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Archive: 10 September 2008

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Starbucks Indonesia Continues to Grow

Originally Posted By: KuKuKaChuOriginally Posted By: v8daveOriginally Posted By: KuKuKaChuyep, i'll second that. good coffee. such a damn pity, however, that i have to go to the ends of the earth (aka south jakarta) to buy it. Send one of your academic qualified staff to get it... good thinking, 99.

Starbucks Indonesia Continues to Grow

Originally Posted By: v8daveOriginally Posted By: KuKuKaChuyep, i'll second that. good coffee. such a damn pity, however, that i have to go to the ends of the earth (aka south jakarta) to buy it. Send one of your academic qualified staff to get it... good thinking, 99.

Starbucks Indonesia Continues to Grow

Originally Posted By: KuKuKaChuyep, i'll second that. good coffee. such a damn pity, however, that i have to go to the ends of the earth (aka south jakarta) to buy it. Send one of your academic qualified staff to get it...

Starbucks Indonesia Continues to Grow

yep, i'll second that. good coffee. such a damn pity, however, that i have to go to the ends of the earth (aka south jakarta) to buy it.

Starbucks Indonesia Continues to Grow

PC, Bob, check out the coffee from Merdeka (http://www.merdekacoffee.com) which you can get from the the Periplus Bookshops (I get it from the one next to Hero in Kemang)I buy the Java Estate coffee which is strong but a good tasting coffee.

Starbucks Indonesia Continues to Grow

Originally Posted By: Polisi CepekI don't like starbucks on principle - creepy cookie-cutter stores, big american company, etc. The price is absurd, but taste-wise are there better options in Indonesia? Beng. Solo is cheap, but really much worse than starbucks.

Starbucks Indonesia Continues to Grow

I don't like starbucks on principle - creepy cookie-cutter stores, big american company, etc. The price is absurd, but taste-wise are there better options in Indonesia? Beng. Solo is cheap, but really much worse than starbucks.

Bali: Officials looking to crackdown on residence abuse

I'm baffled, I thought having a kitas was what they wanted foreigners to do. Kuku?

Tax proceeds leap 46 percent on higher taxpayer compliancy

Aditya Suharmoko, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Improved tax collection by extending the tax base and modernizing the tax system have boosted tax proceeds by 46 percent during the first eight months of this year, Finance Ministry's director general of taxation Darmin Nasution says.

Foreign-owned banks

Some analysts have again expressed serious concern over increasing foreign ownership of banks in Indonesia, arguing this makes it more difficult for Bank Indonesia (the central bank) to guide monetary policies and bank lending for national economic development.

Three Materials Manufacturers Threatened with Bankruptcy

Wednesday, 10 September, 2008 | 12:19 WIBTEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Due to the availability of cheap Chinese products, some Indonesian materials manufacturers are threatened with bankruptcy.According to Ario N Setiantoro, Head of the Nail and Wire Manufacturers Association (Ipaki), one...

Tens of firms tried for dodging Jamsostek scheme

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Tens of companies have been taken to court for not registering their workers with state-owned workers insurance company PT Jamsostek, an official said.Director for Manpower Supervision Affairs of the Directorate General of Manpower, Mudji Handojo, said here on Tuesday that...

Singapore tops in making doing business easy: World Bank

Singapore (ANTARA News/afp) - Singapore kept its top ranking for the third year in a row as the easiest place in the world to do business, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday.The Asian city-state edged out New Zealand and the United States in the "Doing Business 2009" ranking by the...