Indonesian Political, Business & Finance News

Archive: 13 November 2009

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Legal reform will take time

JAKARTA - INDONESIA needs a new state commission to oversee sweeping reform of the judicial system, a process which could take 10-20 years to complete, a top legal expert told Reuters in an interview on Friday.

Ministry to streamline regional spatial planning

The public works ministry will lead an inter departmental team to audit spatial proposals to streamline overlapping policies and plans, tackling the bottlenecks now hampering infrastructure projects.The result of the audit will serve as a basis for the formulation of a presidential decree that...

Jakarta in the dark, Indonesians angry with power company

PLN Electricity Company bosses are blamed. They pledge compensation. Many in East Java and South Sulawesi have to endure hardships. In the last few weeks, power cuts last 10 to 12 hours a day. About 32,000 small- and medium-sized firms experience “monumental” losses.