Jakarta Globe, Arientha Primanita President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday that state enterprises should play a more active role in boosting the country’s economic growth. “We have to start with a clear objective and goal. Our target should not be anything other than that we want state enterprises that can really become an important [...]
Jimmy Hitipeuw UNITED NATIONS, KOMPAS.com – Indonesia on Monday formalized ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty at the United Nations and its foreign minister called on eight key holdout nations to take a “calculated risk” and sign on. Indonesia is the 157th country to adopt the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) but eight more [...]
Ban Ki Moon (source: www.un.org) Jakarta Globe, Arientha Primanita Indonesia next month for an international defense meet and to visit the new peacekeeping center in West Java. Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro told reporters at the president’s office on Friday that Ban was scheduled to open and deliver the keynote speech at the Jakarta International Defense [...]
Jakarta (ANTARA News) – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed a regulation that 45 percent of Kalimantan island must be used for biodiversity conservation and tropical rainforest vegetation reserves to make the island the world`s lungs, a report said. Under the presidential regulation signed on January 5, 2012, the government would take a number of [...]
Novan Iman Santosa and Nani Afrida, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Indonesia will start modernizing its military hardware after a decade of internal reform riding on the back of an improving economy, Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro told repoters Monday. “The Indonesian Military has been involved in internal reforms, such as disengagement from political and business activities,” [...]
The latest type of N-219 that will soon be produced by PDI Jimmy Hitipeuw BANDUNG, KOMPAS.com – PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) will soon start producing the latest type of N-219, which is a STOL (short-take off and landing) plane. This year PTDI will build two prototypes for test flying and status tests on land, Technology [...]
State Enterprises Minister, Dahlan Iskan BALIKPAPAN, KOMPAS.com – The government plans to invest Rp9 trillion to create new rice fields in East Kalimantan to increase production as of 2012, State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan said. “If the atmosphere is not conducive or the investment is disrupted we will leave,” he said before East Kalimantan Governor [...]
Ronna Nirmala | The Jakarta Globe Reflecting on the year just passed, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa on Wednesday noted that Indonesia opened diplomatic relations with nine countries in 2011. The new relations nearly halved the list of 21 countries with which Indonesia had no diplomatic ties when the year began. “The nine countries are Mauritania, [...]
The Jakarta Post An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale rocked Gorontalo at 8 a.m. on Thursday, according to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG). Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the epicenter of the quake was 94 kilometers southwest of Gorontalo at a depth of 43 kilometers. “The quake did not trigger [...]
Jakarta Globe-Francezka Nangoy President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono opened the year’s trading at the stock exchange on Monday, and called on the business community to take advantage of the investment-grade status recently given to the country. Yudhoyono said that with the new status accorded to Indonesia by Fitch, an international rating agency, money costs and loans [...]
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