The weakening growth trend of the Chinese economy may not have ended yet. Despite the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) growth rebounding to 6.9 percent year-on-year (y/y) in 2017, its economy is expected to cool in 2018 as a government-led crackdown on debt risks and factory pollution drags on overall activity in the world's second-largest economy. This is a problem for Indonesia as well because China is Indonesia's biggest trading partner.

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Tower Bersama Infrastructure, a leading independent telecommunication tower developer in Indonesia, set aside IDR 1 trillion (approx. USD $74 million) for the development of new telecommunication towers in 2018. Meanwhile, the company is also ready to acquire towers from its domestic counterparts.

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Indonesia is set to become the world's biggest wheat importer in the 2017-2018 season. Based on an estimation of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Indonesia will import 12.5 million tons of wheat, hence replacing Egypt (traditionally the world's leading wheat importer). Based on data from the World Bank, Indonesia imported 10.2 million tons of wheat in the 2016-2017 season, ranking behind Egypt that imported 11.2 million tons.

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The central bank of Indonesia (Bank Indonesia) is expected to leave its interest rates regime unchanged at the monthly policy meeting in February (14-15 February 2018) amid (expectations of) tighter monetary policies in the United States (USA), European Union (EU) and Japan.

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