Indonesia infrastructure: Forging frameworks
Indonesia has set the stage for more private sector involvement in a government-dominated and desperately underdeveloped infrastructure space. A range of intangibles could impede the integration
The completion of the Trans-Java highway this year after a concerted development push has, for the first time, connected all the major cities of Indonesia’s most populous island. The project was launched...
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