Indonesia doesn't deserve all the credit. China, Malaysia, Singapore and the West, including the World Bank, all play a valued role. It's an all round team effort that makes you proud to be human.

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Indonesia has broken the record of the Guinness Book of World Record as the fastest destroyer of forests in the world and therefore will be listed in the 2008 Guinness Book. According to Hapsoro, the Southeast Asian Green Peace's forest campaigner, as many as 72 percent of Indonesia's genuine forests have vanished and half of the remaining forests are still in danger.

Indonesia Investment Update 2007 Wednesday, May 9, 2007   Diamond Room 1 Nikko Hotel – Jakarta.     BACKGROUND The Indonesia parliament has just enacted the new Investment Law at March 29, 2007.   This new law is to amend the old one of the Law No. 1 of 1967 regarding The Foreign Direct Investment and Law No. 6 of 1968 regarding The Domestic Direct Investment as amended recently by Law No. 12 of 1970.

what's the going rate of an Indonesian CDM consultant .... $800 USD per month. Given the market is worth US$10 billion why don't companies here pay a lot more money to get better quality people??? and FYI the number of Indonesian people with experience in this area can be written on the back of a postage stamp!

Global carbon trading, one of the mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gasses under the Kyoto Protocol, has been increasing over time, and is today worth tens of billions of dollars. But Indonesia has been far left behind the rest of the pack.

Indonesia is on the right track to once again becoming one of Asia's fastest growing economies, but still has a lot to do if it wants to rival China and India, say analysts from UBS AG. According to UBS, Indonesia should promote exports and investment based on its comparative advantages in natural resources, complementing the needs of Chinese and Indian industry, while at the same time gradually building up its own industrial base.

Mobile phone operator PT Mobile-8 has announced an increase of 14 percent in its unaudited net profit to Rp 16.9 billion (US$1.8 million) in the first quarter on the back of an increased subscriber base. The number of Mobile-8 subscribers surged by 101.1 percent to 2.02 million in the January-March period from 1 million in the same period last year, a media statement from the company said Wednesday.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Bank Indonesia (BI) Governor Burhanuddin Abdullah said here on Wednesday the bank would strive to make the exchange rate of the country`s currency stable at around Rp9,000 against the US dollar in support of the real sector. "We will try to make it stable meaning we will maintain its volatility. In case a fluctuation happens it will remain within a measured range. It is possible for the rupiah to reach close to Rp9,000," he said.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia plans to develop 1.5 hectares of oil palm plantations until 2010 to increase production to 18 million tons over the next three years, an industry spokesperson said. The chief of the Indonesian Palm Oil Commission (KMSI), Rosediana Suharto, said here on Wednesday starting this year expansion would begin in stages reaching 1.5 million hectares until 2010 consisting of 1.375 million hectares of new plantations and 125,000 hectares of replanted plantations.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Tim Indonesia Bangkit (TIB), a private economic research group, has questioned the claims of success made by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono`s economic team. "There is a tendency on the part of the government`s economic team to claim successes in improving the national economy," Imam Sugema, a TIB economic observer, said here Wednesday.