I WAS in Singapore on July 17, meeting up with some fund manager friends when news broke about the bombings in Jakarta. The initial reaction was of sadness and sympathy for the victims and Indonesia in general. We also thought that it could be an opportunity to invest more in Indonesia’s stock market if it were [...]

Jonas Parello-Plesner works as senior advisor with the Danish government on Asian affairs and is currently meeting with think tanks, experts and commentators in East Asia’s major cities researching political integration. China and India (Chindia) is on everybody’s lips when talking about rising Asia. Then what is KIA? A car, most people would reply. Yet it could [...]

East Java has long been known as one of Indonesia’s economic locomotive, hosting Surabaya as its capital. East Javanese are confident to outperform Indonesia’s economic growth. Well, GNFI will post about this seriously in the future. Bear with us, stay tune! Now, let’s take a look at West Java province. It has long been known as [...]

Arya Lukito, Carbon Energy Expert, Phnom Penh (Cambodia) Indonesia 2020, hmm…its difficult for me to have clear imagination on how it would looks like. Advanced ? high tech living ? Anyhow, according to my perception, Indonesia will most likely transforming itself into an advance and fast growing nation as we see many moderate improvements in the [...]

Indonesia’s economy expanded 4 percent in the second quarter, the fastest pace in Southeast Asia, as low borrowing costs and the re-election of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono buoyed consumer spending. Gross domestic product grew faster than the 3.8 percent median forecast of 17 economists in a Bloomberg News survey, compared with 4.4 percent gain in the previous three [...]

Text by Julia Suryakusuma Looking at Indonesia today, what do we have to be proud of? Here’s one tip: not politicians! But putting our disappointing friends in the DPR to one side, I think we Indonesians actually have a lot to be proud of, even if we sometimes forget it. That’s why I enjoyed two new children’s [...]

The telecommunication business today is growing vastly and rapidly. Globalization also being a part of the daily life of the people that cannot be separated. One of the major activities to promote the above globalization is the growth of leading edge technology of the telecommunications that happens from time to time. The end of the [...]

It has been highly publicized worldwide about the great skill of Special Detachment 88 (Densus 88), Indonesia’s Anti-Terror squad. It had captured many terrorist fugitives, including Dr. Azahari, the mastermind of serial bombings in Indonesia. Just about 10 hours ago, it made us proud again by storming terrorist hideout and permanently eliminated the allegedly (and [...]

Several months ago, GNFI wrote about Indonesia’s Kartika Airlines order of 15 units of Superjet 100, a highly-praised Russian commercial jet which amazed thousands of visitors at Le Bourget Airshow in France. Kartika Airlines has tentatively agreed to become the Asian launch customer for the Superjet 100, with a potential order for up to 30 [...]

Discovery Channel Military edition 2008 broadcasted the world’s best elite forces. Elite forces from around the globe was measured by its performance and skill (not by the military technology), where military experts and analyst across the globe were invited to give their judgments. Here’s the Top 3 : 1. United Kingdom’s SAS 2. Israel’s MOSSAD 3. Indonesia’s KOPASSUS You [...]