Doing business: Afraid of Chinese timber products

October 9th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Business - (0 Comments)

Here a brief situation of doing business in Indonesia, bear in mind if you interested to start a business in Indonesia: More Indonesians are afraid of chinese product!

Doing business in Indonesia might be better than in Malaysia, or Thailand. Only Vietnam that has similar and comfort environment to start up a new business.

More Indonesian businessman are worrying about Chinese products that will flood Indonesia‘s markets because of the FTA agreement. Chinese products are known as cheaper, mimic and some of them are below-average quality.

The ASEAN-China FTA agreement was signed about ten years ago in Cambodia, enabling member countries to make necessary years of preparations. Why businessman still worrying on Chinese product?

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Interesting facts of wood pellet

February 24th, 2010 | Posted by iip in Energy - (12 Comments)

Indonesia, a country with largest rainforest in Asia, is engaging cooperation with Korea Forest Service to develop wood pellet as energy source from wood-processing industries. In 2007, Indonesia produced wood pellet about 40K tonnes each year, a tinny number from global wood pellet production, 10 million tonnes.

It seems Indonesia turns wood product industry into new direction, despite growing campaign on rainforest deforestation. Indonesia is experiencing a sunset era of wood product industry as the decline of its wood product exports.  Wood pellet might be potential product to raise Indonesia’s wood-based industry.

Here some interesting facts about wood pellet Europe and US:

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