just watch them stuff this up ...

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia has introduced iris scans to allow registered passengers to pass through airport immigration in seconds, officials said. Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Thursday became the first in Asia to use the technology, which is already being used or tested at some US and European airports, the company which launched the system said.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - AGB Energy of South Korea is to invest Rp1 trln to build an integrated biofuel business, from plantation to a processing plant, under an agreement that it will supply its biofuel output to PT PLN, AGB president Kim Tae Sik said. He said the firm has already planted jatropha (castor oil) over an area of 20 hectares in North Maluku province and aims to have up to 300,000 hectares planted to the crop in the next few years.

With a number of sectors having contracted in 2006, the country's industrial sector is set to grow by a less-than-expected 5 percent this year, almost 1 percent lower than last year's disappointing growth of 5.9 percent. The processed timber and miscellaneous timber products industry is expected to shrink by 2 percent this year, while the cement and non-metal mineral products sector is forecast to contract by 1.5 percent.

With Indonesia needing to build 54 new expressway sections totaling 1,835 kilometers to enable high economic growth to take off, the Public Works Ministry is seeking ways to speed up highway construction. "Things will need to be accelerated if we want to meet the targets within a reasonable timeframe," Public Works Minister Djoko Kirmanto said Thursday, while admitting that the pace of expressway construction had been unacceptably slow over the years.

Indonesia needs to create an "island of integrity" as part of efforts to end the bureaucratic reform stalemate, a discussion here heard. Roy Salomo of the University of Indonesia says South Korea used this method to remodel its bureaucracy with some success. "Good governance is only jargon in Indonesia. It is being reduced to a mere political commodity, perhaps because of the practice of corruption," Salomo said.