New Tax Laws will Impose Tax Penalties of Up to 100% on Those Who Fail to Have an Official Tax Registration Number (NPWP). (9/29/2008) The National News Agency Antara warns that the government is preparing in 2009 to impose tax penalties ranging from 20% to 100% on individuals and corporations found not to have an official tax number (NPWP).

The Indonesian government plans to build five “world class” hospitals catering for rich citizens who spend ­hundreds of millions of ­dollars every year on treatment overseas. Officials say profits from the new facilities will be used to improve healthcare for the tens of millions of Indonesians living below the poverty line. Jakarta estimates that up to 200,000 Indonesians seek treatment abroad with the vast majority going to neighbouring Singapore.

29th September 2008, 13:45 WST Tin and nickel company Stonehenge Metals has abandoned plans to acquire an 85 per cent stake in an Indonesian nickel project, deciding competing claims to the project represented an unacceptable risk to shareholders. The company announced in April that third party exploration permits extended over the Mandiodo nickel project, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, and had been working with its advisers to establish their validity.

Monday 29th September, 2008 (IANS) Jakarta, Sep 29 (Xinhua) Indonesia's manpower and transmigration ministry has accused American energy giant ExxonMobil of illegally employing expatriates through its subsidiary Mobile Cepu Ltd (MCL) at its oil and gas fields in East Java province, media reports said Monday.

Alfian , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sat, 09/27/2008 12:01 PM | Business The government has issued a regulation mandating the use of biofuel by manufacturers, commercial business, fuel retailers and power plant operators. Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro signed the ministerial regulation Friday, saying the new ruling would go into effect Oct. 1, although gradually. "The first three months will be a transition period.

BPMigas, the country's upstream oil and gas regulator, says it is working on ways to boost the role of local supporting companies -- both in the form of service and non-service orders -- in oil and gas projects.

Publicly listed PT Inco, a local unit of Canada-based mining giant Vale Inco is likely to have a hard time ahead as South East Sulawesi governor Nur Alam has threatened to annul the company's operating license, following a series of alleged violations. Nur Alam said recently the company's 64,000-hectare mining activity in the province would be halted, as the company should have completed the construction of a nickel smelter before the 2005 deadline, as stated in the contract.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - North Sumatra earned US$ 128.32 million by exporting 38,233 tons of coffee seeds and instant coffee until August 2008, an official said here Friday. "Arabica coffee still contributed the most or f US$ 116.227 million from the export of f 33,542 tons," head of the Association Of Indonesian Coffee Exporters (AEKI), North Sumatra chapter, Suyanto Husein said.

Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Province (ANTARA News) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla has said that he would help accelerate the construction of Lombok International Airport (BIL) to be located at Tanak Awu, Pujut sub district, Central Lombok district. "Hopefully, the Lombok International Airport could be completed by 2009 and in operation by 2010," Ibu Salim, a spokesman of the NTB administration said here on Sunday.