Originally Posted By: KuKuKaChu the name alone would rank it below Baghdad! Please do not torment the tourists.

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 Originally Posted By: Piss Salon Feed the rich The DPR would have it no other way, they are the future of Indonesia..........

the name alone would rank it below Baghdad!

Eat the Rich.

Wonder how they ranked Malang? Anybody?

it seems they are trying to say, "at least we're better than Baghdad, so there!" No. 146 in the world, and we is so proud!

Feed the rich

True enough. They are divvying up the remaining forested areas in Papua using a complex formula of seats in the DPR plus money politics minus sexual scandals for concessions to convert to palm oil production areas. Of course the palm oil will be used for biofuels but that is beside the point.

Jakarta trails Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Manila in terms of the quality of living, but is ahead of Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, a survey of 215 cities worldwide revealed Monday. Trust the Post to get one over Vietnam. Bloody parochial journalism. Call a spade a spade. Jakarta has slipped four places in an annual survey of 215 cities worldwide, now placing a lowly 146 among the shittiest places to live.

I thought I felt a disturbance in the force..........

I would assume the legislators writing this legislation have made the proper deals and investments too match..........

Well that and if the prices rise faster than the wages of the lower income class then there is obviously less demand and more food for the wealthy............

They have abuses? What good is Dilli if this kind of thing continues after he has been here so long, must just be another overpaid drunk expat, replace him with a local............

Harry Su , Analyst Investing in Indonesia is strewn with ironies. Take the case of the Indonesian Regional Investment Forum (IRIF 2008), which took place at the end of May, and which was aimed at attracting between $6 billion and US$8 billion in investment. During the conference, the forum committee claimed that local governments had greatly improved their strategies to attract foreign investment. However, this view was not shared by some of the forum's participants.

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The World Bank (WB) predicts Indonesia will experience a shorter period of repercussions from the global food price crisis compared to other countries in Southeast Asia. Country director Joachim von Amsberg said Tuesday Indonesia was relatively better suited to weather pressure from the crisis thanks to increases in domestic production and price stabilization measures. "Many are understandably concerned about the negative impacts from high prices.

Expense rebates, or cost recovery claims, from oil and gas contractors to the government have long been the subject of debate over inefficiencies costing the state losses in potential revenue.

The government has issued a regulation setting benchmarks for electricity production costs in 13 regions to guide state power firm PLN in its pricing of electricity generated by renewable energy sources. Director general of electricity and energy utilization at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry J. Purwono said benchmarks would be calculated separately for each region based on production costs of their respective conventional fuel powered plants.

 Originally Posted By: KuKuKaChu "Wheat needs to be cultivated on dry lands with no water, so the most ideal climate for planting would be at the end of the monsoon season or in the early dry season, namely between April and September, particularly between June and August," she said. "Rain destroys wheat crops." huh?!! which is the reason, i guess, that australian wheat is planted on the first day of winter, when most rain falls ... no rain, no wheat. very simple.

Contrary to previous agricultural reports, certain regions in Indonesia may be ideal for wheat production. Indonesia has at least 1.5 million hectares of land located in a cool and dry region that may allow wheat cultivation. "The high altitude lands in Nusa Tenggara Timur, with its seasonal dry winds from Australia, are the most ideal for wheat production," said Risda Yulita, a expert from the Agricultural Ministry, on Tuesday.

Indonesia has changed in the past decade and so must our attitudes, according to Andrew MacIntyre from the ANU and Douglas Ramage from the Asia Foundation writing in The Age (27 May). Duncan Graham has a different take: ……………………………………………………………………………… Indonesia is changing – but MacIntyre and Ramage are jumping the gun by saying the country is a stable democracy.

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Jakarta trails Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Manila in terms of the quality of living, but is ahead of Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, a survey of 215 cities worldwide revealed Monday. The Quality of Living survey, conducted by global consulting firm Mercer, ranked each city on a points system. Cities were compared to New York City, with an index score of 100.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Despite a persistent steep rise in global crude oil and food prices, the Indonesian economy is still performing better than the rest of the world, an economist said. "The Indonesian government can actually manage the good condition by means of financial policies.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government is preparing the adoption of a special policy on investments in the food sector to boost production of such important staples as rice, corn, soybean and cassava, a senior economic official said.