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    EKONID completes first student selection and trainers examination for GDVET in Hotel Management program

    On Monday, July 31, 2023, AHK Indonesia, or EKONID, completed the student selection as well as the training-of-trainers exam phases of its newly launched German Dual Vocational and Education Training (GDVET) in Hotel Management program.

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    Beiersdorf inaugurates factory expansion in Malang, E. Java

    Beiersdorf, the German-based manufacturer of personal care products known for its Nivea skincare product lineup, inaugurated the expansion of its factory in Malang, East Java, as part of its commitment to strengthening its presence and fulfilling the growing demand for personal care.

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    EKONID co-hosts ECA Conference for nearly 200 participants

    Nearly 200 participants engaged in an Export Financing Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, co-hosted by EKONID at Ayana Midplaza Jakarta, on September 19, 2023.

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    Govt. lifts all COVID-19 restrictions

    The Indonesian government has decided to lift its public activity restriction policy on COVID-19 in light of steadily declining infection rates in the country.

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    More and more investments in the nickel sector

    Indonesia's nickel processing is growing unabated: At the end of March 2023, the US automobile manufacturer Ford announced that it would invest 4.5 billion US dollars in a joint venture with China's Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt and the mining group Vale Indonesia. Specifically, it is a plant for high-pressure acid leaching (HPAL - High Pressure Acid Leaching) in the province of Southeast Sulawesi. At the end of January 2023, BASF announced that it was examining the construction of a $2.6 billion nickel processing plant in Sulawesi together with the French company Eramet. Indonesia is in negotiations with the electric car manufacturer Tesla about investments in the nickel sector. Volkswagen is also considering getting involved.

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    Indonesia Remains Committed to Driving Energy Efficiency in Industries, Transport, Homes

    Lately, the Indonesian capital of Jakarta has been seeing itself starring in many headlines around the world for the wrong reason: that of being one of the world’s most polluted cities on Earth, at least according to IQAir, a Swiss-based air quality technology company that also operates AirVisual, a real-time air quality information platform.

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    JETP aims to make Indonesia less dependent on coal

    With Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETP), a group of industrialized nations wants to subsidize a fair energy transition in selected emerging and developing countries and thus promote climate protection. At the G20 summit in Bali in November 2022, the JETP was announced between Indonesia and the G7 countries as well as Denmark and Norway. It is intended to contribute to the Indonesian energy transition.

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    HSBC, EKONID Support Investment in EV Supply Chain

    On March 8, 2023, HSBC Indonesia, in cooperation with EKONID, organized the HSBC Investment Forum 2023: Accelerating Indonesia’s Ambition to be the World’s Largest EV Supply Chain Hub. Held at The Glass House of Ritz Carlton Pacific Place Jakarta, the event gathered around 100 participants from the public and private sectors.

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    Indonesian construction market steadily recovers

    Apart from some operational disruptions due to the Russia-Ukraine war and the still-ongoing pandemic, the construction industry in Indonesia – which is segmented by the key sectors of commercial, residential, industrial, infrastructure, as well as energy and utility construction – is steadily recovering.

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    New Supervisory Board member, Mr. Alexander Grenz, Country Manager and President Director Allianz Life Indonesia

    EKONID extends its warmest welcome to its new Supervisory Board member, Mr. Alexander Grenz, Country Manager and President Director Allianz Life Indonesia

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    Jakarta-Berlin Strengthen Collaboration on Innovation & Technology

    The Government of DKI Jakarta and the City of Berlin signed a Joint Declaration on Innovation and Technology on September 7, 2023, at the Jakarta Future City Hub in Gambir, Central Jakarta.

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    Imports from Germany increased by 40 percent

    German products are experiencing a powerful surge in demand in Indonesia. Imports from other EU countries are also increasing. China's share is shrinking for the first time.

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    ifm electronic expands on-site in Indonesia with new office

    The German sensor and automation company wants to be present to make “Making Indonesia 4.0” a success.

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    EKONID Event 50th Annual Members Meeting 2022

    On the 27th of April 2022, EKONID successfully held the 50th Annual Members Meeting (AMM) at Ayana Midplaza, Jakarta. After being postponed for over two years, the AMM is back this year in hybrid system. 80 participants were attending the event on-site, and five participants joined through Zoom platform. Various aspects were being reported during the AMM, ranging from our activities in 2019 – 2021 EKONID Annual Report, financial statement, to ongoing and future initiatives in 2022. The upcoming activities in 2022 will focus on Hydrogen, E-Mobility, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), and Supply Chain Due Diligence Management Training.

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    TIA Portal V18: your gateway to automation in the Digital Enterprise

    Over the coming decades, digital technologies will make the manufacturing industry more connected, intelligent, efficient, reliable, and sustainable. Hence, businesses will seek the best technological solution to help them to reduce time to market and increase their plant's productivity. Siemens is offering the new V18 version of the Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) Portal at the TIA Portal Tech-Connext event on 30 - 31 May 2023 in Ayana Hotel Jakarta.

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    Return to the Upper-Middle-Income Economy

    With a gross national income (GNI, simplified: income of residents) per capita of US$4,580, Indonesia has risen again to the upper-middle income economy. This term designates a so-called Lending Group of the World Bank as a rough measure of creditworthiness. The lower limit is US$ 4,465. In 2020, Indonesia was declared an upper-middle-income economy for the first time. The archipelago's per capita GNI had nominally increased sevenfold since the end of the Asian crisis at the turn of the millennium. In the corona crisis, Indonesia then fell back into the lower-middle-income economy category.

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