Commentary: Bank Indonesia bows to political pressure on DBS-Danamon deal
Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post | Commentary | Mon, December 03 2012, 10:08 AM
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Bank Indonesia (BI), the nation’s central bank and ostensibly an independent institution, effectively said on Friday...
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Sunday, September 02, 2012
The week in review: Deadly intolerance
Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post | Editorial | Sun, September 02 2012, 10:20 AM
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The Idul Fitri celebrations are supposed to be a week of mutual forgiveness and social reconciliation, but brutal attacks last Sunday...
Sunday, August 12, 2012
The descent from developmental state into predatory state
Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Feature | Sun, August 12 2012, 12:18 PM
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Indonesia’s two longest-serving presidents, Sukarno and Soeharto, were both authoritarian and were both brought down by economic...
Editorial: Bridge hangs in the balance
Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post | Editorial | Tue, August 07 2012, 7:49 AM
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We know that being indecisive has been one of the main hallmarks of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s presidency.Yet it is mind-boggling to observe Yudhoyono idly...
Monday, June 25, 2012
The week in review: Summits, pledges and reality
Vincent Lingga |The Jakarta Post | Editorial | Sun, 06/24/2012 7:18 AM
Leaders of the G20 have pledged to take action to boost weakening world economic growth and support moves by eurozone countries to move toward a banking union to restore...
Friday, June 15, 2012
Floating regasification unit improves LNG supply, value chain
Vincent Lingga, Oslo | Fri, 06/15/2012 9:19 AM
Indonesia has been one of the world’s largest exporters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) since the mid-1970s, but the role of the clean-burning primary energy in the country’s electricity...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Norway geared up for ‘big bang’-style trade and investment in Indonesia
Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Oslo | Wed, 06/13/2012 11:27 AM
Gunn Ovesen (left) and Trond Giske: (Courtesy of Innovation Norway)
Oil and gas-rich Norway is gearing up to enter Indonesia’s economy in a “big bang...
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Commentary: Bank consolidation should be top priority for central bank
Except for the plan to introduce multiple licenses for banks, we do not see how the forthcoming package of bank regulations, especially those relating to bank ownership cap, will fit into the banking architecture that Bank Indonesia launched in 2004.
The national banking architecture was designed...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Commentary: Planned DBS-Danamon deal puts Temasek in the spotlight againVincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 04/10/2012 9:45 AMThe planned US$7.3 billion acquisition by Singapore DBS Group Holding of publicly listed Bank Danamon should be one more confidence-building step in Indonesia’s...
Sunday, April 01, 2012
The week in review : $25b for artificial stabilityVincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post | Sun, 04/01/2012 12:43 PM|The government, with its popularity eroded by corruption scandals, succumbed on Friday to popular outrage against its planned fuel-price increase by raising the amount allotted for fuel and...
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The week in review: The fuel-policy uncertaintyVincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post | Sun, 01/22/2012 7:00 AM |For such an important policy reform that has been on and off the national agenda since late 2007, the debates on the need to limit subsidized-fuel sales that dominated the nation’s attention...
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