It really is simply hydroponics Iggy.

Originally Posted By: biznews Info minister calls on public to buy Indonesian products........... He said it was time to change the paradigm that quality and branded products were always imported products while domestic products were always poor. (*) But Indonesian stuff usually is the turd of all products. I've lost count of the stuff I've bought and had to fix before I can bloody use it.

JAKARTA: Starting Monday, the Central Jakarta chapter of the National Land Agency will run a mobile service called Larasita, acronym for the Public Service for Land Certification, in an bid to wipe out illegal fees often occurred in land certificate procedures. Central Jakarta Mayor Sylviana Murni admitted that it used to be difficult to get a land certificate.

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Mineral, Coal, and Geothermal director general Bambang Setiawan has said the government has indicated coal businesses paying royalties to the government to be selling coal below the standard price. This has created concerns that the state’s revenues will decrease. The Mineral, Coal, and Geothermal Directorate’s secretary, Wintoro Soelarno, said there were also businesses selling coal at US$5 per ton, which is way below the standard price.

you could use external supports quite easily; guy wires, stakes, etc. also, hydroponic plants typically grow very shallow and fibrous roots. also, they could be "dwarfed" using hard pruning.

Originally Posted By: Polisi Cepek aren't they big huge trees? What medium would the roots be in so it didn't fall over?? They are more shrubby than tree-like, but they can grow quite tall - probably over 3 meters.

aren't they big huge trees? What medium would the roots be in so it didn't fall over??

it would be quite possible. the question is, would it be cost effective.

Hydroponic "guava" eh? Nudge, nudge. Sure as hell no-one's growing a tree that size hydroponically.

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Jakarta, Feb 16 (ANTARA) - Minister of Communications and Information M. Nuh called on the Indonesian public here on Monday to prefer using domestic IT products including computers and laptops. "This is important as a real effort to reduce potential lay-offs," he said. He said there was no other way of reducing lay-offs than increasing consumption and purchase of domestic products including IT products whose market was mostly dominated by imported products.

The Jakarta Post, JAKARTA State owned enterprises (SOEs) have increased capital expenditure up to a total of Rp 146.9 trillion (US$12.49 billion), in order to boost the growth of the real sector which has been slowing down due to the global economic downturn. State minister for state enterprises Sofyan Djalil said on Monday the speeding up of state enterprises investment programs was intended create new jobs and absorb unemployment.

Indonesia expects to secure 65 million tons of coal for the domestic market this year, in part thanks to a planned regulation requiring that coal contractors must sell part of their coal production to the domestic market.

The US$14 billion oil and natural gas mining contractors plan to spend this year on exploration and production development would not generate a lot of new jobs, which we badly needs, as the country is widely predicted to suffer from a steep economic downturn, with a projected growth rate as low as 3.5 percent. Oil and gas mining operations are capital and technology intensive businesses.

TEMPO Interactive, Tangerang: The Tangerang municipality will soon implement hydroponic agro-business to improve its agricultural productivity. "We can develop red rice or guava in limited areas," said Tangerang mayor Wahidin Halim yesterday. According to Wahidin, the Agriculture Office must continue to develop and create innovations in seeking new agricultural products.

BATAM, Indonesia, Feb 17 (Bernama) -- Indonesia is proposing a strong collaboration with Malaysia to increase the number of tourists to both countries. Apart from using tourism incentives such as low price packages, the republic has suggested that the two countries promote each other through banners, brochures, flyers and other tourism materials displayed or distributed at international-level meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (Mice) venues.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia plans to order its nearly four million civil servants to use local products ranging from footwear to heavy machinery to help the economy weather the global financial crisis, officials said on Monday. Officials denied the measures would be protectionist, although the government has come under pressure in an election year to shield domestic industries and limit unemployment.

Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia’s economy expanded at the slowest pace in more than two years as the global recession crimped demand and reduced prices of the nation’s palm oil, rubber and electronics exports. Southeast Asia’s biggest economy grew a less-than-estimated 5.2 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier after gaining a revised 6.4 percent in the previous three months, the statistics bureau said in Jakarta today.

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: To transform Batam into a digital area, PT Telkom yesterday launched the Telkom Internet Center at Batam International port. This center is the first to be launched out of the 50 Internet points scheduled to be installed in Batam. "Money is not the center of everything, Internet has one too," said PT Telkom General Manager for Riau Archipelago, Mulyanta.