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Indonesia-based general insurance company Asuransi Tugu Pratama Indonesia, which is majority-owned by state-owned energy company Pertamina, will offer 282.35 million new shares to the public through an initial public offering (IPO) on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The number of shares offered to the public is equivalent to 15 percent of the company's total shares.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) stated in its Asian Development Outlook (ADO) report, which was released on Wednesday (11/04), that it expects the Indonesian economy to expand by 5.3 percent year-on-year (y/y) in 2018 and 2019 on the back of rising investment and an improvement in household consumption.
Trade finance, a facility to finance export and import activities, remains attractive for the banking sector of Indonesia in 2018. In the first two months of 2018 trade finance surged 20 percent.
Indonesia-based chemical manufacturing company Tridomain Performance Materials made its trading debut on the Indonesia Stock Exchange on Monday (09/04), hence becoming the seventh company to have completed its initial public offering (IPO) in Indonesia in 2018. The company offered 1.8 billion new shares to the public, equivalent to 17.19 percent of the company's total share equity. At the end of the trading day its shares had surged 50.0 percent.
