Opinion: Immelt wants Obama to sell Indonesia hard on U.S. exports

At businessweek.com, Bloomberg says that General Electric Co. Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt wants Barack Obama to “sell hard” in Indonesia as he extols U.S. expertise in industries such as clean energy, adding that he may have to play catch-up, with Premier Wen Jiabao making China’s pitch in Jakarta ahead of him. Speaking at the annual meeting of the U.S. Export-Import Bank in Washington, Immelt faulted the U.S. government for being too “timid” on selling exports. Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, which Immelt included last week among nations that may provide the growth “surprise” of the next decade, has the world’s largest geothermal reserves.