Cempaka Business and Economy: Going ‘Green’ Key to Drawing Investment in Indonesia

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Friday, February 03, 2012

Going ‘Green’ Key to Drawing Investment in Indonesia

Jakart Globe, Dion Bisara, February 03, 2012

Indonesia has been warned it may not fully benefit from its recent investment
grade status to draw significant offshore funding if it fails to impress investors
looking for environmentally sustainable investments.

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Indonesia has been warned it may not fully benefit from its recent investment grade status to draw significant offshore funding if it fails to impress investors looking for environmentally sustainable investments.

Two international rating agencies have in the past month granted Southeast Asia’s largest economy investment-grade status, improving its chances of attracting long-term foreign funds.

However, Elmar Bouma, the director of the Indonesia Netherlands Association, cautioned that pension funds and investment managers, which together account for an estimated $30 trillion in capital, had strict sustainability requirements in line with the UN Principles for Responsible Investment.

“Its hard to say how much of that would come to Indonesia, because they apply much stricter standard regarding sustainability,” Bouma told a news conference on Thursday.

Data from Towers Watson and UNPRI’s Web site show that big funds include Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s second-largest sovereign fund with more than $550 billion in assets, and South Korea’s National Pension, the world’s third largest with around $290 billion.

Indonesia, with its $706 billion economy, is fast becoming a magnet for foreign investors as its growth continues amid a global crisis marked by European debt and the US economic slowdown.

Indonesia’s prudent fiscal and monetary position, coupled with its demographic bonus — a productive population that outnumbers its unproductive one — provides a foundation for accelerating growth over the next decade.

“Indonesia promises growth in the long term, but the scope of those pension funds is longer,” said Poltak Hotradero, the head of research at the Indonesia Stock Exchange.

Bouma said Indonesia’s banking system should take the initiative to spearhead sustainable banking practices. There are 120 commercial banks operating in Indonesia.

“The banking sector of Indonesia must anticipate this development to tap the new source capital,” he said.

Sakariza Qori Hermawan, group head of corporate sustainability at Bank Negara Indonesia, said Bank Indonesia, the central bank, may soon issue a regulation on green banking.

Lenders would be required to assess customers based on social and environmental sustainability standards as well as financial.

Thus far, he said, social and environmental sustainability were low priorities for Indonesia’s banks and businesses.

Sakariza said his Jakarta-based lender had only disbursed Rp 7.7 trillion ($862.4 million) in “green category” loans in 2010, or around 5.7 percent of its total outstanding loans valued at Rp 136.4 trillion. Some green loans financed geothermal power plants.

“Looking for excellent green companies is quite hard,” he said.

Sakariza said green banking would force corporations to comply with the UNPRI framework.

Rubin Japhta, a senior officer at the International Finance Corporation, said Indonesian companies and banks would need time to change their business paradigm.

While waiting for the shift, he said, Indonesian banks could try to tap the funds while committing themselves to transformation along the way.

The IFC, the investment arm of the Washington-based World Bank, has implemented these “flexible” policies with its investment partners in Indonesia including Bank Tabungan Pensiunan Negara, Bank Maybank Indonesia, Hana Bank and Bank Danamon.

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