Economist, Centennial Asia Advisors

Nicholas Chia

Centennial Asia Advisors deliver timely and accurate economic and political analysis to investors, focused on anticipating key turning points that affect the client’s interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Clients include public agencies and central banks, as well as fund managers and investment banks. The company draws strength from its flexibility to tailor products to fit client’s specific interests. It provides detailed macro-economic forecasts, scenario analysis and timely assessments of how specific major economic and political developments may affect a client’s areas of interest. At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way.

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<li>Recent surveys point to President Jokowi’s continuing popularity, despite his government’s incoherent response to the pandemic.</li>
<li>President Jokowi has put his significant political capital to work with tough attempts to roll back growing Islamisation in Indonesia.</li>
<li>The economic reform agenda clearly has legs. The draft implementing regulations for the omnibus bill on job creation virtually halves severance pay, which bodes well for the investment climate.</li>
<li>Other planks of the reform agenda include the looming establishment of a land bank, the revision of the negative investment list, bureaucratic reforms and tax hikes, all of which will provide a powerful cumulative impact to growth in time to come.</li>
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Recent surveys point to President Jokowi’s continuing popularity, despite his government’s incoherent response to the pandemic.
President Jokowi has put his significant political capital to work with tough attempts to roll back growing Islamisation in Indonesia.
The economic reform agenda clearly has legs. The draft implementing regulations for the omnibus bill on job creation virtually halves severance pay, which bodes well for the investment climate.
Other planks of the reform agenda include the looming establishment of a land bank, the revision of the negative investment list, bureaucratic reforms and tax hikes, all of which will provide a powerful cumulative impact to growth in time to come.


Indonesia: Intensifying Reform Agenda Under an Unbridled Jokowi Is Good News for the Economy