transactions, acco

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Corrupt behavior in politics and complicated bureaucracy are believed to be the factors keeping benevolent democracy and a sound economy out of Indonesia's rea

Jakarta – Despite the surge in oil prices and lower government spending, the Indonesian economy has managed to make a soft landing this year, with an improvement in most of the country'

Jakarta – A group of economists has criticized the government for failing to implement an effective and pro-poor economic policy despite improving the country's macro economic situation

Hendarsyah Tarmizi, Jakarta – Despite much criticism over its inability to cope with growing unemployment and poverty, the government has in general managed to get the economic wheels b

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – All's well on the banking front this year, with lending back on track and registering ever stronger growth on the back of Indonesia's fast growing economy.

Jakarta – The country's economy will remain resilient next year, although it may grow slightly slower than the government's estimate amid tough challenges on both the external and inter

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Indonesian Employers' Association (Apindo) has warned the government of an increase in the unemployment rate and poorer labor conditions in 2008 if no

Jakarta – One-hundred-and-sixty local-government water firms (PDAM) in Indonesia, or about 75 percent of the 223 audited by the Development Finance Controller (BPKP), performed poorly t

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Investments and exports are expected to contribute more to Indonesia's economic growth next year, giving an additional boost to the slow but sure revival in cons

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Local producers of medical goods said Tuesday they could not compete with imported products unless the government reduced import duties on required components

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Southeast Asia's biggest economy has a brand new bourse, a long-awaited merger of two pre-existing financial markets aimed at attracting more foreign capital thro

Jakarta – The Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Rating for the third quarter of 2007 remained steady, increasing a mere 0.1 points to 112.8 from the previous quarter.

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – If a market becomes blighted by monopolistic, price-fixing or other uncompetitive practices at the expense of consumers, the only one to blame is the market regu

Jakarta – Many regency and municipality administrations have done nothing to improve the investment climate in their regions, a survey says.

Jakarta – Indonesia's economy is facing a rather gloomy outlook for next year on the back of increasing pressures from high oil prices and the heating up of the political situation at h

Vincent Lingga, Jakarta – The market may simply ignore the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU)'s ruling against Temasek, its subsidiaries and Telkomsel.

Andi Haswidi, Jakarta – Indonesia improved its share of world trade last year thanks largely to a surge in the prices of the country's main commodities, according to the latest report f

Andi Haswidi, Jakarta – The economy will remain resilient next year despite tough challenges ahead stemming from a predicted slowdown in the global economy as a result of high oil price

Nusa Dua, Bali – Having steered its new Investment Law through parliament, the government's next step will be to lay out the red carpet for local and international investors by easing t

Andi Haswidi, Jakarta – Businesses are cautiously welcoming the government's plan to provide incentives for industries willing to convert from oil to using other alternative sources of

Jakarta – Consumers in the country are getting jittery from a possible domino effect from the lately pick-up in inflation to growth and beyond, putting their confidence on the economy a