Indonesia won't allow oil palm growers to cut primary forests for establishing plantations, State Minister for Environment Rachmat Witoelar said.Indonesia is trying to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, 75% of which result from deforestation.

The Finance Ministry's Directorate General of Taxation officially starts operating "one-stop-shop" tax offices Tuesday in line with the ministry's mission to "modernize" the service by next year.The new offices, called "Pratama Tax Service Offices", will offer taxpayers more convenience as they...

PT Bakrie & Brothers has finally received the green light from the government to continue work on its US$1.26 billion gas pipeline linking East Kalimantan and Central Java, despite earlier uncertainty over the gas supply for the project.

The country's fourth largest CDMA-based cellular operator, Mobile-8 Telecom, has completed the merger of three of its subsidiaries, PT Komunikasi Selular Indonesia (Komselindo), PT Metro Selular Nusantara (Metrosel) and PT Telekomindo Selular Raya (Telesera), to reduce operating costs.