The Culture and Tourism Ministry has selected 10 tourist destinations across the archipelago to be promoted and developed this year. Tourism development director general Firmansyah Rahim said the places were chosen from 22 that were short-listed previously for their potential to attract visitors. “We will arrange local and international accesses to the 10 destinations,” Firmansyah [...]
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to officially open the 11th Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum at Bali International Convention Center here Wednesday. The meeting`s theme is “Environment in the Multilateral System” and it will discuss three topics, namely “International Environmental Governance (IEG) and sustainable development”, “The Green Economy” and [...]
Indonesia will offer at least US$5 billion of infrastructure projects for financing in a high-profile public-private partnerships (PPP) conference in Jakarta in April, a senior government official says. “We estimate $5 billion [of projects] can be offered during the four-day conference,” Bastary Pandji Indra, director of PPPs at the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), said [...]
lResearch conducted by the Maritime Affairs and Fishery Ministry shows that Indonesia’s seas can absorb roughly 0.3 gigatons of carbon dioxide each year (300 million metric tons), far more than previous estimates of up to 40 million tons. Officials, however, declined to comment on whether Indonesia would promote the ocean as alternative resource in efforts [...]
The World Bank has since 1967 financed 280 development programs worth more than US$25 billion in Indonesia, a Finance Ministry official said. The World Bank had played a great role in supporting the development of infrastructure projects in Indonesia to spur economic growth and reduce poverty and unemployment, Secretary General of the Finance Ministry Mulia [...]
Although most of the funding for the second 10,000 megawatt (MW) electricity crash program will be covered from bank loans, state power firm PT PLN needs to contribute up to US$1.5 billion, or about 25 percent from its own funds. PLN, which will be responsible for half of the power plants under the program, will [...]
Indonesia supports Iran’s right to develop its nuclear program for peaceful purposes but asks the Islamic republic to uphold the commitment to nuclear non-proli-feration. “Commitment to nuclear non-proliferation and the right to obtain nuclear power for peaceful purposes go hand in hand. You cannot take one and exclude the other. They are integrated responsibilities and [...]
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) has called on the Indonesian people to unite, pray and work to realize the national ideals. The president made the appeal during a `zikir` (chanting in praise of Allah) event organized at the National Monument (Monas) here on Saturday morning. Hundreds of people attended the event despite a drizzle. “We [...]
Children from various ethnic backgrounds happily shouted or knocked on doors of houses of Indonesian-Chinese around their neighborhoods asking for angpao distributed during Imlek Chinese New Year. Others played in the street, performing a modified barongsai lion dance in various forms while their parents either sold snacks and accessories typical to Imlek or visited their [...]
Indonesia’s textile and garment trade balance in 2009 had been a surplus of 5.1 billion US dollars, a 1.10 pct increase compared to the equally surplus of 5 billion US dollars in 2008. “Indonesia’s textile and garments are still leading national non oil export commodities although competition on the international market is very tight,” Trade [...]
