On 10 September 2017, Indonesia Investments released the latest edition of its newsletter. This free newsletter, which is sent to our subscribers once per week, contains the most important news stories from Indonesia that have been reported on our website over the last seven days. Most of the topics involve economy and market-related matters such as inflation, manufacturing, the rupiah, GDP growth, cosmetic industry, fruit, coal mining, and more.

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Indonesia's reference coal price surged in September 2017. Southeast Asia's largest economy's benchmark coal price (in Indonesian: Harga Batubara Acuan, or HBA) soared 9.6 percent month-on-month (m/m) to USD $92.03 per metric ton, from USD $83.97 in August. Indonesia's HBA is now at its highest position since December 2016.

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Indonesia's central bank (Bank Indonesia) said the nation's foreign exchange reserves rose to USD $128.8 billion at the end of August 2017, higher than the USD $127.8 billion one month earlier. This growth was primarily attributed to foreign exchange receipts from tax revenues and government oil & gas export proceeds, as well as auctions of Bank Indonesia's foreign exchange bills.

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Indonesia's cosmetic industry remains attractive for foreign and domestic investors. Based on data from Beauty Market Survey (BMS), which were obtained through Nielsen and Euro Monitor, the value of Indonesia's cosmetics industry was estimated at IDR 36 trillion (approx. USD $2.7 billion) in 2016, up around 12 percent from the value in the preceding year.

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