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Bank Indonesia (the central bank of Indonesia) is convinced that the nation's current account deficit (CAD) will not exceed 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017. In the second quarter of 2017 the CAD widened to 1.96 percent of GDP (or USD $5 billion), from 0.98 percent of GDP in the preceding quarter (or USD $2.4 billion).
On 14 August 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 the official Q2-2017 GDP figure, the new economic policy package (focused on investment), the one million houses program, special economic zones, brands, IPOs, and much more.
According to Millward Brown, the British multinational market research firm, Bank Central Asia (BCA) maintained on top of the ranking in terms of most valuable brands in Indonesia. BCA is one of Indonesia's leading banks and one of the country's largest companies in terms of market capitalization on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. It is the third consecutive year BCA tops the ranking.
So far this year Indonesia's "One Million Houses Program" is well on its way. Based on information from Indonesia's Public Works and Housing Ministry a total of 499,702 houses were constructed under the program in the first half of 2017, achieving 49.9 percent of the full-year target.
