TEMPO Interactive, Yogyakarta:The Affandi Museum in Yogyakarta is featuring a bamboo products design exposition from December 14 to 17. The products displayed consist of musical instruments, souvenirs and toys created by 21 finalists of the 2009 Awi-awi Mandiri competition.

Unilever announced it was suspending future purchases from palm oil supplier PT Smart.The move followed allegations that the Indonesian company's plantations are contributing to the destruction of high conservation value forests and expanding onto peat lands.

JAKARTA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Indonesia has emergedremarkably strongly from the global economic crisis, but hopesamong investors that the government would quickly push throughreforms have been dented by controversy over corruption.

Most regional administrations in the country are still lagging in the quality of services given to investors, a survey carried out by the Regional Autonomy Watch (KPPOD) reveals.A survey, conducted in 291 regencies and cities across the country, shows that the quality of regional investment support...

China ambassador to Indonesia Zhang Qiyue said Monday the under-discussion free trade agreement (FTA) between ASEAN and China would help both sides to obtain goods and services and attract investment."This FTA will bring many opportunities for both sides.

While local industries are seeking a delay in the full implementation of the free trade agreement (FRA) with China, to start in January, China says this stands little chance of succeeding.The heads of agreement for the Indonesia-China FTA - which forms part of the wider ASEAN-China FTA - was signed...

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has expressed optimism the domestic economy in 2010 will grow at a faster pace than this year`s depending on banks' soundness and credit chanelling.

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