Quiet (mass) layoffs (10)

Some Indonesian manufacturers opted to reduce significantly their workforce due to steady increase of minimum wage and allowances. Others avoided adding workers due to higher portion of direct labour costs in manufacturing activities. Kirana Megatara (KMTR), the...

Uni-Charm turns to huge losses

PT Uni-Charm Indonesia Tbk (UCID), one of big players in diapers market, booked net loss of Rp1.19 trillion last year against net profit of Rp350 billion in 2024. What happened to the company? First of all, sales revenues dropped by 17.5% to Rp7.98 trillion, while...

A hiccup in pickup truck hullabaloo?

Joao Angelo de Sousa Mota, CEO of Agrinas, who dropped his resignation last year after openly criticizing Danantara, openly defended the policy to import 105,000 pickup trucks from India even after ‘strong man’ Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, deputy chairman of President Prabowo’s...

A rare opposition

Prabowo administration’s decision to import 105,000 trucks from India through state company PT Agrinas has finally gained more oppositions, which is rare these days. Analysts, automotive industry association, lawmakers, and even ministry of industry have expressed...

Rally in Spindo

Shares of PT Steel Pipe Indonesia/Spindo Tbk (ISSP) advanced 4.42% Thursday (Feb 19) to follow 7.33% gain earlier on Wednesday as investors responded positively the company’s stable financial performance last year. Spindo recorded net profit of Rp534 billion, inched...

Persistent huge losses at Fajar Paper

PT Fajar Surya Wisesa Tbk (FASW) or Fajar Paper, one of the largest paper manufacturers in the country controlled by Thailand’s SCG, reported net loss of Rp1.14 trillion last year, inched up from Rp1.1 trillion in 2024 due to a lot of factors. Fajar Paper’s sales...

Prabowo’s Co-op: Imported trucks

The Financial Services Authority (OJK) claimed that the financial system had provided Rp148.6 trillion of financing to President Prabowo’s Red-and-White Village Cooperative (KDMP) program last year. Details are not available, but since fourth quarter of 2025, PT...

Digs pocket deeper to bail out Krakatau Steel?

State steel maker PT Krakatau Steel (KRAS), which struggled for decades to make money, has Danantara as its saviour. After receiving US$295 million shareholders’ loan late last year, which likely be converted into equity, Danantara stepped in as investor to replace...

Danantara’s integrated poultry projects

ID Food, a state company involved in some food commodities, has over the weekend kicked off development of integrated poultry facilities in five locations under the Rp20 trillion investment from Danantara. The Phase I consists of facilities in Malang Regency (East...

Garam’s salt projects

Danantara, holding company for state plantations, through state salt producer PT Garam, had officially kicked off three projects to support national salt self-sufficiency in East Java province, expanding the company’s output by 380,000 tons annually. PT Garam project...
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