Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said his office would conduct orderliness operation against foreign workers illegally working in the country. “All foreign workers in Indonesia must be legal, meet criteria and laws. In view of that we will conduct an orderliness operation against those working illegally,” he said after inspecting the Foreign Workers Service [...]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will finance the construction of the Lahendong IV geothermal power plant in Tomohon, North Sulawesi, to meet local power shortages. “We’ve agreed to provide a loan of US$40 million, which is 90 percent of the total construction cost of the geothermal power plant. Its construction will start next year and [...]
The Ministry of Forestry will reduce the number of hotspots by 20 percent per year in the next five years. Head of the forestry information center of the forestry ministry Mashyud said in Jakarta Monday the project is one of the agendas of the new Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan for the next five years. “The [...]
“TOWARDS HARMONY AMONG CIVILIZATIONS” SPEECH BY DR. SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Sunday night Indonesia will never leave ASEAN despite its growing role in the Group of 20 rich and developing nations (G20). “Admittedly, I have heard some worries that since Indonesia has a new club, new home, namely G20, it will no longer make ASEAN its main home,” the president [...]
PT Merpati Nusantara Airlines will up to 2010 procure 22 aircraft and increase the number of its flight routes in the country, its president director said. “The procurement of the airplanes will be conducted through a leasing system,” Merpati President Director Bambang Bhakti said at the Ministry of State Enterprises (BUMN)`s office here on Thursday [...]
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has targeted the domestic economy to grow by seven percent at the end of his second five-year term in office. “In the next five years we certainly want to increase our economic growth. For example, we want to achieve an economic growth of 7 percent or more in 2014 on assumption [...]
The Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) is deploying five warships and one reconnaissance plane to protect the Natuna waters from fish thefts, a spokesman said. “The five warships and reconnaissance plane have conducted routine patrols in the Natuna waters as part of efforts to reduce the number of fish thefts,” Commander of the Main Naval Base [...]
More than 230 million citizens can hope for increased “prosperity, democracy and justice”, according to Indonesia’s first President to be directly elected, and also the first to be re-elected. Following Tuesday’s inauguration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Boediono, Yudhoyono said that his priority for the next five years, which will be his [...]
The government has set itself the target of increasing investment in the energy and mineral resources (ESDM) sectors by 56 percent from US$18 billion this year to US$28.063 billion in 2010, a cabinet minister said. ESDM Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said here on Friday that the planned investment in 2010 consisted of US$15.415 billion on oil [...]
