View Point: Freeport imbroglio: Sanctity of a contract should not always be honored

Vincent  Lingga, Jakarta | Opinion | Sun, December 06 2015, 2:38 PM Should  the sanctity of an investment contract always be honored and should  business contracts be held sacred? Not always, assert Louis T. Wells and  Rafiq Ahmed, business management experts, in their book Making...

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Global palm oil conference highlights smallholders

Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Kuala Lumpur | Business | Sat, November 21 2015, 5:34 PM  The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a global body of plantation companies, refiners, consumers and green groups, that promotes the development of socially, environmentally and economically sustainable...

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The week in review: The worst forest fires

Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post | Editorial | Sun, November 01 2015, 3:13 PM The forest and peatland fires and smog, billed the worst in Indonesian history, still dominated media headlines this week, with thousands of hot spots covering Sumatra and Kalimantan. At least 19 people in Sumatra and...

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View Point: Still waiting for bold reforms in infrastructure sector

Vincent  Lingga, Jakarta | Opinion | Sun, October 04 2015, 3:26 PM We  understand the government has been preoccupied with the sharp  depreciation of the rupiah and its damaging repercussions on the prices  of many basic goods, people’s purchasing power and consumer and business...

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The week in review: Unshackled from regulations

The Jakarta Post 13 Sep 2015 — Vincent Lingga Excessive regulations and licensing red tape are this week’s buzzwords as the government fights to streamline all the regulatory pipelines and clean up a rusty bureaucracy to facilitate the economic development process. As dark clouds hang over the...

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Commentary: Alcohol industry terrified as political process for prohibition advances

Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Commentary | Mon, August 31 2015, 5:57 PM Publicly listed PT Multi Bintang Indonesia, the country’s largest brewery, has put on hold its US$42 million plant expansion projects in East Java after the ban on alcohol sales slapped on minimarts by the Trade...

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Hong Kong organizes largest ever promotion in Jakarta

The Jakarta Post, Hong Kong | Business | Fri, August 14 2015, 3:28 PM Hong Kong will come to Jakarta in a big way in the middle of September. The city, located just off mainland China, will host a week-long promotion of its fashion, jewellery and electronic products and services and try reaffirm...

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HK emphasizes role as platform for global supply-chain

The Jakarta Post | Business | Fri, August 14 2015, 3:43 PM The Hong Kong government invited a group of Indonesian journalists, including Vincent Lingga of The Jakarta Post, for  a visit to Hong Kong last week in light of the In-Style Hong Kong in  Jakarta in September, dubbed as the largest...

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The petroleum-fund concept confuses fuel price-floating policy

Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Opinion | Sun, Aug 2 2015, 11:02 AM This is another example of the acute absence of policy coherence that has damaged market confidence in the economic team of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s Cabinet.   Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources...

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View Point: National banks sensible about foreign players' role

Vincent Lingga, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Opinion | Sun, May 31 2015, 11:02 AM The Federation of Private Domestic Banks (Perbanas) made a lot of sense when it recommended to the House of Representatives that the banking bill, which will begin to be deliberated in August, should not stipulate...

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