Indonesian manufacturing sector still very underdeveloped by the mid-1970s. Combination of several factors to create an especially favourable environment for manufacturing growth throughout the second half of the 1970s. Growth of large and medium manufacturing sector 1981-84. Employment growth...

Wage trends have become an increasingly important issue in the national economic and political scene in the 1990s. Deregulation and subsequent non-oil export growth have brought wage costs and trends sharply into focus, in comparison with developments among Indonesia's neighbours. The paper...