Malaysian tabloid newspapers always display the environment here is containing a lot of provocations. I've been here nearly 2 weeks, and becoming realize the potential market that I might want to penetrate if I were given enough resources to conduct strategies.
Astro had lose in gaining the shares of TV broadcasting in Indonesia. They invest a lot (they provide the athenna for customers, they allocate more than 50% shares to start business portfolio in Indonesia). After some provocation due to unsatisfactorily by the some investors in the corporate portfolio, Astro had to divest! all the investments. They start firing up people in Malaysia last 2 years due to the lose.
It's look like the Sime Darby gonna face the same thing ya. They invest in the plantation legally in Indonesia, with approvals by the authorities, now they are in the court to get the status again.
I believe that, if you wanna operates in Indonesia, you shouldn't put your brand with regards to your country of origin, they are quite eager to piss us off, even you operate it legally, and you have black and white of documents. It's precipitous investment.
well, there are still Malaysian companies that are doing great here. One of it is CIMB. Then we have to benchmark them.
-this is personal opinion without edition-I do reading some articles before I make some evaluations- it's can't be proven as totally right information. tq~
