Indonesian Political, Business & Finance News

Archive: 25 November 2008

6 articles found

Indonesia gets tough with foreign drug companies

After Bakrie, she must be the most embarrassing serving minister. Not content with excluding foreign doctors because they're too good and hence create unfair competition with clueless local specimens, she now wants to deny Indonesians decent drugs.

Indonesia gets tough with foreign drug companies

I wonder if there are any unique "drugs" in particular that Supari is targetting here.. she always has a separate agenda in her outbursts...

M`sian minister ascertaining Indonesia`s coal supply capability

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Malaysia`s Energy Minister Shariman bin Abu Mansur is visiting Jakarta to make sure Indonesia can meet his country`s need for coal.Speaking to the press after meeting Indonesian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro here Monday, Shariman said he was...

Special Tax Offices to Be Opened

TEMPO Interactive, Bukittinggi: The Tax Directorate General at the Finance Department is to open special service offices for high wealth individuals in Indonesia.The office is to maximize tax revenue from wealthy people.

Indonesia gets tough with foreign drug companies

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Foreign drug companies can quit Indonesia if they do not like new rules requiring them to have local production facilities, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said Monday.Rules introduced earlier this month are designed to encourage foreign companies to transfer...

Political Fight Threatens to Shred Rupiah

Market fears that Indonesia may impose capital controls to rescue the rupiah may prove to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, but only if the finance minister loses a power struggle with influential business leaders.