Mega Manunggal Property, sebuah pengembang dan penyedia fasilitas logistik Indonesia, mendaftarkan sahamnya di Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) pada hari Jumat (12/06) dan karenanya menjadi perusahaan keenam yang telah melaksanakan penawaran saham perdana (IPO) di BEI tahun ini sehingga jumlah total perusahaan yang terdaftar di BEI menjadi 511 perusahaan. Mega Manunggal Property menawarkan 1,7 miliar saham, atau 30% dari modal saham yang persen dari jumlah saham yang ditempatkan dan disetor, dengan harga Rp 585 per saham maka mengumpulkan Rp 1 triliun.

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Inpex Corporation, a leading Japanese oil & gas exploration and production firm, announced today that it agreed to take part in the 330-megawatt Sarulla Geothermal Power Project in North Sumatra (Indonesia), the world’s largest single-contract geothermal power project. Inpex Corp acquired a 49 percent stake in a local unit of Medco Power Indonesia. As such, Inpex Corp’s participation in the project is indirect. Parent company Medco Power Indonesia owns a 37.5 percent stake in the Sarulla project.

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The government of Indonesia is eager to use current low coal prices as the context to push for consolidation in the country’s coal mining sector. Sudirman Said, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, announced that the government may revoke over 4,000 troubled mining licenses this month and install a better licensing system. Licenses that may be revoked are Mining Business Permits (IUPs), not the long-standing Coal Contracts of Work (PKP2B) that are held by companies such as Bumi Resources and Berau Coal Energy.

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Both Indonesian stocks and the rupiah continued to slide on Thursday (04/06) and seem to be caught in a vicious downward spiral brought about by both domestic and international factors. Indonesia’s benchmark stock index (Jakarta Composite Index) fell 0.68 percent to close at a five-week low of 5,095.82 points, while the rupiah depreciated 0.39 percent to IDR 13,281 per US dollar (Bloomberg Dollar Index), a level last seen in the late 1990s when the country was plagued by the Asian Financial Crisis.

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