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Grab's Role in Unlocking Indonesia's Informal Economy in 2018

A study by Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Tenggara Strategics finds that the Grab ecosystem contributes Rp 48.9 trillion (US$ 3.5 billion) to the Indonesian economy from 4 line of services: GrabBike, GrabCar, GrabFood, and Kudo.

Election protests lose steam

As government officials and civil society organizations continue to discourage the public from attending a rally in front of the General Elections Commission’s (KPU) headquarters following the announcement of the 2019 election results on Wednesday, political parties in presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto’s coalition have distanced themselves from the event.

Prabowo continues fighting as May 22 closing

With the General Elections Commission (KPU) bracing itself for the announcement of the election result, presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto continues his fight, despite having been predicted to lo...

With the General Elections Commission (KPU) bracing itself for the announcement of the election resu...

Elections: Upcoming challenges of identity politics

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is on course for a second term in office; quick counts of the April 17 ballots suggest that he won around 55 percent of the votes, while his long-...

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is on course for a second term in office; quic...

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Relying on smallholders for future palm oil growth

Three unrelated events happened in October and November; each points to the future of palm oil production from different perspectives, and each draws attention to the fate of smallholders.The first event was in Musi Banyuasin, South Sumatra, where Pr...

Finding common ground in Indonesia-EU palm oil spat

Indonesia is currently at loggerheads with the European Union over the palm oil trade, which looks as though they might be headed toward a trade war. It’s high time that the two sides find a common ground, as they did in the forestry sector.&nb...

Investors wait for more conducive business climate

The industrial property market in Indonesia mainly focuses on selling land, rather than offering industrial building, and also leans more toward selling than to leasing.This is particularly because our industrial property market still holds a substan...

Broadening recovery, but financial risks lurk

Many things in 2017 could have gone wrong in the world economy but did not; we are sure investors are pleasantly surprised by that. We began the year fearful of sustained slowdown in China, rising trade protectionism, political developments that coul...

Indonesia should benefit from US and European growth

The United States economy has entered the third-longest phase of economic growth in its history. The global economy has gone through a process of recovery after the 2008-2010 crises. About 70 percent of the world’s developed economies had faste...

Main challenges: contracting signals from the noise

Entering office in 2014, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo faced his first political challenge at the House of Representatives. Then he faced economic challenges as global oil prices fell, causing strong fiscal pressure. The government ...