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JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - Overcoming the problem of the current account deficit (CAD) in the trade balance, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs (CMMA) Luhut Binsar Panjaitan made eight decisions to boost exchange rates revenues from tourism sector. In the meeting with several ministries, institutions and the Regional Government in Yogyakarta on...

JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - Indonesian dairy industry is set for exponential growth this year due to significant shifts in how Indonesian consumers view health and lifestyle. Indonesia’s dairy industry and dairy products industry is undergoing a boom with market demand rising by over 10 per cent on an annual basis for...

JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - Canadian venture exchange oil and gas publicly traded company, Sonoro Energy Ltd. (TSXV: SNV) has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with one of Indonesia's largest companies to develop oil and gas activities in Budong Budong Production Sharing Contract (PSC) as joint partners, it said on Tuesday (11/09). This strategic relationship...

JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - Moka, a fast-growing Indonesian cloud-based point-of-sale system, has raised US$24 million Series B round led by Sequoia India. The round included new investors SoftBank Ventures Korea, Singapore-based EDBI, EV Growth, as well as existing investors PT Mandiri Capital, Convergence, and Fenox. The new capital will give the company...

JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - Moody's Investors Service has affirmed the B2 corporate family rating of Alam Sutera Realty Tbk (P.T.) and affirmed the B2 backed senior unsecured rating of the 2020 notes and 2022 notes issued by Alam Synergy Pte. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the company. The notes are guaranteed by Alam Sutera and...

JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - Indonesian cellular operator PT XL Axiata Tbk (IDX: EXCL) published two debt securities under a two-year program with total amount Rp2 trillion (US$68.96 million), it said on Thursday (13/09). The unit of Malaysian Axiata Group Bhd has planned to issue debt securities with total amount Rp5 trillion...

JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang are committed to develop the economic cooperation between the two countries, it said in official statement on Tuesday (11/09). "In the past three years, our trading trend has been quite good and reached a value of US$6.8 billion. We...

JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - Former Social Minister Idrus Marham has been detained for the next 20 days by Indonesia' Corruption Eradication Commission in connection with bribery case for Riau-1 coal fired power plant project. On Friday (31/O8), Marham walked out of the Corruption body's lobby at 6.25 p.m . He was guarded to...

JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) – Executive Director of Median Rico Marbun has likened President Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto as two military generals who applied different war strategies in their political campaigns to win the presidential election in 2019. “President Widodo and his running mate Ma’ruf Amin use scorched earth strategy to destroy...

JAKARTA (TheInsiderStories) - Good morning. The Demokrat Party made an unpopular and surprising decision by allowing his cadres not adhering to the party’s line in supporting the opposition camp in the 2019 Presidential Election after a slew of party officials jumped ship and decided to back the re-election bid of President...