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Jul 28, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Rachel Cicilia |Claire Jiao
(Bloomberg) -- President-elect Prabowo Subianto is hoping his free school meals can unlock Indonesia’s growth potential. Two large Asian countries who’ve tread the same path offer lessons for the project’s success — and also serve as cautionary tales.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Rachel Cicilia |Claire Jiao
President-elect Prabowo Subianto is hoping his free school meals can unlock Indonesia’s growth potential. Two large Asian countries who’ve tread the same path offer lessons for the project’s success — and also serve as cautionary tales. The former general has made offering 15,000 rupiah-worth ($1) lunches to schoolchildren for free a hallmark of his campaign to lower stunting rates and improve academic performance.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Chandra G. Asmara |Rachel Cicilia
Indonesians are becoming more tolerant of corruption, as shown by its anti-graft index slipping to the lowest level since 2021. The index measuring the public’s permissiveness toward corrupt practices fell to the lowest in three years at 3.85, well below the government’s target of 4.1, according to data from the central statistics agency on Monday. A score of 0 would indicate high tolerance for graft while 5 would indicate strong rejection of it.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Chandra G. Asmara |Rachel Cicilia
Chandra Asmara and Rachel CiciliaJuly 15, 2024 at 4:44 AM·2 min read(Bloomberg) -- Indonesians are becoming more tolerant of corruption, as shown by its anti-graft index slipping to the lowest level since 2021. Most Read from BloombergTrump Shooting Changes Biden’s Plan to Revive 2024 CampaignBlackRock Says Gunman From Trump Rally Appeared in Firm’s AdTrump Emerges Defiant From Rally Attack Set to Shake Up ’24 RaceI Was at the Trump Rally Where He Was Shot.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
financialpost.com | Fathiya Dahrul |Rachel Cicilia
Indonesian mining firm PT Delta Dunia is looking for acquisition targets that would help it reduce its reliance on revenue from lower-quality coal that emits more carbon. Author of the article:Bloomberg NewsFathiya Dahrul and Rachel CiciliaPublished Jul 03, 2024 • 1 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Emissions rise from a chimney.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Fathiya Dahrul |Rachel Cicilia
Indonesian mining firm PT Delta Dunia is looking for acquisition targets that would help it reduce its reliance on revenue from lower-quality coal that emits more carbon. The company aims to increase the contribution of lower-emission coal to 28% of revenue by the end of this year and to 50% by 2028, from 19% last year. It recently spent $122.4 million to buy Atlantic Carbon Group, one of the largest US producers of anthracite, a high quality grade of coal.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Claire Jiao |Rachel Cicilia
Indonesia’s incoming government will work with the local unit of Dutch dairy producer Royal FrieslandCampina NV, among other companies, to trial its free lunch program. In August, PT Frisian Flag Indonesia will start a six-month pilot run at 10 schools in Cikarang, an industrial hub just outside of the capital Jakarta, said Corine Tap, who heads FrieslandCampina’s Asia business. The company will provide its signature milk products and help put together healthy meals for students, she said.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Claire Jiao |Rachel Cicilia
Claire Jiao and Rachel CiciliaJuly 2, 2024 at 10:03 PM·2 min read(Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s incoming government will work with the local unit of Dutch dairy producer Royal FrieslandCampina NV, among other companies, to trial its free lunch program.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Rachel Cicilia
Indonesia is back on track in reducing economic inequality, helped by increased social welfare support, according to government data. The gap between household spending among the rich- and low-income Indonesians measured by the Gini coefficient, has narrowed to a post-pandemic low of 0.379 from 0.388 last year, data from the country’s statistics agency BPS show. The lower the number, the greater the level of equality, according to the index developed by Italian statistician Corrado Gini in 1912.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
bnnbloomberg.ca | Rachel Cicilia
(Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s Tourism Minister Sandiaga Uno is on a mission to get Chinese tourists to look beyond Bali for their next tropical getaway. “Top of mind for Chinese tourists is still Bali,” Uno said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Stephen Engle on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China.
