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Indonesia’s technology minister has taken his battle against pornography to the maker of BlackBerry smart phones, ordering the Canadian company to block digital content in one of its key Asian markets.
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: French government have expressed interest to invest in one of indonesia’s infrastucture projects promoted by the Indonesian government under the tagline “public private partnership” program that include transport, power, and clean water projects.
Jakarta. Indonesian consumers, who are fueling the country’s powerful economy, are spending too much and not saving enough, according to a Citibank survey released on Wednesday.
Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co., the largest U.S. automaker may spend $150 million to restart a plant in Indonesia that has been closed for about five years, said Tim Lee, the company’s president for international operations.
The answer to the above question is a resounding yes. Yes, Bali is definitely, and badly, overexploited. One has only to glance at the data below to be convinced that this is the current state of affairs there:Bali last year had 5.
VIVAnews - Indonesia next year will build a factory of Ammonium Nitrate Prill Plant having the largest capacity in the globe.Ammonium Nitrate Prill Plant Project Manager, Gito Waluyo, said the factory development has completed by 50 percent.
VIVAnews - The Indonesian government will be increasing the electricity tariff within the next four years as an attempt to reduce the amount of subsidy being disbursed to the electricity sector.Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo said the rise will also be applied to fertilizer and fuel.
JAKARTA, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- The increase of Internet users in Indonesia triggers growth of technology companies as the users need Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), 3G, computers and wireless equipments to access Internet, an official told Xinhua in exclusive interview on Wednesday.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia`s imports in July reached US$12.62 billion, up 7.32 percent from a month earlier, helped chiefly by a rise in non-oil/non-gas imports, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) said.Non-oil/non-gas imports rose 12.2 percent to US$10.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - China was the largest supplier of non-oil/gas imported products to Indonesia in July, the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said."The biggest non-oil/gas imports are from China worth US$1.92 billion or 18.
Jakarta. South Korea’s biggest tire producer Hankook Tire plans to invest 1.2 billion dollars to build a manufacturing plant in Indonesia, a report said Thursday.
Jakarta. With a little help from seasonal spending around the Idul Fitri holiday, nationwide retail sales were expected to surge by about 18 percent this year, the Association of Indonesian Retailers said on Monday.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government is speeding up the construction of the railroad track between Tanjung Priok port and Cikarang Dry Port integrated customs area (KPPT) to smoothen the dispatch of goods, and raise productivity and industrial capacity.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday received a Turkish delegation who came to confirm their country`s commitment to form infrastructure fund with Indonesia.
Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA News) - Bali`s foreign trade of goods, handicrafts and non-oil and gas to China including Hong Kong in early 2010 was a deficit about 1 million US dollars.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government is planning to invite a number of foreign investors to manage service facilities at Jakarta city`s Soekarno-Hatta airport, a minister said.
Seoul (ANTARA News/Yonhap/OANA) - CJ CheilJedang Corp., South Korea`s biggest food company, said Monday that it will spend US$300 million to build a lysine plant in the eastern part of the island of Java, Indonesia.Earlier in the day, CJ CheilJedang broke ground on the plant in Jombang.
Jakarta. The first phase of construction on a much-needed railway connecting Tanjung Priok Port with the country’s largest manufacturing park could be completed within three months, the coordinating minister for the economy, Hatta Rajasa, said on Saturday.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Electricity basic tariff rate (TDL) in Indonesia is the highest among ASEAN countries, Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie has said.Therefore he said Golkar strongly rejected the government`s plan to raise TDL in 2011.
Indonesia is the sleeping giant of South East Asia. With a population of 288 million, a land mass the size of Mexico and territorial waters that could fill half of China, it’s an immense country and a regional power within the geopolitical organization known as ASEAN (the Association of South East ...
This is a great move on behave of the energy minister, but a 5 percent tax cut over 6 years alone will not defeat the big dirty oil and coal industries.
Jakarta. The value of major manufactured exports jumped dramatically in the first half of the year, and the full-year totals could equal those seen in 2008, before the global financial crisis sent the world economy into a tailspin, a senior government trade official said on Thursday.
