Higher food prices are inevitable due to an energy shift from fossil fuels to bioenergy, finance management professor Wibisono Hardjoparnoto said Wednesday."Bioenergy efforts will surely touch food issues such as in the case where corn is being used as biofuel," he said.

An ambitious plan aiming to roll out "cheap and meaningful" broadband to 20 percent of the Indonesian population by 2012 is gearing up in Jakarta, with strong support from the government and corporate sectors.

There are promising signs that a long-awaited reformation of the Indonesian mining industry is taking place. The government now is seriously dealing with several issues that have starved the mining industry for 10 years.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla said that government officials must now have more guts to commit corruption."Government officials must now have six times the usual guts to commit corruption," the vice president said here on Tuesday.