Oct 27, 2015 | Industries, Market, News Group
Bank Mayapada (MAYA) continues showing its growing profit earning, also among the fastest growing banks in the past two years. It booked profit after tax of Rp530.49 billion in the first nine months to September of 2015 period, jumped 40.6% from Rp376.87 billion in...
Oct 26, 2015 | Industries, Market
Flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk posted a net profit of US$51.4 million in the first nine months to September of 2015—a 123.4% jump—after the Company suffered a loss of US$220.1 million in the corresponding period of last year. Revenue only increased 0.5% to...
Oct 26, 2015 | Industries
Exotico Skinny Green Coffee was nominated as one of ten finalists of the 2015 Salon International de l’Agroalimentaire (SIAL) Canada Reveals Innovation Award. Skinny green coffee, which is made using the Sumatera Robusta Green Coffee, is the product of an...
Oct 26, 2015 | Commodities, Industries, Market
On Thursday (Oct. 22), the Sustainable Coffee Platform of Indonesia (Scopi) held a workshop on farming for business. The workshop presented two Indonesian coffee farmers, Suyono and Julian Bagus. The two shared different stories on how they grow coffee and improve...
Oct 26, 2015 | Industries, Law
On October 21, 2015, the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim Polri) issued a shocking announcement. PT Bumi Mekar Hijau (BMH), one of the companies previously named as a suspect of illegal forest clearing, was suddenly a suspect no more. The...
Oct 23, 2015 | Industries, Market, Reviews
This dish looks and tastes like beef jerky, but it isn’t. It’s banana blossom and cashew fruit, an alternative to a rich red meat dish that Diah Retnowati, an East Java based...
Oct 22, 2015 | Industries, News Group
Nymex’s crude oil rose 0.4% to US$45.38 per barrel in Asian trading this morning. U.S. crude oil inventories rose 8 million barrels last week, the government-run Energy Information Administration (EIA) said; it was also above the 7.1 million build reported by...
Oct 22, 2015 | Industries, News Group, Reviews
The Indonesian press scene flourished after the fall of Soeharto’s New Order Regime. After decades of oppression, the press was finally able to freely maneuver Indonesia’s big issues. Companies began to enter the media industry and established television...
Oct 21, 2015 | Commodities, Industries, Market, Reviews
World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 131 million tonnes (Mt) in September 2015, a -3.7% decrease compared to September 2014, where China, the world’s single largest producer, also reported 3%...
Oct 20, 2015 | Industries, Reviews
Before the development of call centers, customer were to to communicating with brands and filing complaints by way of a formal letter of complaint, or in some cases, the newspaper. Call centers made it easy for customers to directly reach representatives of brands and...