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Indonesia's Social & Economic Environment

Okusi Associates - Indonesian Business & Management Doing Business in Indonesia
Indonesia is probably not the easiest place in the world in which to do business. The "World Competitiveness Scoreboard" currently ranks Indonesia at 45, only two places ahead of Russia, ...

Indonesian Land Law & Foreign Ownership of Land
Indonesian Land Law is different to the laws that apply in most Western or developed countries.  Foreigners wishing to use or purchase land for whatever purpose need to be aware of these differences ...

Indonesia's Economic Development in comparison to South Korea and Taiwan
The rapid pace of economic development in East Asia over the past few decades has awed the world. ...

Javanese Santri Islam
The Western aversion and distrust towards Islam runs deep, in contrast to how 'friendlier' religions such as Buddhism, Confucianism and Hinduism are often considered. ...

Joint Venture? or 100% Foreign-Owned?
Joint ventures (JVs) have long been the working foundation upon which foreign investment has entered many developing countries. ...

Analysing the end of Suharto’s Indonesia
The incantations and vocabulary of the new era are rapidly taking hold in Indonesia since the fall of Suharto and his New Order regime. ...

 

Other Useful Links

JakChat! message board
Funky, free-for-all message board aimed at longer-term foreign residents of Indonesia, rather than just expatriates.  May help you get in touch with "real" people here on the ground

Jawawa.Net
Daily aggregated currency and economic indicators collated from various sources including Bank Indonesia, Dept of Finance, Tax Office, Jakarta Stock Exchange, and others.

The Jakarta Post
Indonesia's only English-language daily, read almost exclusively by the foreign expatriate community; almost universally ignored by the indigenous political elite.

Indonesia -- Country Briefing
Useful, basic background information and statistics about Indonesia from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Tempo Interactive
English-language liberal weekly with relatively impartial political and economic news. Could be said to represent Indonesia's West-leaning intellectual elite.

Living in Indonesia -- for expats
A very useful site for getting a feel for living in Indonesia. Not all the information can be relied upon, however, and the site is a tad messy structurally, but it's a good place to start nonetheless.

Kompas Online
Indonesian-language daily. By far the biggest and most influentual newspaper in Indonesia, read by the educated and the political elite.