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    Bayer Inaugurates Rooftop Solar Power Plant at Cimanggis Facility

    On November 14, 2024, Bayer officially inaugurated its rooftop solar power plant at its Cimanggis plant in Depok, marking the largest installation of its kind by a multinational chemical and pharmaceutical company in Indonesia.

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    Pressemitteilung: Geschäftschancen in Indonesien für deutsche Unternehmen im Bereich Automatisierungslösungen für Produktionsprozesse in der Elektronikindustrie

    Jakarta und Batam: 23. bis 26. Juni 2025

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    Minimum wages will increase by an average of 7.5% in 2023

    The Indonesian Ministry of Manpower has announced the average increase in minimum wages for 2023: It is a nominal (on a rupiah basis; US$1 = Rp 15,731) of 7.5%. In Jakarta, the minimum wage will increase by 5.6%. According to the exchange rate of the end of November 2022, the new minimum wage corresponds to $311 per month. In the remaining five provinces of Java, the increases are between 6.4% (Banten) and 8% (Central Java). The monthly minimum wages there are then between $115 and $169. For many foreign companies, Indonesia is a location for cheap contract manufacturing. The monthly minimum wages – with a standard working week of 40 hours – are an important factor for them.

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    AHK Indonesia hosts Berlin Mayor and Senator visit to Jakarta

    From September 5 to 7, AHK Indonesia (EKONID) hosted the visit of Berlin Mayor and Senator for Economic Affairs, Energy, and Public Enterprises Franziska Giffey, along with a delegation of over 30 representatives from various Berlin-based business sectors and organizations, to Jakarta, Indonesia, with the aim of strengthening the exchange of innovations and promoting stronger economic cooperation between the two cities.

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    Sea Toll, Maritime initiatives continue to drive Indonesia’s shipbuilding sector

    In 2020, the maritime industry contributed 11.3% to Indonesia’s total GDP and is expected to grow up to 12.5% by 2045. Given the extensive scope of Indonesia's maritime sector, its significance extends as a prominent symbol of the nation's strength and sovereignty and will thus continue to be a focus for development, further leveraging the country’s shipbuilding sector.

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    Siemens Indonesia Hosts Executive Summit on Digital and Sustainable Transformation

    On February 29, 2024, Siemens Indonesia organized the second edition of the Siemens Indonesia Executive Summit, marking another successful gathering of industry players and key stakeholders in the digital industry. The summit delved into technologies as well as use cases crucial for digital and sustainable transformation towards net-zero targets.

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    Indonesia's recycling industry is set up for a big boost

    Earlier this year, in January, at a dialogue event on waste management held by the Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas), Vivi Yulaswasti, Deputy for Maritime and Natural Resources at Bappenas, announced that the Ministry had concluded a cross-ministry data interoperability for waste management with two other ministries.

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    ALBA Group starts construction of US$60 million plant in Kendal, C. Java

    ALBA Group, the German-based world-leading recycling and environmental services company as well as raw material provider, has started the construction of its US$60 million waste processing facility in Kendal Industrial Park (KIP), Central Java.

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    President Jokowi, Chancellor Scholz inaugurates Indonesia Pavilion at Hannover Messe 2023

    Indonesia President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz officially opened the Indonesia Pavilion at Hannover Messe 2023, the world’s largest industrial trade fairs, on Sunday, April 16.

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    German-Indonesian Medical Devices Trade Mission

    From February 19 to 23, 2024, AHK Indonesien/EKONID organized a German Trade Mission to Indonesia, focusing on “Market Exploration for German Companies in the Field of Production Technology and Components for Medical Technology”.

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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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