Street believes Indonesia economic will hit stronger this year and next year, on back of reasons:
- Relative strong Domestic Market due to,
- Dependable to Export is very low in Indonesia, 25% out of GDP is export
- low debt exposure,
- Despite USD dependency is big in Indonesia but lesson from Asia Crisis made Indonesia more mature and conservative.
- Commodity is the major driver in the Future in Indonesia. Positive argument for commodity dependency is when a country has big USD liability. A study believes that depreciation in USD would boost commodity price higher, this can give cushion to commodity related company whatsoever.
Key Bullish on Indonesia
1) Low Interest Rate
2) Political Stability
3) Population Growth is on constant rate
4) Infrastructure Bottleneck opens big opportunity of investment
Top-Down analysis sector in Indonesia
We believe a country can only growth if the Financial system or in this case Banking Sector is stable or liquidity aids for expansion such as Loan availability and infrastructure system to support flow of capital.
So, if a bank not doing their job a country will not able to grow and other non-banking sector will stay put and no wise for you to invest in Indonesia and foreign investment will low and capital outflow to other growing emerging market will stream away from the country. This is what we can see happening in United Stated of America.
Therefore we recommend Overweight Sector of Banking In indonesia.
Bank to be selected is bank with light of LDR and High CAR and potential to raise Third Fund party in the future.
In this case we are not concern on NPL and NIM because out focus in for long-term investment.
The other interesting Sector is Commodity Stock. Indonesia is the key commodity supply for China, Japan and India. We believe supply is for this country will continue increase at least for the next 5 years. So, in our view is that increasing supply only can be supported if a country has large reserve and potential exploration in the future.
My take is, Heavy Equipment and Mining Contractor to be the most beneficial due to imbalance supply and demand
Thanks for Indonesia Unique market as our listed Heavy-equipment company is the largest company in Indonesia and sound of Oligopoly Industry. Here we recommend UNTR, HEXA and new comer DOID (under BUMA).
Commodity related is way to out perform the economic on our view.
We like Coal as Indonesia is the main source of Coal in Asia and company starting to become international standard of supplier coal for the world. We believe china is the largest coal producer but their demand is offsetting their supply. In additional India is coming as the new buyer for coal. Search you bloomberg to find out how critical infrastructure in India. i think is worse than Indonesia and goverment in very urgent and serious take of solving it.
How we will pick our Coal Company, First of All we have to understand that Indonesia Coal is not 100% exported. Indonesia alone need very much of coal supply to support Power Plant that very critical in Indonesia. So where can we outperform in this sector? First we have to select Largest Volume Growth Company with largest reserve available. Second we have to choose well corporate governance company where is important for future acquisition and expansion.
In this case we are not include our view of coal export concentrated Companies because coal price is volatile and our view is Long-term investment (Price very hard to be predicted rather than Volume). Other Commodity such as Tin is our favorite pick as the company remain the largest exported and the main source of world’s tins supply.
Consumer in Indonesia is healthy, debt-free, and defensive as well as have international brand. Such as, Unilever, Indofood and HMSP under Phillip Moorish.
Soft-commodity never being ignored, as population keep growing soft commodity heavily required. Catalyst for long-term is the same as hard commodity, price is hard to predicted rather than volume. We will choose company is largest land-bank and light debt to expand. Yield per hectare is important for this company in long-term because structure of planting is the key for company to increase margin in bull market.
Property the most adorable baby in Indonesia, 1) Emerging Market loves property investment as long as financial instrument still immature. 2) Defensive Housing Prices (but not at macro contraction but we believe Marco is very strong) 3) Property in Indonesia is undervalued compare to Malaysia, Singapore and China.
How we will select out best property player for the next 5 years? Property development is very aggressive in Central Java i.e. Jakarta. So are we get away from Jakarta, Don’t! I would be too speculative if I say business concentration is spreading out from Jakarta. Jakarta is remain the main capital growth city, largest population and will continue grow in the next 5 years. Despite state government is trying to prevent migration we see this as ineffective way to do so.
We also bullish in Outter-java especially commodity rich region such as Sumatra, Kalimantan dan Sulawesi.
For Selecting Stock.
1) Buy a company that has power to monopoly prime land area at Java or Outter-Java.
2) Reputation Last long
Cement is the fundamental to property growth and infrastructure spending. We see cement bag is remain the largest contributor to cement sales, means that infra. Spending and largest property development is immature on domestic cement consumption.
Strong Catalyst on Cement Company in Long-term:
- Three Company dominate 95% of market share
- Stumbling Block in Indonesia Cement Sectors due to distribution network is very complex at largest island country.
Lesson of cement sales in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and China.
Other Unique Company
Automotive – ASII, 1) well-known corporate governance 2) monopoly automotive market 3) Main player for Indonesia consumption growth
Netural Gas – PGAS 1) The only listed Gas Distribution company with large number of market share 2) Infrastructure beneficial company