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Indonesia
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Indonesia Keeps Rate on Hold in May: Is Monetary Tightening Still Far Away?
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Indonesia: External Accounts
Indonesia’s Exports Expand 57.1% in February: Is the Strong Momentum Sustainable?
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Indonesia: Asset Markets
Will Indonesia’s Stock Market Be Asia's Best Performer in 2010?
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Indonesia: Domestic Politics
Are Politics Hindering Indonesia's Growth and Reform Agenda?
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Indonesia: Economic Profile
Indonesia’s Economy Expands 5.7% in Q1: Will Growth Continue to Speed Up in 2010?
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RGE's Q2 2010 Indonesia Outlook
Indonesia remained one of the bright spots in Southeast Asia during the economic downturn, growing 4.5% in 2009.
Though investment is recovering sluggishly, strong fiscal stimulus, capital inflows and consumer spending are buoying
growth, as are commodity prices and exports to China...Capital inflows and the energy sector will largely take
cues from global trends but nonetheless will support investment activity, asset markets and exports. These factors
should help Indonesia attain its potential growth rate of 7.0% in the next few years; however, lagging reform efforts
and the continued presence of corruption, political friction and infrastructure bottlenecks could hurt investor
optimism.
Read the Q2 2010 Indonesia Outlook
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Indonesia finance minister resigns
for World Bank post
BBC: 5 May 2010
Indonesia's Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has been appointed managing director of the World Bank.
Accepting her resignation, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono praised her success in reforming the economy and
said he would "truly miss" her.
Ms Indrawati has largely been credited with steering South East Asia's largest economy through the financial crisis.
Investor concern
Ms Indrawati will be second-in-command at one of the most influential financial institutions in the world once
she takes up her new post on 1 June.
She will be in charge of three main regions - Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa
and East Africa and the Pacific.
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