Recovery underway, but more than just GDP matters Helmi Arman, Jakarta The third quarter national accounts show a slow but steady improvement in gross domestic product growth. However, to avoid overlooking important but somewhat obscure issues, analysis needs to be conducted over a longer time frame and expanding beyond GDP. Last week, the government released the quarterly national accounts for the third quarter of 2006.

When President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono attended the APEC Summit Meeting in Chile in late 2004, Craig Mundie, currently Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, happened to be the person to whom it fell to introduce the President to the forum. Since then, the two of them have bumped into each other a couple of times, including during President Yudhoyono's visit to Redmond in the U.S.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The House of Representatives (DPR) will formulate the draft bill on capital investment to provide legal embralla to foreign investors wishing to put their capital in Indonesia. "We actually want a profound discussion and approval of the draft bill in order to make it as one stop service.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The macro economy of Indonesia was predicted to grow by six percent in 2007 as the real sector had begun to move and the national banks have actively distributed credits to customers, an observer said. The expected growth rate of six percent is below the govenment`s target of 6.2 percent as there were a number of obstructing factors, an economic observer from the Standard Chartered Bank, Fauzi Ichsan, said here Tuesday.