The fall of rupiah & bad timing of statements Rupiah lost its value against greenback by almost 8% in just one week, from 8,700 to 9,400, partly due to bad timing of statements delivered by high-level government officers. Initially rupiah dropped on bad sentiment over stock market and increasing oil price. Early this week the newly appointed director general for tax Darmin Nasution told parliament members that it would be difficult to collect tax at the amount set in the 2006 budget.

Japan understands RI`s LNG export policy, says VP Tokyo (ANTARA News) - Japan understands Indonesia`s position that in the future it will export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Japan only if there is a production surplus, Vice President Jusuf Kalla said here on Wednesday. "They want us to give certainty on whether or not we will continue supplying them with LNG," he told Indonesian journalisits covering his visit to Japan.

PLN begins rotating electricity outages The Jakarta Post, Jakarta State-owned electricity company PT PLN began to cut its power supply from the Java-Bali power grid system Tuesday after appealing to household and industrial consumers to limit usage during peak hours. The drop in supply is due to malfunctions in several power plants that are expected to take at least two weeks to repair. "At 8 a.m., we had to cut our electricity supply by 240 megawatts (MW) and at 2 p.m.

ipso facto, this means that 13% of all software sold/used in indonesia is legal. HA! i find that hard to believe. more like 4-5%, at the most!

Rate of Software Piracy in Indonesia Reaches 87 Percent Wednesday, 24 May, 2006 | 20:30 WIB TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The rate of software piracy in Indonesia is still high, standing at 87 percent, and this position has not changed for two years. Farouk Cader, the representative of Business Software Alliance (BSA) for Indonesia, said that out of three software programs installed in a computer, more than one is illegal.