INDONESIA’S gig economy, dominated by transport and delivery platforms Grab and Gojek, has fallen critically short in meeting the “social” aspect of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmarks that global investors apply to find companies aligned with their values, prompting urgent calls for reforms. In the first fair work ratings study in Indonesia, the […]
Read MoreBENGALURU : Indonesia’s economy grew 4.9per cent in the final quarter of 2021 as exports from the resource-rich economy surged amid a rise in global commodity prices while an easing of COVID-19 restrictions improved domestic consumption, a Reuters poll showed. Southeast Asia’s largest economy has reported a trade surplus since May 2020 on robust exports […]
Read MoreDeputy Minister of State-Owned Enterprises Pahala Nugraha Mansury has said that the potential for Indonesia’s halal product exports has reached around US$3.6 billion. “We also support efforts to increase investment, and this can be seen from the potential for exports of Indonesian halal products to other countries of approximately US$3.6 billion,” he remarked at an […]
Read MoreThe growth of 4.1 to 4.6 percent is still very achievable in 2022 Jakarta (ANTARA) – Rector of the University of Indonesia (UI) and economist Ari Kuncoro projects Indonesia’s economic growth to lie in the range of 4.1 to 4.6 percent year-on-year in 2022. “The growth of 4.1 to 4.6 percent is still very achievable […]
Read MoreJAKARTA (XINHUA) – Indonesia’s non-oil and non-gas manufacturing industry has recorded a 19 per cent increase in investment, or worth IDR324.5 trillion (USD22.6 billion) in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s Industry Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita said yesterday. The number went up from the 2020 investment valued at USD19 billion and was higher than […]
Read MoreBeijing (ANTARA) – Indonesia recorded a trade surplus of US$2.92 billion with China last year and emerged as Beijing’s third-largest trade partner among ASEAN member states. “The performance of our trade with China during the January–December 2021 period was encouraging,” Indonesian Ambassador to China Djauhari Oratmangun told ANTARA in Beijing on Wednesday. Quoting China Customs (GACC) data, the […]
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