Mandiri to Stage Investment Forum to Boost Investment
01/22/15

Jakarta, January 22, 2015 - Bank Mandiri will stage an Investment Forum so as to help boost investment in Indonesia. The event, which will also be sponsored by Barclays and Mandiri Sekuritas, will be held on January 27, 2015, and bring together stakeholders and about 700 investors, including 150 from foreign institutional investors.

As part of the event, investors will also be brought on site visits to a number of property, retail and infrastructure project locations to get the latest updates and first-hand information on projects that are suitable for private-sector support. In addition, selected investors are scheduled to hold separate one-on-one or small-group meetings with Indonesian companies to explore prospective business and investment opportunities.

Bank Mandiri Director of Finance & Strategy Pahala N. Mansury said that the forum was expected to serve as an information bridge between regulators such as line ministries, Bank Indonesia and the Financial Services Authority (OJK), and potential investors in connection with investment opportunities and the overall investment climate.

"With a better understanding of the various reforms and innovations that have been introduced by the government so as to improve the investment climate in Indonesia, investors will be more confident about making investments in this country, especially in those sectors that are being prioritized by government," Pahala explained.

The event, which is themed "Indonesia: Pushing Structural Reform," is expected to be opened by Vice President Jusuf Kalla and attended by a number of ministers, including Minister of Finance Bambang Brodjonegoro, Transportation Minister Ignatius Jonan, and Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said, as well as the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the OJK, Muliaman D. Hadad, and the Governor of Bank Indonesia, Agus Martowardojo.

The speakers at the event will discuss the outlook for Indonesia's economy and fiscal and monetary policy directions going ahead to ensure consistent national economic growth.

In addition to regulators, the forum will also feature keynote speaker Jim O'Neill, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Manchester and a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Jim is also the author of "The Growth Map", in which the term BRICs (to describe Brazil, Russia, India and China as motors of the global economy) was first coined.

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