Are we ready for the TPP?

Java's multi-storied electronics malls dazzle. Fluorescent lights glare. Loud music blares. And standing, with plastic water cups and laminated phone catalogs at the ready, are battalions of young salesmen and women ready to march the uninformed through optionseverything from an Evercross Winner YA76 for Rp2.35 million to an iPhone 6 for Rp8.5 million.

Last month, President Joko Widodo put in motion a process that might close the price gap between those two phones and other imported goods and services.

November 10, 2015