i've always wanted to know: what do they actually *do*? (besides issuing useless pieces of paper.)

The House of Representatives is weighing over the possible closure of upstream oil and gas regulator BPMigas and downstream regulator BPH Migas due to decaying administrative performance and failures to meet targets.

Tuesday, 22 January, 2008 | 16:18 WIBTEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said that the government will be alert to the United States’ recession threat against Indonesia’s exports and the economy.

Tuesday, 22 January, 2008 | 17:12 WIBTEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The government is planning to give subsidies to tofu and tempe producers amounting to Rp1,000 per kilogram for two months. The aid is for alleviating the burden of micro- and small-scaled business .

Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan (ANTARA News) - Coal mining company PT Adaro Indonesia plans to build a mine-mouth coal-fired power plant with a capacity of 60 MW in South Kalimantan province in cooperation with construction firm PT Makmur Sejahtera Wisesa.

Shijiazhuang (ANTARA News) - Two Indonesian pharmaceutical companies and a Chinese counterpart have signed an agreement here to ensure stability in antibiotics` supply and prices for the Indonesian market.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government needed to make every effort for an earlier achievement of self-sufficiency in soyabean originally planned in 2015 to 2011 with the domestic production of two million tons of the commodity, a minister has said.