Mataram, W Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA News) - Indonesia`s foreign exchange reserves rose significantly in recent months, suggesting that the domestic economy continued to expand at a robust pace, a central bank official said on Thursday.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia`s textile and textile product exports grew by 17.4 percent in the first semester of this year, Deputy Trade Minister Mahendra Siregar said here on Thursday.He said the country`s exports of textile and textile products reached US$4.95 billion in the period.
Adani Group, the Indian conglomerate, has signed a preliminary agreement in Indonesia to build a railway line and coal terminal in remote southern Sumatra.The Indonesian Investment Co-ordination Board said on Wednesday that Adani would invest $1.
Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s economy may grow 6 percent this year and will probably accelerate in 2011, Trade Minister Mari Pangestu said.
VIVAnews - Indonesia and Malaysia are now amidst the escalating tension affecting the political relations of both countries. Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs is ready to issue a travel advisory for the citizens of Malaysia who are willing to visit Indonesia.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia`s health equipment market is worth Rp22 trillion but it is still dominated by foreign products, according to the Association of Indonesian Health and Laboratory Equipment Traders.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - ASEAN economic ministers have agreed to facilitate investment inflows to the region by conducting joint investment promotion campaigns, the Indonesian Trade Ministry said.
Jakarta. In a meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Jakarta on Wednesday, the head of Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic confirmed that it planned to move its production base to Indonesia, senior Indonesian government officials said.
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The Energy and Mineral Department has unveiled today a new directorate which will in charge on the new field of energy which had not received the size of emphasize before, the renewables.
Jakarta. Many domestic producers of food, beverages and cosmetics have been battered by the Asean-China Trade Agreement and are choosing to import products and sell them rather than produce them, the Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) says.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE), a subsidiary of state oil and gas company PT Pertamina, needed US$2 billion, the equivalent of Rp18 trillion, to build a geothermal power plant with an installed capacity of 1,000 megawatts.
Surge in handset connectivity brings cheer, fearJAKARTA: Mr Syarief Maulana, who works for a non-governmental organisation, is constantly in the loop - he uses his BlackBerry smartphone to check his email, news websites and his Facebook account multiple times each day.
Jakarta. Since its release last week, analysts have lauded the 2011 state budget draft for cutting subsidies to make way for development spending, but some in the business community fear the cuts may be too much, too fast.Subsidies have been slashed 8.2 percent in the draft to Rp 184.
In mid-July, the Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd. (JCR) raised Indonesia’s rating to investment grade, which reflects growing confidence in the management of Southeast Asia’s largest economy, which has proved resilient.
INDONESIA'S growth spurt over the past year has turned it into a success story of sorts for the region and the flavour of the month for foreign and local investors.
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:The Itochu Corporation, a Japanese investor, plans to invest around US$2 billion or equal to Rp18 trillion to build a railway line in Central Kalimantan.The construction is expected to facilitate commodity transport.
Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA News) - Bali province`s handicraft and other non-oil/non-gas exports to China and Hong Kong have been increasing continuously reaching an average value of US$ 3.5 million per month or a total of US$ 17.1 million in the January-May period in 2010.
VIVAnews - Indonesia will in no time sign a bilateral free trade agreement with several other countries such as Australia, New Zealand, India, and Chile. The joint study group to the countries has been prepared.
Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands (ANTARA News) - Singapore will increase its cooperation with the Indonesian province of Riau Islands particularly the Bintan, Batam and Karimun free trade zones, Singapore minister Zainul Abidin Rasheed said.
Undeniably, we’re heading towards the globalization of world trade. At the same time countries face challenges other than globalization: regionalism and bilateralism.
Indonesia's Transportation Minister Freddy Numberi said on Wednesday that the government encourages private sector to take part in the construction of 14 new it planned to build starting next year. "Principally if the private sector wants to join, just go ahead, " Freddy said.
