Macro and Other News
Bank Indonesia — to announce new ruling on reserve requirement.
Bank Indonesia will have their monthly meeting today in which they will decide on:
1. Benchmark BI rate, which is expected to remain unchanged at 6.5%.
2. New ruling on primary reserve requirement on Rupiah deposits. Currently the primary rr is set at 5% that is placed in Bank Indonesia, earning small interest. In addition there is 2.5% secondary reserve requirement, which can be placed in government papers or SBI, earning around 6.5% currently.
The new ruling will set the primary rr based on the bank's LDR and is aimed to ask banks to be more active in lending. The central bank has been indicating that LDR of 78-102% will be the benchmark in which banks with LDR of <78%>102% LDR.
The industry LDR is now at 77% but larger banks tend to have lower LDR, not because of their slow loan growth but because of deposits keep coming to them such as in BCA and Mandiri.
A similar ruling was implemented during 2005 until late 2008 when rr was calculated based on a bank's total deposits and LDR level. Although there is some impact on declining interest income for banks with low LDR, we believe this will not be that significant (roughly 1% earning reduction only. We thus maintain our positive view on the banks with top picks on BBNI IJ (TP IDR3,800) and Bank Danamon (TP IDR6,300).
Corporate-related
§ Antimonopoly Commission Objects to Unilever Takeover of Sara Lee Body Care (Jakarta Globe) KPPU said it had rejected Unilever Indonesia’s proposed acquisition of Sara Lee Body Care Indonesia during an initial assessment after determining that it would lead to market domination in two product categories (market share of >50% in men’s hair cream and deodorant). However, KPPU spokesperson said this did not mean the KPPU would necessarily reject the merger, because a more thorough study will be conducted before the final verdict. Franky, corporate secretary for Unilever Indonesia, denied that the merged company would capture >50% of the market for men’s hair cream and deodorant, and said he was confident the merger would be approved during the second assessment.
§ Garuda Taps UBS, Citigroup as IPO Underwriters (Wall Street Journal) Airline company PT Garuda Indonesia has appointed UBS and Citigroup as int’l underwriters for its IPO, scheduled for later this year, a company executive said Thursday. "We have appointed both of them. We aim to raise US$300m from the public offering," President Director Emirsyah Satar said. Mr. Satar said Garuda plans to showcase its offering internationally in Nov. Garuda has previously appointed Bahana Securities, Danareksa Sekuritas and Mandiri Sekuritas to act as local underwriters.
§ Harum Energy targets to tap Rp4t from IPO (Investor Daily) Harum Energy targets to tap Rp3.25-4.09t from IPO. The company will sell 24.07% (650k shr) of its stake at Rp5,000-6,300/shr, translating into the expected PER of 7-9x in 2011, Ciptadana director said.
§ Adaro Energy to acquire Bhakti Energi (Investor Daily) Adaro plans to acquire Bhakti Energi, owned by one of Adaro’s founder TP Rachmat. There are no details yet on the value of acquisition but it’s been reported Adaro will use its internal cash to finance its planned acquisition. Currently Bhakti Energi owns four coal mines in East Kalimantan with total reserve of 5.6b metric. The company targets to produce about 700k tonnes of coal this year.
§ Thai Coal Giant Banpu Says It’s Still Committed to ITM Despite Stake Sale (Jakarta Globe) Banpu said it was still committed to a long-term investment in Indonesian unit Indo Tambangraya Megah after selling an 8.7% stake for US$395m. A subsidiary, Banpu Minerals, sold the stake to institutional investors through a market placement on Thursday. The transaction was expected to be completed on Tuesday. 10% of the shares were offered to Indonesian investors while the rest went to int’l investors, according to a source from an Indonesian brokerage with direct knowledge of the deal.
§ Fast-Food Giant Cuts Ties With Sinar Mas (Jakarta Globe) US fast food giant Burger King said that it would no longer buy palm oil from Sinar Mas or its subsidiaries, after Greenpeace’s successful campaign against the Indonesian group’s land-clearing practices. Burger King said a recent independent audit of Sinar Mas palm oil unit Smart’s land-clearing practices — commissioned by Sinar Mas in response to the Greenpeace allegations — revealed activities “inconsistent with our corporate responsibility commitments”.
§ Alcatel-Lucent to help Telkom cope with traffic (Jakarta Globe) Alcatel-Lucent said it had been contracted to upgrade Telkom’s network backbone to accommodate increasing traffic and simplify its system while reducing costs. Alcatel said the project would also address operational and power consumption challenges resulting from traffic growth. Telkom said its number of fixed broadband subscribers expanded by 79%y-y in the 1Q, while mobile broadband users soared 607%.
§ GM Mulls Indonesian Plant (Jakarta Globe) General Motors, the largest US automaker, may spend US$150m to restart a plant in Indonesia that has been closed for about five years, said Tim Lee, the company’s president for int’l operations. A decision on whether to reopen the factory, which could initially produce 50k vehicles a year, will be made within 90 days, Lee said on Thursday during a press briefing in Bangkok. The plant would make multipurpose vehicles, he said.
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- Tjandra Lienandjaja 62-21-2358 4935 tjandra.lienandjaja@asia.bnpparibas.com
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- Helmy Kristanto 62-21-2358 4939 helmy.kristanto@asia.bnpparibas.com
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