The International Conference on Oil Palm and the Environment (ICOPE) kicked off Thursday at Nusa Dua, Bali, aimed at highlighting environmental sustainability in the palm oil industry.The two-day event is being sponsored by the PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology (SMART) research institute,...

Publicly listed property developer PT Bakrieland Development (Bakrieland) is confident about achieving strong full-year profits after posting a 168 percent rise in net profit in the first nine months compared with a year earlier.President director Hiramsyah S.

The economy will remain resilient next year despite tough challenges ahead stemming from a predicted slowdown in the global economy as a result of high oil prices and the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, a World Bank report says."We are projecting 6.

Indonesia improved its share of world trade last year thanks largely to a surge in the prices of the country's main commodities, according to the latest report from the World Trade Organization (WTO).The country's share of total global exports increased to 0.9 percent from 0.

JAKARTA (AP): Indonesia's economy expanded a faster-than-expected 6.5 percent in the third quarter from a year ago, the government said Thursday, its strongest quarter of growth since the Asian financial crisis 10 years ago.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia's central bank sees the weakening of the rupiah currency as temporary and caused by external factors as the country's economic indicators are positive, a Bank Indonesia deputy governor said on Friday.

Kuala Lumpur (ANTARA News) - Palm oil reserves in Indonesia, the world's top producer, are at their lowest in years on surging overseas sales, raising concerns prices will rise further, a senior government official said on Thursday.

Twelve information and communications technology (ICT) firms from Taiwan are looking for local agents to sell and distribute their products in Indonesia."We have met a number of potential distributors that hopefully will team up with us, besides the one we already have," FSP Technology's sales...

JAKARTA (JP): Gorontalo's bureaucratic and administrative staff receive up to 400 percent of their basic salary in incentives -- as long asthey meet or surpass performance targets, Governor Fadel Muhammad said.

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Investors from Indonesia are still dominating property ownership in Singapore where Indonesians own around 22 percent of foreign property.Based on data from the Singapore' Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and Savills Research Consultancy, during the first semester of...

TEMPO Interactive, Kuta: Information and Communication Minister M. Nuh has promised that Internet access will be ready to be enjoyed by all the general public by the first quarter of 2009 at the latest so that education can be accessed regardless of limitations.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has received tens of thousands of reports of suspected corruption since 2003 but has resolved just a tiny fraction of them, an official said Wednesday.

Pekanbaru (ANTARA News) - Greenpeace activists on Thursday afternoon blocked the path of a tanker loaded with crude palm oil (CPO) in the Dumai waters, Riau, on its way to an export destination.The tanker, MT Westama, loaded with 30,000 tons of CPO, was leaving Dumai port when it was intercepted by...

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian economy is expected to grow by 6.4 percent in 2008 from an estimated 6.3 percent this year, supported by higher investment and vibrant domestic demand, the World Bank said Thursday.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has urged Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono and governors to diversify food."The diversification is aimed at reducing Indonesia`s dependence on rice as a source of carbohydrate," the president said when awarding letters of appreciation...

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Economic Coordinating Ministry senior adviser M Ikhsan predicted that Indonesia would no longer be a net oil importer in 2008 because of increased oil production capacity and economization of domestic fuel oil.