Businesses have welcomed a new government strategy to eliminate bureaucratic hurdles that have stunted the pace of infrastructure development.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government has begun preparing the stationing of fiscal officers at its overseas missions to ensure optimum collection of state revenue from taxable subjects or activities in foreign countries, a spokesman said.
Jakarta. Fresh on the heels of July’s unpopular electricity rate hikes, the government’s announcement on Monday of a fresh set of rises early next year immediately drew more anger from the business community.
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Political oppositions, whether official or conjunctural, has dismissed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's annual state address before the parliament to mark the independece day at the beginning of this week as unconvincing "camouflage" which failed to ...
JAKARTA, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's Investment Coordinating Board targeted to draw an investment of more than 200 trillion rupiah (about 22.3 billion U.S. dollars) next year, increasing 15 percent compared to this year, Bisnis Indonesia daily quoted an official as saying on Wednesday.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia`s next year`s export growth may reached only 8.3 percent, while this year`s growth has reached 12.2 percent.
JAKARTA, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Indonesia's President SusiloBambang Yudhoyono said in an annual state of the nation speechon Monday he is optimistic of reaching a target of as much as7.7 percent GDP growth by 2014.
Indonesia. Indonesia will see its dependence on imported steel fall and its exports rise with the completion of a new state-run steel mill in 2014, a Krakatau Steel official has said.
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:A South-African based energy company, Sasol Synfuels International, has not decided whether to invest in Indonesia, said the Oil and Natural Gas director-general, Evita Legowo, who is also the Liquid Coal Development Team chief, yesterday.
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The government has brought up plans to introduce new rate for land rate in the mining sector from a little bit above five cents to US$2, in the legislation of a new bill at the Finance Department.
Kendari, SE Sulawesi (ANTARA News) - South East Sulawesi Governor Nur Alam has told nickel mining investors to contribute US $1.5 to the regional government on every ton of nickel ore they export.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government should immediately find a solution to or a way-out of traffic congestion because it is now hampering investment, particularly in goods distribution, a chamber official said.
Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA News) - China ranked third after Australia and Japan as a source country of foreign tourists visiting Bali in the first half of 2010 with 98,258 tourists, up slightly from 97,930 a year earlier.
The government says it is preparing measures to reinvigorate the industry-based cluster program, which has faced serious obstacles including overlapping land titles and infrastructure bottlenecks.Industry Minister Mohamad S.
Historical, political and cultural binds between Indonesia and India prove too strong for challenges to shake years of good relations between the two countries, with the most recent incident involving Indians and Indonesians in Batam now only a distant memory.
Indonesian stocks are traded by Japanese investors every day, but one recent request from Tokyo was out of the ordinary. A big investor phoned up a local fund manager asking to buy $1bn in equities on the Jakarta stock exchange within just 20 days.
SINGAPORE -- Singapore investors are flocking to Indonesia with an eye to tapping its rich commodity reserves and fast-expanding consumer base.
Models present creations by Indonesian designer Ian AdrianThe fashion models lounged in the public hallway of a Jakarta retail mall in hot pants, batting false eyelashes and adjusting their hairdos.
JAKARTA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government plans to provide fiscal incentives for investment in five provinces in the sectors of agriculture, oil and gas, a paper reported here Friday.Industry Minister Mohamad S.
Indonesia’s state port firm will start building a new container terminal in Jakarta this year to cope with overflowing volumes at the main shipment hub in Indonesia’s capital as trade grows.The first phase of the 22tn rupiah ($2.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Industry Minister MS Hidayat hoped Indonesia`s exports could be increased to reduce any trade deficit."China indeed is now the preference for increasing exports of commodities. They now import more than exporting.
Indonesia. Indonesia on Wednesday launched a giant project to create a $5 billion agricultural estate spanning three districts in Papua.
Jakarta. The government is planning to pour Rp 22 trillion ($2.46 billion) into expanding the Tanjung Priok port in a bid to speed up the movement of goods.
Stock markets in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia have been “remarkably resilient” and investor interest may increase, drawn by Southeast Asia’s economic growth and an equities rally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said.Thailand’s economy is estimated to expand 8.
