TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been asked to take over oil and natural gas management so that national oil production does not sharply decrease. The government has also been asked to evaluate and to audit the Upstream Oil and Gas Executive Body (BP Migas) and the...

A minister says the government will help the regions secure the more expeditious approval of their budgets from their local councils, and is devising policies to ensure that development funds are actually spent on time, rather then being parked in central bank treasury bills.

The House of Representatives is set to miss its target of passing the much-awaited mining bill by March 2007 as the committee handling it has only managed to discuss 84 of the total of 414 articles listed in the draft.

JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Palm Oil Businessmen Association (Gapki) has feared that new rule on the use of tankers with double-wall holds would raise the palm oil transportation tariffs by 20 percent.