Dump every other regulation, law or decree and return to the spirit of the 1967 Investment Law!

The Indonesian unit of Hong Kong-based telecommunications giant Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd. announced Wednesday the successful completion of the company's 2G and 3G user trials.The company said that the completion of the trials, with threshold levels defined for all key network...

Publicly listed Bakrie Telecom (BTEL), a subsidiary of Bakrie and Brothers, reported net revenues Wednesday of Rp 607.9 billion (US$67.7 million) for 2006, a 149.4 percent increase from Rp 243.7 billion in 2005.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Cellular telephone operator PT Mobile-8 (FREN) will form a merger with its subsidiaries PT Metro Selular Nusantara (Metrosel), PT Komunikasi Selular Indonesia (Komselindo) and PT Telekomindo Selular Raya (Telesera), a report said.

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Suwito Ardiyanto, Director General of Manpower Monitoring Development at the Manpower and Transmigration Department, has said that out of the 95.6 million workers in Indonesia, only 28, 7999,207 are registered as members of the Manpower Social Security (Jamsostek)...

I am reminded once again of S.P. Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations". Even though he doesn't consider Indonesia or SEAsia a 'civilization' -- more an offshoot of Chinese or Arab -- it still applies. In the 80s and 90s, many American "nationalists" were going ballistic over the Japanese investing...

Major mining companies issued a `white paper' Tuesday, calling on the government to retain the Contract of Work (CoW) system under the proposed new mining law if it wanted to avoid creating a major impediment to new investment.