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An interesting story was released on Bloomberg Markets Asia on Wednesday (29/03) about the sliding role of commodities in the Indonesian economy and the need for Southeast Asia's largest economy to find a new growth engine (or better: several new growth engines) that will take the country to economic growth levels of +7 percent year-on-year (y/y) as once pledged by Indonesian President Joko Widodo during his presidential campaign in 2014.
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Indonesia's largest supplier of crude palm oil (CPO), Astra Agro Lestari, is expected to see improving corporate earnings in the years ahead on the back of the rising CPO price and expectation of the company's climbing CPO production volume. The year 2016 was a good year for Astra Agro Lestari as it reported a 224.2 percent year-on-year (y/y) jump in net profit and a 7.6 percent (y/y) increase in sales, led by sales of CPO and derivative products. This was a great recovery from the preceding year. CPO and derivative products account for more than 86 percent of the company's total sales.
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The full-year 2016 corporate earnings of Unilever Indonesia, one of the largest consumer goods producers in Indonesia (if not the largest), were in line with analysts' estimates, supported by higher sales - both in terms of volume and prices. Unilever Indonesia's sales rose 11.4 percent year-on-year (y/y) to IDR 40.05 trillion (approx. USD $3.0 billion), while net profit rose 9.2 percent (y/y) to IDR 6.39 trillion (approx. USD $480 million) in 2016.
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Reed Panorama Exhibitions (RPE) kembali akan menghadirkan ratusan pelaku usaha di bidang bahan bangunan, arsitektur, desain interior dan keramik dalam pameran tahunannya yang bertajuk Megabuild Indonesia 2017, yang akan dilaksanakan di Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) dari 16-19 Maret 2017. Pameran tersebut akan digelar bersamaan dengan Keramika 2017 dan Jakarta Design Week 2017. Megabuild Indonesia 2017 merupakan pameran satu atap yang akan menjawab segala kebutuhan akan bahan bangunan dan elemen-elemen pendukungnya.
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