Thursday, April 05, 2007

Telecom industry needs more foreign players

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta  Five years after the conclusion of what was then dubbed a strategic deal that would help restore foreign investor confidence in Indonesia, the almost 42 percent Singapore shareholding in PT Indosat is still being whipped up by...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Centralizing investment licensing a bad idea

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Monday, April 02, 2007 Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Then president Megawati Soekarnoputri tried to centralize the licensing of foreign and domestic investment in the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) in 2004, but failed because of the strong bureaucratic jealousy between government...
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Is central bank really monitoring foreign exchange?

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Friday, March 23, 2007 Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta We now worryingly doubt Bank Indonesia's capability to monitor foreign exchange (forex) flows to and from the country. This doubt arose after the recent disclosure of state-owned Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI)'s failure to report to the...
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