Industry Newsletters

President Joko's government has enacted new health-related regulations, one of which is an excise tax on processed foods, including ready-to-eat processed foods. The provision is contained in Government Regulation No. 28 of 2024 No. 17 of 2023 on the Implementation of the Health Law...

Java is the center of Indonesia's manufacturing industry, and Indonesia's Central Java Industrial Belt is one of the three industrial belts on the island of Java, the emerging vibrant industrial belt, the cost of land and labor costs are very competitive, the cost of land is about 50-100 US...

The government has decided to stop the construction of new nickel refining facilities or smelters producing low value-added products, namely rotary kiln electric furnace (RKEF) smelters producing nickel pig iron (NPI). The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources said at the Jakarta Petroleum and Natural...

The Minister of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (MenKopUKM) has asked the Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) to further tighten control over the flow of imported goods, especially finished products or consumer goods, in order to protect local products from the onslaught of imported goods. The government is pushing...

Shopee e-commerce platform will implement a new policy for product categories and management fees starting September 1, 2024, and this update applies to sellers in non-Star, Star and Star+ categories. In this new policy, Shopee will apply four new product...

Industrial land sales in Jabodetabek, Greater Jakarta Metropolitan Area experienced very high growth in the second quarter of 2024, with industrial land sales transactions of 182.9 hectares, an increase of 1,84% compared to the previous quarter, and in the first quarter of 2024, industrial...

On July 25th, Wang Palm departed from Jakarta and landed in Semarang, the core city of the Central Java Industrial Belt, after a 1-hour flight, followed by another 1-hour drive to Batang Wanxinda Industry, 60 kilometers west of Semarang...

Manufacturing industry in Indonesia to choose a site to land, must understand the three major industrial belts on the island of Java. On the island of Java, the main manufacturing industry belt from west to east, divided into three major blocks are the Javan industrial belt, Central Java industrial belt, and East Java...

Indonesia trade business, too difficult? The recent week's news that the Indonesian government department is going to rectify the illegal imported products keeps hitting the nerves of traders and e-commerce practitioners, and to be on the safe side, a lot of stalls doing offline wholesaling have started to make a big...

Indonesia to heavily rectify illegal imports? Yes, on July 17, Indonesia's Trade Minister Hassan told the media that he would formally set up a special task force to rectify illegal imports on July 19, together with major regulators, what is the specific...