Bandung, West Java (ANTARA News) – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked arms industry PT Pindad to produce a new variety of the 3/4-ton-4×4-type tactical vehicle to meet the needs of the TNI (military) and police. “The new tactical vehicle type will be needed. I have asked that Pindad present a prototype within the next [...]
Bunaken sea (ANTARA/Basrul Haq) by Otniel Tamindael Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Known as “The Land of Smiling People”, rich in culture, culinary delights, and beautiful landscapes, North Sulawesi, its provincial capital of Manado in particular, is poised to host an ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF-2012). To most of the would-be participants of ATF-2012, Manado is probably [...]
Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Foreign demand for skilled Indonesian labor in the services sector at the Indonesian Trade Expo (TEI) 2011 showed a 66-percent increase compared with the figure recorded at TEI 2010, a senior trade official said. “Demand for Indonesian service sector workers rose 66 percent at this year`s expo. This means the user [...]
Indonesia is ready to host this year’s mega sporting event, the 26th Southeast Asian Games – or SEA GAMES – which will be held in two host cities: Palembang, capital of South Sumatra and Jakarta, through 11 consecutive days, from November 11th to 22nd, 2011. This also marks the fourth time that Indonesia hosts the [...]
A version of the traditional Srimpi court dance being performed in front of a Javanese gamelan orchestra. (Photo courtesy of D. Christyadi and Michi Tomioka) Sylviana Hamdani, Jakarta Globe Four female dancers dressed in green kebaya blouses and batik sarongs sat cross-legged on the tiled floor of the Omah Btari Sri performance hall in South [...]
Coal produced by Berau Coal being loaded onto a ship in East Kalimantan last year. Moody’s says the future is bright for Indonesia’s coal mining industry, with demand rising in China and India. (Reuters Photo/Yusuf Ahmad) Francezka Nangoy, Jakarta Globe Indonesia’s coal mining industry looks set to grow despite an uncertain global economic outlook, according to [...]
Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Indonesia has been elected a member of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc) to represent Asia for the period 2002 to 2014, according to a report from the UN Headquarters in New York. Indonesia won the most votes from countries in the Asia region in a secret selection process [...]
Shirley Christie, Jakarta Globe Nouriel Roubini, the American economist labeled “Dr. Doom” for his tendency to make dire predictions, on Monday took a sunnier stance toward Indonesia, saying its economy was moving on the right track. “Indonesia is among the developing nations whose economies are growing at the fastest pace in the world,” said Roubini, [...]
London (ANTARA News) – At the initiative of Indonesia and Switzerland the 10th Conference of Parties (COP-10) broke a 16-year deadlock over the enforcement of Ban Amendment to Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal, an Indonesian diplomat said. Indonesian Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva [...]
The cultural expressions of Papua’s renowned Asmat Tribe will be the highlight of Indonesia’s most eastern island as the Asmat Cultural Festival is scheduled to take place at the Yos Sudarso Field, Asmat District on 20 to 25 October 2011. This year marks the 26th edition of the Asmat Cultural Festival since it was first [...]
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