Monday, December 22, 2008 Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Government and private sector analysts have a consensus prognosis: Indonesia's economic growth will markedly slow down next year because of the international credit crunch and the deep recession in the United States, Europe and Japan....
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Commentary: Distrust among banks the cause of liquidity problem
Vincent Lingga , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta Tue, 11/25/2008 7:14 AM Headlines
Almost one week after Sinar Mas Multi Artha, the financial unit of the powerful Sinar Mas business group, signed a preliminary agreement to acquire 70 percent of Bank Century, this small bank remained in a liquidity...
Friday, November 14, 2008
Special Report: Commodities boom ends as speculative bubbles evaporate
Vincent Lingga , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta Fri, 11/14/2008 11:02 AM Business
Indonesia benefited greatly from the boom in the prices of primary commodities since the middle of last year as palm oil, rubber, coffee and cocoa as well as coal, pushed up the Jakarta stock market index to its...
Commentary: Sri Mulyani, the bedrock of SBY’s economic management
Vincent Lingga , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta Tue, 11/11/2008 7:13 AM Headlines
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s political debts from his 2004 presidential election campaign seem to be haunting him still, even to the point of occasionally impairing his economic judgment. Yudhoyono was warned...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Special Report: Lessons from Citibank Indonesia: Customers get burned
Vincent Lingga , The Jakarta Post Wed, 10/15/2008 10:27 AM Headlines
Citbank Indonesia customers that lost a lot -- in my case, most of my savings -- after the collapse of American investment bank Lehman Brothers last month need not be ashamed of admitting how low and utterly poor their financial...
Herd mentality, short-term vision grip our stock market
Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Thurs, 10/9/2008
The capital market management and regulator made the right decision Wednesday to halt share trading here after the benchmark index plunged by another 10 percent to close at 1,451 points, because that development was indeed rooted in an irrational...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Audits could curb illegal logging
Vincent Lingga , Jakarta Tue, 10/07/2008 9:58 AM Opinion
The Indonesian Forestry Ministry's bold move to require forestry companies to have their wood stocks audited throughout the supply chain to ensure the wood is derived from sustainably managed forests could go a long way in reducing illegal...
OECD growth ideas and our national remedies
Thursday, July 31, 2008 Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Some analysts and many politicians in Parliament may reject the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) economic policy recommendations for the Indonesian government last week as another one-size-fits-all formula,...
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Tourism industry mired in poor regulation, infrastructure
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Although tourist arrivals in Indonesia increased by a respectable rate of almost 12 percent in the first half of the year to 2.9 million, that record is still far from the target of 7 million visitors set for the Visit Indonesia 2008...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Enforcing budgetary discipline for oil contractors
Thursday, July 03, 2008 Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
We find it hard to understand why it has taken more than two years for the Indonesian government to enforce strong budgetary discipline on its oil and gas production-sharing contractors as its own fiscal situation has rapidly deteriorated.
We...
Friday, June 20, 2008
Commentary: STT divestment clears pebble from Temasek's shoe
Vincent Lingga , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta Wed, 06/18/2008 10:44 AM Headlines
It was visionary business acumen on the part of Singapore government-owned Temasek Holdings when its subsidiary, ST Telemedia (STT), acquired, through an international competitive bid, around 40 percent of state-owned...
Russian Uraltrac equipment to enter Indonesia
Minang Jordanindo, an Indonesian-Jordanian joint venture company, invited a group of Indonesian journalists, including The Jakarta Post's Vincent Lingga, to witness the signing of its business deals and visit the the 220-hectare Uraltrac industrial complex in Chelyabinsk in the last week of May on...
Saturday, June 14, 2008
News Analysis: Local governments: From rent-seekers to business partners
Vincent Lingga , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta Mon, 05/26/2008 10:13 AM Headlines
Provincial, regency and municipal administrations are competing with each other to offer multibillion dollar development projects to domestic and foreign investors at the Regional Investment Forum opening here...
Small fuel price hike will trigger new uncertainty
Vincent Lingga , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta Fri, 05/23/2008 10:53 AM Headlines
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono eased market concerns about the government's fiscal sustainability when, after several months of indecision, he made up his mind earlier this month about the urgent need to raise...
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