Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Edition — October 2017

businesstraveller.com OCTOBER 2017

INDONESIA IN NUMBERS

18,307

Number of islands that the

country comprises

(about 6,000 inhabited)

742

Approximate number

of local languages

spoken

102 million

Number of internet users in 2016

Sources: PwC, BBC, World Bank, UKTI Indonesia, Boston Consulting Group

1

World ranking in

terms of Muslim

population

(87% of 261

million people)

3

World ranking

in terms of size

of democracy

88

million

Approximate number of

middle class people

55

million

Skilled workers today

130

million

Projected number of

skilled workers by 2025

16

World

ranking for

Indonesia’s

economy

today

4

Projected

world ranking

for Indonesia’s

economy in

2050

5.8

Percentage the

economy has

grown year-on-

year over the

past decade

91

World

ranking

for ease

of doing

business

2004

First-ever

presidential

elections

60 Percentage of people under the age of 30

141

million

Number of middle class

people predicted in 2020

Business in... Jakarta I 31

US$560 million Terminal 3 opened at Jakarta Soekarno-
Hatta airport. It is initially being used for domestic
flights, but once running smoothly, international
services will move over. Kumar says: “Not a lot of
leisure travel comes into the city. It has little to offer

• at the weekends locals are in Singapore. On Friday
  evenings, flights are full.”
  An express rail link to downtown is coming this year
  and a third runway is being developed. By next year, the
  hub will be able to handle 62 million passengers annually.
  With a population of 12 million people, Jakarta is a
  sprawling mega city with no discernible boundary, and
  little in the way of pedestrian-friendly zones. There
  is Chinatown, with its dank alleyways, market stalls
  selling nets of live frogs and crabs, and the charred,
  smoky Dharma Bhakti Temple (it caught fire last year
  but still has a forest of man-high candles burning
  inside). And there are car-free Sundays on Sudirman
  and Thamrin roads.
  The old Dutch colonial area of Kota Tua, once the
  heart of Batavia, was the capital city of the Dutch East
  Indies. Up until 1942, when the Japanese took control,
  it formed a key trading centre with Asia, which saw
  spices, tobacco, sugar, opium, coffee and tea flow in
  and out with the help of a network of canals.