May 29, 2015 | Industries, Market, Reviews
Pharmaceutical and consumer products player Tempo Scan Pacific (TSPC) booked net profit of Rp231.9 billion in the first quarter of 2015, down 8.6% from the corresponding period of 2014. The Company’s annualised earning per share (EPS) makes its shares looked...
May 29, 2015 | Industries, Market
Bakrieland Development (ELTY), property company controlled by Bakrie Family, booked net loss of Rp42 billion in the first quarter of 2015 against profit of Rp69 billion in the same period of last year. The Company’s sales revenue collapsed 49.3% to Rp320...
May 29, 2015 | Industries
Xiaomi is a smartphone producer from the People’s Republic of China. The company Xiaomi Inc was established in 2010, but its product only entered the Indonesian market by August 2014—six months after Xiaomi hits the Singapore market in February 2014. Xiaomi has...
May 29, 2015 | Industries, Market
Four global smartphone producers/vendors are set to operate their factories in Indonesia in response to the government’s plan to boost local content in smartphone products. Ignatius Warsito, an official from the Ministry of Industry, identified the four...
May 28, 2015 | Industries, Politics
President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo had a very busy day Wednesday (May 27). He met delegations from China and Japan at the State Palace, Jakarta to discuss, among other things, development of infrastructures in Indonesia. The President met Liu Yandong, deputy...
May 28, 2015 | Industries
Technopreneur, Calvin Kizana, established the smartphone, photo-sharing application PicMix in 2012. Similar to William Tanuwijaya of Tokopedia, Calvin did not come from a rich family in Jakarta. He had to support himself financially while pursuing a degree in Computer...
May 28, 2015 | Industries
One of the most popular logistics players in Indonesia is JNE of PT Tiki Jalur Nugraha Ekakurir (JNE). But there is another company that we must not overlook: the oldest state-owned postal services company PT Pos Indonesia. Agus F Handoyo, the director of Mails and...
May 28, 2015 | Industries, Reviews
PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) IV has just kicked off construction of the so-called Makassar New Port in South Sulawesi last week. President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo himself launched the project as part of the so-called ‘Sea Toll Program’...
May 27, 2015 | Industries, Politics
Directorate General of Railways at Ministry of Transportation has just released its Railways Strategic Plan for 2015-2019, outlining Jokowi-Kalla regime’s plan to develop 3,000 KM of railways in five major islands of Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Kalimantan, and...
May 27, 2015 | Industries
Social media—be it in the form of blog, microblog, or social network—has become one of the channels for consumers to express their opinion about companies, products, and services. Some companies take consumer’s opinion well, they use them as lessons for improving...
