• Berita Pasar Saham: Debut Solid PP Properti di Bursa Efek Indonesia

    Pembangunan Perumahan Properti (PP Properti), sebuah developer properti dan unit dari Pembangunan Perumahan (PP), melakukan pendaftaran yang sukses di BEI pada hari ini (19/05). Saham-saham PP Properti naik tajam 35% saat debut perdagangannya. Setelah Bank Yudha Bhakti (BBYD) dan Mitra Keluarga Karyasehat (MIKA), PP Properti (PPRO) adalah perusahaan ketiga di Indonesia yang telah melaksanakan penawaran saham perdana (initial public offering/IPO) di BEI (Mitra Energi Persada telah mendaftarkan ulang lebih dulu di Mei 2015).

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  • Rupiah Down against US Dollar, Markets Wait for Bank Indonesia Meeting

    Indonesia’s rupiah continued to weaken on Monday’s trading day (18/05). The Indonesian rupiah had depreciated 0.22 percent to IDR 13,113 per US dollar by 12:08 pm based on the Bloomberg Dollar Index as market participants are waiting for results of the central bank’s Board of Governor’s Meeting, scheduled for Tuesday (19/05). At this meeting Indonesia’s central bank (Bank Indonesia) will discuss and determine its stance on the country’s interest rate environment. Currently, the key rate (BI rate) is set relatively high at 7.50 percent.

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  • Challenges and Opportunities in Indonesia’s Cocoa Industry

    At the Triannual Cocoa Dinner, held in JW Marriot London, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said to see both opportunities and challenges in Indonesia’s cocoa industry. Currently, Indonesia produces about 700,000 tons of cocoa per year and is the world’s third-largest cocoa producer (after Ivory Coast and Ghana). Around 1.2 million hectare of land is used in Indonesia for the production of this commodity (the majority of these plantations are found concentrated in Central Sulawesi where about half of the country’s cocoa is produced).

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  • Indonesia Investments' Newsletter of 17 May 2015 Released

    On 17 May 2015, 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 in the last seven days. Most of the topics involve economic matters such as updates on Indonesia’s current account balance and trade balance, Indonesia’s interest rate environment, human capital development, the forest moratorium, foreign ownership of property, and more.

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