TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The structure of Indonesia’s external debts at the end of July 2018 remained manageable with healthy level, Bank Indonesia (BI) said. This is among others reflected in the ratio of the country’s external debts to gross domestic product (GDP) that is stable at around 34 percent at the end of the month, the central bank […]
Read MoreThe Public Works and Housing Ministry’s Indonesia Toll Road Authority (BPTJ) has announced that the integrated tariffs on the Jakarta Outer Ring Road (JORR) will take effect on Sept. 29. BPTJ head Herry Trisaputra Zuna clarified initial reports saying that tariffs would start on Sept. 23. He said that date was the start of the information […]
Read MorePresident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said on Thursday he had instructed Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution to immediately complete the draft of a presidential regulation (Perpres) on agrarian reform as he planned to sign it this week. “The Perpres [draft] hasn’t been on my table. But [I was informed] that it has already been completed,” Jokowi said […]
Read MoreBank Indonesia monetary management department head Nanang Hendarsah said on Friday that the rupiah exchange rate against the US dollar had begun to rebound as the external pressure on the currency had started to subside. Nanang mentioned two factors for lessening pressure on the rupiah, namely moves by some central banks of developed countries, such as […]
Read MoreTEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Singapore’s new investment in Indonesia reached US$5.04 billion or rose 38 percent in the first half of the year compared with the same period last year. In the whole of 2017, Singapore’s new investment was valued at US$8.44 billion in the country, Industry Minister Airlangga Hartarto said on Sunday. Meanwhile, Indonesia’s exports of non-oil/gas commodities to Singapore were valued at US$9 billion making that neighboring country the fifth largest destination of Indonesia’s exports of commodities other than oil and […]
Read MoreAgriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaeman was reluctant to comment on an open debate involving government officials on importing rice, but added that the issue was an old paradigm. “It is an old paradigm. Don’t use old paradigms,” Amran said in West Bandung regency, West Java when opening a horticultural event on Thursday, but declined to […]
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