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Construction / Infrastructure in Indonesia

  • Indonesia Infrastructure, connectivity number one priority

    INDONESIA, 2017/05/28 Government enacts large-scale infrastructure development to boost long-term economic increase and improve national competitiveness As Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s longest-serving prime minister and the initial woman to have been elected to that office once famously said, “You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure”. This wry observation rings particularly authentic at the same time as applied to Indonesia today. Since the establishment of the Republic in 1949, the Indonesian economy and social development that has been held back by a pronounced lack in the quality and quantity of its infrastructure. Certainly this is due to the lack of investment during the colonial period and the vast damage inflicted onto the country by World War Two and the subsequent struggle for independence.
  • SOEs increase capacity to accelerate infrastructure development

    INDONESIA, 2017/04/19 SOEs such as PT PP will be critical to realizing Indonesia’s infrastructure ambitions. The company has ambitions beyond this, with plans to become ASEAN’s major integrated construction company by 2018 Spearheading Indonesia’s infrastructure boom are efforts by the country’s national-owned enterprises (SOEs). Following dramatic increases in national budget allocation, the construction phases of a number of key projects were implemented by these organizations over the last schedule year, such as the Trans-Sumatra toll road, which is under construction.
  • Seeking broad industry base

    INDONESIA, 2013/06/12 From cocoa to mobile phone handsets and cement to aircraft, Indonesia’s industry sector is surging as firms look to make inroads within the region and further abroad. However, a lack of infrastructure remains a limiting factor on increase. On April 26, Taiwanese mobile maker Hon Hai Precision Industry, which trades as Foxconn, revealed plans to spend $5bn to $10bn in Indonesia on building a handset factory. The government is set to provide incentives inclunding excise- business relief for the sizeable investment .