Based on the latest data from Indonesia's Statistics Agency (BPS), released on Monday morning (15/05), Indonesia's export and import performance in April 2017 slightly weakened compared to the performance in the preceding month but remains in much better shape than it was in April one year ago. The nation's April trade surplus is USD $1.24 billion, smaller than the revised USD $1.39 billion surplus in the preceding month but still exceeding analysts' forecasts.

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Stocks in the Asia-Pacific region are experiencing a mixed start of trading on Monday (15/05), while safe haven assets (Japan's yen, US treasuries and gold) continue their gains. Investors are concerned about the size of the ransomware attack, a new missile test that is conducted by North Korea over the weekend, while Asia still needs to digest weaker-than-expected economic data from the USA that was released late last week.

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On 14 May 2017, Indonesia Investments released the latest edition of its newsletter. This free newsletter, which is sent to our subscribers once per week, contains the most important news stories from Indonesia that have been reported on our website over the last seven days. Most of the topics involve political and economy-related matters such as former Jakarta governor Ahok's blasphemy case, Asia's aging populations, Indonesia's sharply growing mobile commerce market, the oil & gas sector, the automotive industry, and more.

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Fast Food Indonesia, the only franchise holder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) brand in Indonesia, added five new KFC outlets in the first quarter of 2017. This is a mediocre result considering the company targets to open a total of 30 new KFC stores across Indonesia in full-year 2017. With the five additional outlets in Q1-2017 Fast Food Indonesia now operates 580 KFC outlets across the Archipelago.

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