Palm has had a bad rep for being an environmentally unsound boondoggle, but we rarely show the good side of palm. I aim to rectify that.

Investment Coordinating Board chairman Gita Wirjawan and deputy trade minister Mahendra Siregar will brief 150 Indonesian and Australian businesspeople at a two-day conference in Yogyakarta on new business opportunities within bilateral economic ties.

Depok (ANTARA News) - Businessmen are calling for an immediate settlement of the Bibit Samat Rianto and Chandra M Hamzah case, arguing further delays would make them lose their sense of legal certainty. "Businessmen wish the case of Bibit-Chandra to be settled soon," the chairman of the Association of Indonesian Businessmen (Apindo), Sofyan Wanandi, said here on Friday. He said the prolongation of the case had affected businessmen very much.

Banda Aceh (ANTARA News) - Aceh province`s Sabang international seaport which is now under construction is scheduled to commence operations in 2012, the port`s administrator said. "The project is to support the economic growth of the Sabang Free Port and Trade Area," Sabang Port Administrator Teuku Saiful Ahmad said here on Friday. He said the port would have a pier with a length of 423 meters. Ahmad said the total length of the port`s piers was 2,600 meters. The project would cost Rp8 trillion.