Every quarter, EuroCham's Executive Board publishes a country report, distributed to EuroCham Members and select third parties, giving a commentary on the political, social, economic and business issues in Indonesia. The recent Q1 2012 issue highlights developments...

On 3 May EuroCham and its member companies, together with local and foreign associations participated in the socialisation of Minister of Trade Regulation 27:2012, which will have significant impact on the import activities of many companies. The socialisation...

At EuroCham's recent property working group meeting, the building line up for the upcoming Green Building Excursion to Hong Kong was announced. The buildings include a range of Platinum rated offices such as Interntional Commercial Center (ICC) which is a...

IFC (World Bank) is helping the Government of Jakarta to develop what they call a "Green Buildings Code". This will result in a regulation that has certain energy/water efficiency requirements for buildings. Indonesia's building sector accounted for more than a quarter of total energy use in 2004—a share that is expected to increase to nearly...

In the recently published 301 report of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on IPR Indonesia remains on the Priority Watch List. Other countries on the priority watch list include Argentina, Canada, India, Algeria, Chile, Israel, Pakistan, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela. According to the report Indonesian authorities made positive efforts...

Indonesia's recent policy has resulted in ratings agency Standard and Poor's forgoing an expected upgrade in its credit rating to investment grade. S&P kept a positive outlook  and lauded record first-quarter foreign direct investment figures, however it highlighted policies in the mining sector and postponing the fuel price hike as negative...

Garuda has signed an agreement to buy 11 Airbus A330-300 aircraft for a total of USD 2.5 billion to expand its fleet. The deal was signed by Garuda Indonesia president director Emirsyah Satar and Airbus program vice president Tom William, witnessed by President...

The European Union has suspended its sanctions against Myanmar for a year, but will retain an embargo on arms sales. The measure were adopted by the EU's foreign ministers at a meeting in Luxembourg.

The European Commission has fined 14 international groups of companies a total of 169 million euros for participating in the period 2002-2007 in four distinct cartels aimed at fixing prices and other trading conditions for international air freight forwarding services,...

European Union leaders have formally endorsed Serbia as a candidate for membership in the 27-nation bloc. Serbia began the application process in 2009. Being granted candidate status is only an initial step on the road to EU membership for Belgrade. They will still...

Thirty five years of partnership and cooperation were marked when ASEAN and EU Foreign Ministers, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs, and the Secretary-General of ASEAN met in Bandar Seri Begawan for the biannual ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting...

ASEAN Secretary General Dr Surin Pitsuwan said that, "All ASEAN Member States welcome the suspension of sanctions on Myanmar.  We have called for this soon after the country's general elections in 2010, and we reiterated our call immediately after the by-elections...

Cambodia joined the capital markets on Wednesday 18 April as its own stock market opened for trade in a bid to attract foreign capital to the Southeast Asian nation. Trade started with one stock – Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority. The start of trade comes nine...