Novia D. Rulistia, The Jakarta Post, JakartaState-owned plantation firms have jointly set up a consortium for the construction of a biodiesel plant aimed at supporting the government program to develop alternative energy resources.

While the country's unemployment rate remains high, there is a tendency among local companies to recruit fresh graduates over the longer-term unemployed who mainly prefer to open their own small businesses, the Central Statistic Agency (BPS) says."Every year, there are around 2.

The government, in a bid to boost foreign trade, has proposed the establishment of an agency to provide financing, underwriting and insurance for exporters, Asia Pulse reported Monday (28/1/08). The agency, to be called the Indonesian Exports Financing Agency (LPEI), will replace Bank Ekspor...

Indonesia's trade surplus surged to $4.06 billion in December from $2.27 billion the previous month on strong exports, but inflation jumped in January to its highest level for two years, the Central Statistics Agency said Friday (1/2/08). Exports rose to a record $10.86 billion from $9.

The government is finalizing a 'grand design' for Indonesia’s regional subdivisions that should be completed this year, Home Affairs Ministry spokesman Saut Situmorang said on Thursday (31/1/08). The grand design, said Situmorang, would determine the ideal number of provinces and regencies for...

JAKARTA (JP): The government has issued a new progressive tax regulation on crude palm oil (CPO) and its derivative products, implementing three main benchmarks based on the Rotterdam commodity market prices on CPO.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government on Monday issued a regulation on the reduction of interconnection tariffs which is expected to lower retail telecommunication rates."Interconnection tariffs are one of the three price components in retail telecommunication rates.