Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA News) - Bali earned a total of US$71.8 million from aquatic product exports during 2007, an increase by 37 percent from US$52.4 million in 2006, according to a local official.The increase was thank to good quality of the aquatic products which had satisfied foreign buyers, Ni...

Denpasar (ANTARA News) - Bali Island received 154,000 foreign tourists in January 2008, an increase by 29.88 percent from 107,800 in January 2007."On average, Bali is visited by around 5,135 foreign tourists daily, an improvement compared to the days before the 2002 and 2005 bombings," head of the...

Jambi (ANTARA News) - Jambi province is in need of domestic and foreign investors to develop its downstream industries which use raw materials from plantation commodities like oil palm and rubber, a local official said.

Bintan, Riau Islands (ANTARA News) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla inaugurated Friday five industrial projects worth Rp178 billion in the Bintan free-trade and free-port zone in Bintan district, Riau Islands.

JAKARTA (JP): The government confirmed Friday a plan to revise the economic growth target down from the 6.8 percent stated in the 2008 state budget amid soaring global prices for oil and staple food commodities.

Semarang, Central Java (ANTARA News) - Communications and Information Minister Mohammad Nuh said that the government has a high respect of the independence of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS)."The government does not wish and will not intervene what the BPS is doing.