Growing domestic market ignites investment in Indonesia

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By Alex Lennane

24/02/2014

DHL Global Forwarding, Yusen Logistics, Damco, Foxconn, Blackberry – they have all got their eyes on the prize in Indonesia. The prize being a 250m population growing steadily more wealthy as government economic policies begin to kick in. While there are still big challenges, a country which came fifth in Agility’s latest Emerging Markets Index, only behind China and India in Asia, it appears to be one not best ignored.

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