The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade agreement concluded and signed by 12 Pacific Rim countries and is set to frame the rules of trade and investment in the Pacific region. Currently, Indonesia...
The purpose of this note is to evaluate the outcome of two sets of actions, included in the first of Indonesia’s economic policy packages issued in September 2015 and supported by the Logistics DPL I...
Over the last years policy makers and the media have increasingly paid attention to the high logistics costs in Indonesia. This has important implications for prices and availability of goods particularly...
Indonesia, like many other emerging countries, views the development of a thriving intermediate inputs industry as a cornerstone of its industrialization process. The government has been increasingly leaning...
High inflation and price volatility for food commodities is a major challenge in Indonesia. The country is home to 30 million people living under poverty line and an addition of 65 million people vulnerable...
In coherence with the Indonesia's National Medium Term Plan 2014-2019, a series of economic reform packages confirmed the Indonesian Government's commitment to developing the country's manufacturing sector...
The Ministry of Trade (MoT) of Republic of Indonesia has requested the support of the World Bank in devising new and improve trade related policies for the benefit of the Indonesian economy. The MoT -...
Intellectual property (IP) protection plays an important role in incentivizing innovation and creativity. This role is well recognized by the trans-Pacific partnership (TPP) agreement that grants ambitious...
This report analyses the treatment of Malaysia and Viet Nam under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) from a legal perspective. It focuses on areas where Malaysia and/or Viet Nam are subject to provisions...
We examine the impact of the ban on the use of Jakarta port for the import of horticultural products into Java on horticultural prices. Since June 2012 those products cannot any longer enter Java through...
Indonesia is unique: no other nation is as archipelagic in nature as Indonesia. Over 17,000 islands span across 5,200 km and provide 54,000 km of coastline. Previously, the Dutch added their packet steamers...