April 28, 2015 edition
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April 21, 2015 edition
Taking Stock of the Development Agenda
Indonesia is poised to begin a new era under the government of President Joko Widodo, who won the elections six months ago. As announced during his campaign, Jokowias Joko Widodo is popularly knownidentified three major problems facing Indonesia: threats to the authority of the state, weaknesses in the economic pillars, intolerance and crisis of the national character. Based on these three major problems, Jokowi launched his nine-priority agenda, known as Nawacita. His priority is to improve productivity and competitiveness and to achieve economic independence by re-directing strategic sectors towards the domestic economy.
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April 14, 2015 edition
IN March, the rupiah slowly went on the decline against the US dollar, causing untold problems for businesses who went down slowly. When the rupiah exchange rate plunged against the US dollar, Indonesian businesses were shaken to their roots. The high dollar meant companies had to pay more for their imported raw materials. The economic situation tested many businesses and posed a particular challenge to their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs).
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April 7, 2015 edition
French novelist Victor Hugo blamed the weather for sealing Europe's fate. If it had not rained on the night of June 17, 1815, he argued, Europe would have been different. Just a few raindrops, he wrote in the third chapter of Les Miserables, cemented Napoleon's defeat in the Battle of Waterloo.
The aberrant rainfall has become a popular explanation for Napoleon's defeat at the hands of coalition troops under the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard von Blcher.
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January 1, 1970 edition
MINING is by nature a high-risk and high-return business. But, for the last few years, the problem facing Indonesian miners is that both risk and return trends have, for some time, been moving in opposite directions. Risks are steadily rising due to increasing regulatory requirements, while returns are shrinking as ore prices drop with the slowdown in the world economy, most notably in China, Indonesia's top export market. This puts considerable pressure on industry players to start reassessing their investment commitments and regulators their mining policies as they go forward.
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March 3, 2015 edition