Producing batteries for electric vehicles requires environmental and geopolitical trade-offs eyesonindonesia Amsterdam, 16 april 2023– In a miserable year for initial public offerings, Indonesia’s capital is turning heads. The Jakarta Stock Exchange enjoyed record ipo volumes in the first quarter. The $800m raised in these flotations outstripped the sums drummed up on Hong Kong’s or New York’s stock exchanges…
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Crisis SVB changes interest policies Central Banks eyesonindonesia Amsterdam, 12 March 2023– In early March, 40 chief financial officers from various technology groups gathered in Utah at the ski resort of Deer Valley for an annual “snow summit” hosted by Silicon Valley Bank, a crucial financial institution for start-ups. Barely a week later, on Thursday…
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350 km per hour eyesonindonesia Amsterdam, Sept. 1st 2022– A shipment of Chinese high-speed trains set sail for Indonesia from Qingdao earlier this year and on August 23, according to China’s state media. The trains were manufactured by CRRC Qingdao Sifan, a major train maker under state-owned CRRC. The shipment is part of an order of eleven passenger…
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Cooperation with OECD eyesonindonesia Jakarta / Amsterdam, Aug 1 st 2022– Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann renewed the OECD-Indonesia Framework of Cooperation Agreement (FCA) for another five years and launched a new, fourth Joint Work Programme (JWP) to guide co-operation in 2022-2025. The Programme will support Indonesia in advancing the implementation of its Medium-Term…
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Indonesia’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘BBB’ : Stable Outlook. fitch/eyesonindonesia Low Public Debt; Weak Revenue: Indonesia’s rating balances a favourable medium-term growth outlook and a still low government debt/GDP ratio against government revenue, sovereign external debt to GDP and structural features such as governance indicators and GDP per capita that are weak compared with…
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eyesonindonesia.com Amsterdam, June 29 2022– Indonesia announced seven new water supply and waste water treatment projects worth a total of $1.9 billion and may present significant export opportunities for EU companies. Indonesia has a population of over 268 million people but the majority do not have access to piped water and are dependent on river water or bottled water. For the 20% of…
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Clean Rivers, Cleaner Brain Part II eyesonindonesia.com Amsterdam, June 28, 2022– It’s not just consumers who should change their habits – supermarket supply chains are optimized for selling packaged products and should be overhauled. In the meantime, highly perishable goods such as asparagus, green beans and berries can end up on the field unpicked with…
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Clean Rivers, Cleaner Brain Part I eyesonindonesia.com Amsterdam, June 27, 2022– Of the 8,300 million tons of virgin plastic produced until the end of 2015, 6,300 million tons have been thrown away. Most of that plastic waste is still with us, buried in landfills or polluting the environment. Microplastics have been found in Antarctic sea…
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Part II Problems Emerging countries mdeboer FD / eyesonindonesia Amsterdam, June 11th 2022– The global debt burden has risen by almost $12,000 billion in the past corona years. Of this increase, 80% is accounted for by the emerging countries, that is a whopping$7000 billion Important numbers from the Institute of International Finance (IIF) show that the global debt…
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