The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Indonesia will launch the new branding “Wonderful Indonesia” as part of its tourism campaign to attract up to 7.7 million foreign tourists next year. Speaking at a yearend briefing in Jakarta Thursday, Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik said that with the new campaign brand, which would replace the previous “Visit [...]
Bogor, West Java (ANTARA News) – Indonesia is expecting to become one of the world`s ten biggest economies in 2025 with its gross domestic product expected to reach US$3.7 to 4.7 trillion and the per capita income at US$12,000. The country`s chief economic minister, Hatta Rajasa, said on the sidelines of a limited cabinet meeting [...]
Vienna (ANTARA News) – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) considers Indonesia as well as Jordan and Vietnam as countries ready to develop nuclear energy for power generation , an Indonesian diplomat said. “The IAEA`s support is additional political motivation for Indonesia to build a nuclear power plant,” Indonesian Ambassador to Austria I Gusti Agung [...]
Vicki Febrianto Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Indonesian diplomacy is spreading its wings qualitatively whereas the government only has a limited number of diplomats for assignment to overseas posts. The Foreign Affairs Ministry currently oversees a total of 1,800 diplomats and about two thirds of them are serving in overseas posts, according to Deputy Foreign Minister [...]
Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Investments in the mineral and coal mining sector in 2010 reached US$2.282 billion, according to the ministry of energy and mineral resources. The ministry`s director general of minerals and coal, Bambang Setiawan, said here on Wednesday the realization was above the target set at US$2.119 billion.”General mining investments show a good [...]
Ende, East Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA News) – Vice President Boediono is to cast his vote for the Komodo National Park, the habitat of the world`s biggest lizard, the Komodo, to have it recognized as one of the Seven World Wonders. Boediono is scheduled to cast his vote in Labuan Bajo, NTT, on Wednesday, according to [...]
DENPASAR, KOMPAS.com The Cultural and Tourism Resources Agency (BSDKP) of the Culture and Tourism Ministry said three Indonesian cultural heritages will be forwarded to Unesco in 2011 for nomination as world cultural heritages. “The three Indonesian cultural heritages are the Bali traditional dance, Noken and the Beautiful Indonesia in Miniature (TMII),” Director for Research and [...]
The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia will be closed on 24 December 2010 in the observance of Christmas Day.
I Wayan Juniarta, The Jakarta Post, Ubud The founder of Neka Art Museum (NAM), Pande Wayan Suteja Neka, once said that he wanted the museum to be more than just a magnificent repository of treasured heritage. He wanted the museum to be a temple. Little did he know that his vision would one day be [...]
Jakarta (ANTARA News) – The government has projected the national industry will grow by 5.2 percent to 6.1 percent next year which will rely on six groups of priority industries. “The efforts made by the government in the previous years will hopefully boost the industrial sector,” Industry Minister MS Hidayat said at a year-end press [...]
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