To Ban or Not To Ban
2013 ends a year in which the Indonesian economy made a strong start and sputtered mid year when rumors of an end to the US Fed’s monetary easing, and uncertainty over nationalist trade policy spooked
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Structural Reform Anxiety
Its amazing and somewhat anxiety producing to watch both the US and Indonesia democracies struggle over structural reforms. An inflection point seems to have simultaneously been reached in each country, with each nation's future
APEC and America’s Image
I normally go about my business keeping my American roots a little under wraps. AICC is after all a bi-national association. Right before this year’s APEC meetings in Bali (October), there was the third US-Indonesia
Issue to Watch: Rupiah Hits 11,000: Time to Stimulate
Steep declines in the rupiah (it briefly passed 11,000 on Friday) stock index and overall confidence-echoing earlier drops-finally sent enough shivers within the government for the President and his economic team to say "enough is
Energy Subdies Reduced
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's government has finally moved to to reduce the ballooning energy subsidies that have absorbed far too much of the State budget for years. In the form of a budget revision, the
Return of Paternalist Capitalism
A commonly held view of Indonesia's recent, more protectionist policy decisions (i.e. mineral export bans, beef and horticulture import restrictions, mining divestment rules) is that they are motivated by populist politics leading to the 2014