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Indonesia shipping report Q3 2013 : includes 5-year forecasts to 2017
Our outlook for the Indonesian economy remains unchanged since our last quarterly report. BMI continues to forecast GDP growth of 6.1% in 2013, rising to 6.4% in 2014. The big driver of this growth is domestic consumer spending, which represents around 55% of GDP. Coupled with good fundamentals and gradual improvements in the operating environment as a result of government reforms, this has given Indonesia significant resilience against external headwinds. One of the main concerns on the latter front has been the deterioration in the terms of trade over the last year, with the prices of key exports seeing sharp falls: palm oil prices fell 33.4% since May 2012, and coal prices slumped by 17.2%. On the plus side we think these commodity prices are now stabilising. Political risk may increase in the run-up to the 2014 general elections and we remain concerned over the temptation to follow populist economic policies (the current government plans to ban unprocessed mineral exports in 2014 as a way of ensuring that more value-added refining and processing remains within the country). Overall however, Indonesia is set to see steady growth which will offer support to the shipping and ports sector In fact, over the next five years annual GDP growth is set to average 6.4%, confirming the country's status as one of the top performers in Asia.
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