JAKARTA, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's ministers of the new cabinet inaugurated on Oct. 22 have elaborated their programs in their first 100 working days, local media reported on Friday. The Minister for Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik has set a target of cutting the "short visa on arrival" service provided at airports and seaports across the country within the first 100 days in office.

Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Pacific Investment Management Co., which oversees $842 billion globally, said there is a “good chance” Indonesia will regain its investment grade debt rating in three to five years. Standard & Poor’s today raised the nation’s outlook to positive.

The new point man: Newly inaugurated Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Radjasa (right) and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati (left) chat with economic ministers (from second left) Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu, State Minister for National Development Planning Armida Alisjahbana, State Minister for Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Syarifuddin Hasan, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Fadel Muhammad, and Transportation Minister Freddy Numberi, after their...

The new energy and ministerial resources minister, Darwin Zahedy Saleh, has set his sights on accelerating the realization of private investment in the sector through various programs and regulations. “Increasing production has been our concern and challenge. We must accelerate investment realization in exploration production and in infrastructure both for storage and distribution,” Darwin said during his inauguration ceremony Thursday.

The Riau Islands province administration has set up a representative office in Japan to market the Batam, Bintan and Karimun (BKK) free-trade zone. Hajime Kinoshita, former president director of PT National Panasonic Gobel Indonesia, has been appointed to lead the representative office in Osaka.

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Around 90 percent of the preparations for the Trade Expo Indonesia (TEI) have been completed. “Physical and construction preparations are still being made. But it is 90 percent done,” said Hesti Indah Kresnarini, the National Export Development Agency chief, yesterday (22/10) at her office. Additionally, the number of participants registering for the event has almost reached the set target. “About 85 percent out of the targeted 770 have registered,” Hesti said.

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: President Susilo Bambnag Yudhoyono reportedly has ordered the energy and mineral Resources Department to manage efforts to reduce energy reliance on coal in the first cabinet meeting of his last term in office. “It's good to know that the focus will be shifted to renewable energy,” Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta said on Friday during the job handover ceremony at the Environment Ministry, without elaborating.