Indonesian Political, Business & Finance News

Archive: 10 March 2007

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Norwegian firm to invest $300m in hydro projects

A Norwegian energy firm, KF Gruppen (KFG), plans to invest US$300 million on the building of two hydro power plants in South Sulawesi over the next three years. The two plants will have a total capacity of 133 megawatts.

HSBC opens branch in Mangga Dua

JAKARTA: London-based bank HSBC opened its 14th Indonesian branch in Mangga Dua, Central Jakarta, on Thursday to meet the needs of the company's customers in the area, one of the capital's major shopping centers."We have a big business community in the area.

Finance Ministry eyes incentives to support biofuel development

The Finance Ministry is preparing a package of incentives to support the government's ambitious program to produce 200,000 barrels of biofuel a day by 2010, a senior official says.Unggul Priyanto, the director for energy resources development at the Agency for the Assessment and Application of...

Investment bill delayed again in House

The passage of the investment bill is set to miss the March 13 deadline as the government and House of Representatives still find themselves at odds over the issue of incentives for investors."There is one final chapter that we haven't agreed upon, but it is the one with the most difficulties --...

Government Worried about the Fall in Investors' Perception

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The government is making serious efforts to see that natural disasters and transportation accidents do not affect investors and tourists' to visit and invest in Indonesia.According to Coordinating Minister for the Economy Boediono, safety has been a factor that investors...