BPS: Economic Census Requires Rp400 Billion Friday, 12 May, 2006 | 16:03 WIB TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The Central Statistics Bureau (BPS) will begin the economic census 2006 on Monday. A Rp400 billion fund is estimated for this. According to the Deputy of Economic Statistics Department at BPS, R. Pietojo, yesterday, the funds will be taken from the list of subject matter of the BPS budget implementation.

i'm getting a lot of enqiries at the moment relating to biofuels ... people wanting to set up plantations, oil processing plants, and the like ... but i'm not sure the economics are there yet: subsidised deisel is Rp4300 a litre, CPO is Rp6500 on the world market ... it doesn't add up, at least not yet.

Hmm good prospect of business, I will get more money coz I am living in the jungle of palm oil

May 12 11:20 Indonesia's state firms start using biodiesel fuel Jakarta (ANTARA News) - A number of major state companies have reportedly agreed to use biodiesel to substitute oil fuel. Bisnis Indonesia daily reported that electricity company PLN, plantation company PT PN VII and railway company PT Kereta API, signed an agreement Wednesday with the Technology Application Agency (BPPT) to use biodiesel as fuel.

Govt told not to meddle in Cemex, Rajawali affair The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The government's reluctance to approve Mexican cement giant Cemex SA's sale of its stake in PT Semen Gresik to Rajawali Group has drawn criticism for possibly sabotaging a solution to the embarrassing four-year-old saga of Cemex's involvement in Indonesia.

May 12 01:27 RI should increase investment in pharmaceutical sector: minister Nusa Dua, Bali (ANTARA News) - Industry Minister Fahmi Idris said Indonesia must increase investment in the pharmaceutical sector to obtain cheap medical drugs. "The polcy to throw the country wide open to foreign investment should eventually enable the people to obtain medicines at fair prices," said Fahmi after speaking in a business forum of the group of eight developing countries (D-8) summit here on Thursday.