Britain’s Applied Energy Services (AES) plans to build 20 units of biomass power plants with a total investment of $400 million, Asia Pulse reported Friday (14/12/07). Each unit will have a generating capacity of 10 to 15 MW, president and chief executive officer of AES Paul Hanrahan said.

Sales of electronic goods in Indonesia are predicted to reach Rp14.7 trillion ($1.63 billion) in value or an increase of 21% from last year's Rp12 trillion, Antara reported Monday (10/12/07). Secretary general of the Electronic Marketer Club Handojo Soetanto said in the first 10 months of this year...

Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd said it will accelerate the rollout of its mobile network in Indonesia with the assistance of PT Excelcomindo Pratama, XFN-ASIA reported Thursday (13/12/07).

Marubeni Corp, Japan's fifth-largest trading company, plans to launch five to 10 carbon credit projects in Indonesia next year, reaping 3 million credits by 2012, a company source said on Friday (14/12/07), Reuters reported.

The government is planning to provide incentives to investors wishing to use environment-friendly technology, raw materials, energy and production process, an investment official said, Asia Pulse reported Tuesday (11/12/07).

Indonesian consumers last month were more confident about their income prospects over the next six months than they were a month earlier, the results of a Bank Indonesia survey issued Monday (10/12/07) showed, Dow Jones Newswires reported. The central bank's Consumer Confidence Index rose 1.